Example sentences of "we have only had " in BNC.

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1 We 'd only had a few dates .
2 ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’
3 We 'd only had it a short time but it was very tame and friendly .
4 No we 'd only had it three or four years when we went to Malton and Pam said then ooh if ever you get rid of this just let me know , it 's just right for me cos she 's only short is n't she ?
5 and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous
6 We 've only had a couple of abusive ones , and a couple of nasty telephone calls . ’
7 We 've only had one night when she cried a lot — luckily it was n't the night before a game . ’
8 Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier .
9 We 've only had one bit of trouble once , and that was when we first moved on .
10 Erm we 've only had a a glimpse really of probability .
11 We 've only had experience of two — that 's where the effect continues to build , continues to escalate , with continuous Darkfall strikes .
12 But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year .
13 Sir we 've only had this for I think for three minutes before the start of the erm of of this erm session , I 'm just wondering if we could have ten minutes to read it ?
14 We 've only had two reports but we do have another unconfirmed report of a third siting of this man wihtin the last week .
15 I think we 've only had one for ages and ages .
16 I mean it says it lasts up to two years , we 've only had it on there a year
17 So far we 've only had particular doctors using it to run it in , as it were , but in the very near future we hope that all of the doctors in the accident department will be using this system .
18 ‘ Well , we 've only had twelve cases of salmonella in the last twenty-five years , and this is very unusual , ’ and so on and so forth .
19 Over such a period , as has already been apparent with Polaris , if we had only had three , we should not have been able to maintain that programme .
20 They seem delighted and although so far we have only had telephone contact , I feel sure they will be able to drive their ‘ new ’ acquisition for many years to come .
21 There are many possible causes of trade cycles and we have only had time to consider some of the major ones in this chapter .
22 Principal environmental officer , Bernard Cribbs : ‘ We used to get lots complaints about dog packs but this year we have only had about two which shows how effective the scheme has been . ’
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