Example sentences of "have [be] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be assumed then that by 1910 the age range ran from 14 to 43 for certain , and there will most likely have been a few women in their late forties or early fifties . |
| 2 | There may have been a few villages abandoned in the aftermath of the plague , particularly those on poorer soil , as their inhabitants moved to better lands to take up holdings which had fallen vacant . |
| 3 | There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late . |
| 4 | Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier . |
| 5 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 6 | up till the age of , about sixteen , after my birthday , the baby would have been a few weeks old , I thought well , if you 're under sixteen , do n't think about the Pill , they 're not going to give it to you . |
| 7 | However , because of the recent advent of food surpluses , this is n't the same problem as it would have been a few years ago . |
| 8 | This hypothesis does not seem to have a lot going for it because , at the time Matthew — or whoever — was writing , there would still have been a few people around who could say something like I do n't remember any star ! ' ) |