Example sentences of "been [adv] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Been on quite a few weeks |
| 2 | So we 've been down there a few times but I said to you did n't I ? |
| 3 | K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months . |
| 4 | He looked round them all as though none of them afforded him any surprise , though two of them did not belong here , and to his certain knowledge had been elsewhere only a short time ago . |
| 5 | Obviously we believe we can make up the time on roads we have been over quite a few times . ’ |
| 6 | Chatham described them , in November 1777 , as ‘ the nursery and basis of our naval power ’ , for they had been not merely a dependable source of tar and timber , especially for masts , but of seamen ; the outbreak of hostilities meant that 18,000 American sailors were lost overnight to the British crown . |
| 7 | The consequence of this progressive decline in popularity has been not only a sustained attack on what are perceived as the inadequacies of communist ideology and the Soviet system itself in the 1980s ( and there is no more iconoclastic an exponent of this form of criticism than Nizan 's own grandson , Emmanuel Todd ) , but more specifically , a tendency to overplay the critically dissident aspects of Nizan 's life and work , and to pass over in silence the more constructive , orthodox communist slant of his writings . |
| 8 | Peach pine , and when we took the porch down which had been up nearly a hundred years |
| 9 | She 's been up there a long time has n't she ? |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , ’ he breathed , ‘ we have been here only a few days . |
| 11 | ‘ Silas said you 'd been here only a few days . ’ |
| 12 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 13 | It had been Bruce Davidson who had interviewed Yeo before , when Angela Morgan had still been officially only a Missing Person and Peter Yeo , as her employer , one of the obvious people to talk to about where she might be . |
| 14 | I mean he 's been round here a few times , |
| 15 | She 's been round here a few times since her husband been away asking how I am . |
| 16 | It should have been very much a psychological Sunday . |