Example sentences of "have [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sector to the right ( The Quiquillon ) has only a few hard climbs , but its other side , hidden from the village and approached from a parking place reached by driving through a housing estate just before the village , has many fine , steep routes , often with three pitches , at all standards . |
| 2 | The infamous Berlin Wall now has only a few vestiges remaining . |
| 3 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 4 | This ammonite has only a few strong ribs , with a number of small tubercles in addition . |
| 5 | In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females . |
| 6 | Any honest assessment of his chances of pulling this off should start from the realisation that he has only a few rusty tools at his disposal . |
| 7 | Lord Beaverbrook has only a few weeks to sort out his finances . |
| 8 | I think that er Mr Gorbachev has er seen that Mr Bush has only a few firmly held points of view , I mean that 's one of the criticisms of George Bush that he does seem to have only a few firmly held points of view on emerging democracies in Eastern and Central Europe , but having said that , er I think he really does believe that a unified Germany in NATO is a key part of stability in that region , and I think that Mr Gorbachev recognises that on this one Mr Bush is not er capable of being moved . |
| 9 | The answer to this question has not a few repercussions in the social world that sociologists study — often for purely secular reasons . |
| 10 | She earns between $800 and $1,000 a month , lives in one furnished room , and has just a few possessions of her own . |
| 11 | Vargas Llosa has quite a few fine novels behind him but this is the most directly political . |
| 12 | Isobel has quite a few ah mm picture book . |
| 13 | I thought he 'd just a few girls . |
| 14 | With the addition of the large numbers of children and teenagers who have had only a few years of schooling , rates of illiteracy of well over 50 per cent seem entirely credible ( see Chapter 16 ) . |
| 15 | She sweetly punctuated every pause with ‘ Actually , we have had quite a few calls saying the same thing , ’ and ‘ Actually , I must say , I do rather agree with you . ’ |
| 16 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 17 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 18 | If I can just join in the Scum-bashing here , am I the only person that thinks Sharpe is the most over-rated piece of crap ever to have pulled on a red shirt ( and they 've had quite a few ) ? |
| 19 | We have had quite a few trainees , youth trainees in garden centres , and golf courses , which surprised me , but golf courses apparently could use quite a lot of people . |
| 20 | I 've had quite a few patients . |
| 21 | Should think they 've had quite a few . |
| 22 | I 've had quite a few . |
| 23 | I 've I 've had quite a few nicknames . |
| 24 | because they might have only a few , whereas the others have got thousands on them . |
| 25 | South of Loch Hourn is the wilderness of Knoydart known as the Rough Bounds , a region entirely without motor roads and having only a few lonely and unfrequented tracks through the mountain fastnesses . |
| 26 | The memoirs are extremely detailed , yet Hickey states that he wrote them almost entirely from memory , having only a few documents available to him and those mostly from his later years . |
| 27 | The Bill 's interesting , I think , because they do have quite a few isolated episodes , like that issue of wife battering , which can be quite progressive . |
| 28 | So do you have quite a few famous connections round here ? |
| 29 | You see , but he did n't have a Federation of Buil , Master Builders , but whether , I mean this chap must have quite a few , he did n't say it , but |
| 30 | This year was unusual in having quite a few cool , cloudy days and some rain , though the final week was sunny and quite hot . |