Example sentences of "[adv] been [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 've only been upstairs a short while . " |
| 2 | What we 're trying to do is say look , you are senior people in this company because although you 've only been here a short period of time , but you 're still very senior people . |
| 3 | ‘ I moved here in September so I have only been here a short time and we have had a lot of changes in the past because of the moves Eric has made , ’ she says . |
| 4 | If early on you learn phrases like " I am learning your language " , " I have only been here a short time " , " I did n't understand what you said " , and " Please repeat it more slowly " , you will at least be able to make a sensible response to anything said to you . |
| 5 | I 've only been here a little while , looking after Aunt — ’ |
| 6 | You 've only been here a few days . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't seen either of them but I 've only been back a little while , ’ replied Melissa . |
| 11 | ‘ They had only been together a few weeks , ’ said Charlotte 's father , nightclub owner Henry Turtle , 47 . |
| 12 | Before 1914 , war propaganda had not been traditionally a British trait and the authorities leaned to use it following the examples of the French and Germans . |
| 13 | Before 1914 , war propaganda had not been traditionally a British trait and the authorities leaned to use it following the examples of the French and Germans . |
| 14 | But it could not have happened to anyone else , she was almost forgetting that this had not been exactly a freak accident in the way that everyone thought . |
| 15 | ‘ Girl has not been here a few nights . |
| 16 | not been there a long time |
| 17 | They have always been notable sources of reference for serious scholars , of course , and there have always been just a few teachers and parents who have made it their business , over the years , to arrange educational visits both for themselves and for schoolchildren . |
| 18 | Work by Dolores Piperno , at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama , shows that maize has indeed been around a long time . |