Example sentences of "been [verb] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 2 | A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye . |
| 3 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 4 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 5 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 6 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 7 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 8 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 9 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 10 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 11 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 12 | They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs . |
| 13 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 14 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 15 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 16 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 17 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 18 | When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ? |
| 19 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |
| 20 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 21 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 22 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 23 | Support for this theory , of an unexpected kind , had been provided a few weeks earlier by network television . |
| 24 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 25 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 26 | Hmm well you 've been giving a few answers yourself over the last few weeks . |
| 27 | The idea of light coming only in packets , called quanta , had been introduced a few years earlier by the German physicist Max Planck . |
| 28 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 29 | The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart . |
| 30 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |