Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bedford ..... 6 Wasps ...... 57 BEDFORD have now conceded 117 points in their last two matches and this latest reversal served only to illustrate the plight of a club who a few months ago were celebrating their arrival in the Courage First Division . |
| 2 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
| 3 | On the other hand , there are certainly some Conservatives I could not bring myself to vote for — such as Mr Jack Aspinwall in my neighbouring seat of Wansdyke , who a few years ago was one of an all-party group of MPs who spoke far too warmly about the Ceausescu regime on a visit to Romania , and who lists as his only publication Kindly Sit Down ! , a collection of ‘ after-dinner stories from both Houses of Parliament ’ . |
| 4 | In the bright mid-morning light he looked , standing there , rather commonplace and even ugly — so thought Alice , who a few moments before had been melting in a familiar ecstasy of admiration for him . |
| 5 | One might make the assumption that these are the same son of people who a few years earlier had enjoyed and had been moved by the pageantry of George V 's Jubilee and by George VI 's Coronation . |
| 6 | It had been Lewis himself who a few minutes earlier had taken the call from the Met . |
| 7 | He asked a senior nursing sister , who a few weeks earlier he had told that his wife had left him , for time off and left at 4.30pm . |
| 8 | Joint third prize was won by London-based Allies and Morrison , two Edinburgh University architecture graduates who a few years earlier won the Edinburgh Mound Competition : one short-listed design from Midlothian was that by Duffy and Batt which stood the Glasgow salmon on its tail . |
| 9 | You might find architects who a few years ago were working on major projects , but are now making a living from loft extensions . ’ |
| 10 | Harry Kroto is a chemist at the University , who a few years ago , in collaboration with a colleague and a student , discovered something about interstellar space that has forced scientists to reconsider their views . |
| 11 | The way of life sharedealers aspired to was epitomised in the lifestyle of a Sultan whom a few Tudorbury staff once had the privilege of meeting . |