Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the hon. Gentleman will think back to days gone by , he will remember that such questions have been perennial in the few weeks before a general election . |
| 2 | Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so |
| 3 | If I remember right , first home matches have been similar for a few years now . |
| 4 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 6 | Some take a little longer to persuade than others , and , like many of my colleagues , I have been involved in a few " Sweeny " type incidents ashore and afloat . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few preliminary meetings so far to pick a training squad , and I 've also got involved in the training sessions themselves . |
| 8 | N. American Star has been available for a few years here in the UK . |
| 9 | Moreover , because of the first-past-the-post electoral system and the predominantly two-party system , it has been one of the few parties of the left able to form a government on its own . |
| 10 | If their sales had been included , it would have been one of the few wholly independent records to reach the Top 40 . |
| 11 | Many mothers were upset because they feared for the safety of their children — and because , for numerous women , control over young people had been one of the few ways to exercise power in society . |
| 12 | Hackney-born Ehiogu , who has won seven Under-21 caps , has been one of the few successes in a disappointing England side this season . |
| 13 | He has achieved his success through his own talent , the support of his parents , and the skill and guidance of David Lloyd , the fiercely independent former British Davis Cup player whose mushrooming tennis centres have been one of the few success stories in British tennis in the last decade . |
| 14 | Amory , a likeable and popular man , had been one of the few Conservative MP 's to be active in the campaign to end capital punishment in the late 1940s . |
| 15 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 16 | Motability has been one of the few established successes of a mixed economy . |
| 17 | Jahanbini had been one of the few people to have known for almost a month that they were going to leave Iran . |
| 18 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 19 | She 'd been one of the few sober people at Dave 's , in spite of the home-brewed beer . |
| 20 | He was on the centre-right of the party , had been one of the few Democrat leaders to endorse the use of military force against Iraq prior to the launching of the Gulf War , and was a native of the South — where the party had to improve its electoral showing in order to win the presidency . |
| 21 | It had been one of the few mistakes Gould had ever made . |
| 22 | Apart from a cinema , there were no real forms of entertainment ; mixing with Servicemen 's wives would have been one of the few ways of passing the days . |
| 23 | ( The General Register Office in Edinburgh has been aware of the few errors in the Scottish data ) . |
| 24 | Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families . |
| 25 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |