Example sentences of "has a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you make a complete mess of it , the model only has a few inches to fall . |
| 2 | Typically , the net contains many nodes , but each node only has a few inputs : N is quite small . |
| 3 | His wife , played by Greta Scacchi , has a few secrets of her own . |
| 4 | Brenda reckons having her own bike has a few benefits . |
| 5 | Such excitements are rare ; The Hague has a few clubs and theatres and it will soon have its own ballet company , but for the most part the Hagenaars , as the residents are known , spend their evenings at home and retire at a respectable hour . |
| 6 | Simon Rundell , who works in one of the London hospitals threatened with closure , has a few home truths for the health secretary |
| 7 | The investor who has a few privatisation shares and wants to extend a portfolio without paying for advice does have a cheap alternative to discretionary portfolio management . |
| 8 | The team has a few ifs and buts about it . |
| 9 | ‘ And I think that if he has a few problems at Liverpool at first , he 'll hang on and try and make things work . |
| 10 | It has a few houses and shops , even a post office . |
| 11 | Providing it does not clog filter intakes , it has a few things going for it : it can act as a curb on nitrate and phosphate levels , provide shelter for any overlooked fry and even supplement the fish 's diet in holiday periods . |
| 12 | While Vadinamia will never be a rival to any of the known holiday-resort worlds , it has a few things to offer by way of amusement . |
| 13 | So I would agree with what Tom said on the sort of , things , yeah , you know , knock that together , we 've got that on one piece of paper already that 's about two years out of date , well , was up to date two years ago , which I could probably dig out for you , and then erm we 've got , we can even do it from a European sort of view point , which just has a few things there that need taking up . |
| 14 | There are up to 360 incinerators working abroad and Britain also has a few systems . |
| 15 | It is now the moose-hunting season — not a safe time to be creeping through the woods on a wild wolf chase , and so unless someone shoots her , Ylva has a few weeks grace . |
| 16 | The Conceicao programme has a few hospital beds but its main functions are to run community health centres in favelas and a large primary care clinic in the main hospital which caters for the local population . |
| 17 | That Shelford has a few doubters to disprove is cold comfort to Cardiff , who have had an unconvincing start to the season and whose main hope is to catch the tourists either cold or rusty after a lay-off which for most has lasted all of a fortnight . |
| 18 | Jobson is a centre back … highly rated ( I ca nt comment cos I have nt seen too much of him ) Bardsley is a Right back … again highly rated … on the fringe of an England place ( has a few caps ) . |
| 19 | Now the Beaconsfield trio finally release a follow-up on the Creation label — ‘ Philly ’ , which has a few string sounds that may have been influenced by ( or stolen from ) old Philadelphia International disco classics , but which otherwise is a solid gold indie dance tune . |
| 20 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 21 | For the Nineties , it 's safe to predict that the nostalgia boom has a few years left to run , that Neneh Cherry , Roland Gift and Terence Trent D'Arby will become as big as they want to be , and that Bobby Brown 's crafty commercialisation of rap , soul and a vast ego will give Wacko a run for his money quite soon . |
| 22 | He has a few years on me — maybe ten — and sometimes he treats me like the son he never had . |
| 23 | For all its strengths , the game has a few flaws — you ca n't drop objects or give them to another character . |
| 24 | He has a few suggestions for those tempted to try aerial photography . |
| 25 | JOHN CRIPPS has a few suggestions which you might not have thought of . |
| 26 | With or without management , Gatfield has a few words of warning for up-and-coming hopefuls determined to make an impression on record company A&R people . |
| 27 | Neither speaks French or German but one has a few words of English , so he sits in the front . |
| 28 | He has a few swigs and then . |
| 29 | And you know i if a chil a child is bruised , very often erm you know if it it especially with you know , maybe a mother who has a few children to look after , and she 's on her own twenty four hours a day with them . |
| 30 | For he has a few ideas of his own . |