Example sentences of "been there a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | She had only been there a few minutes , revelling in the multiplicity of objects and fabrics , when a little maid crept in and indicated shyly that she would unpack . |
2 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
3 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |
4 | Well no , er I 've been there a few times . |
5 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
6 | He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic . |
7 | People would , you know , I mean it I mean that other lass was only there six weeks , Teresa 's only been there a few weeks . |
8 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
9 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |