Example sentences of "[be] there [art] few " in BNC.

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1 He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic .
2 He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past .
3 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 .
4 After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her .
8 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 .
9 Well no , er I 've been there a few times .
10 I remember there was a period when no-one was speaking to anyone and I recall going to the island of Mustique and being there a few weeks just before the final split .
11 I was there a few days and then me and me friends barricaded ourselves in a cell and we would n't come out because there was nowt to do .
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