Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] a few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He left Darlington Hockey Club for Norton a few seasons ago to improve his standard of play and his new club is currently lying fourth in the prestigious northern premier league .
2 So if doctors find concentrations of HPD a few days after the injection , they know there are tumours there .
3 Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park .
4 He wants to keep the Government 's proposals for the future of the industry a deep and dark secret — and so they remained until the Rothschild report saw the light of day a few weeks ago .
5 Television 's ‘ Hammer ’ found himself in the slammer when he tried smuggling cocaine into Britain a few years back .
6 The two men stood side by side a few yards in from the edge of the treeline , examining the layout of the ground between them and the house .
7 William , who has been on invalidity benefit since the accident , accepted a settlement of £70,000 a few days before the case started .
8 It also contributed to a shift in opinion at the Ministry of Education away from the curtailment or freezing of grant towards modest and flexible expansion — and the Eastern District was able to take advantage of the new grant regulations which followed the Report in 1955 to achieve a level of aid a few percentage points higher than the 75% hitherto regarded as standard .
9 We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’
10 Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing .
11 Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing .
12 One critic , reviewing Field of Dreams a few years ago , claimed Hollywood was now besotted with the family .
13 Since assuming the duties of senator a few months ago , Mr Krueger has drawn attention to himself by campaigning with Larry Hagman , who played J.R .
14 Attrition , bribery and plain common sense brought about the fall of Kyrenia a few weeks after Nicholas returned there , and although Carlotta , kept in ignorance , might have been devastated by the news , it held no surprises for the people of Cyprus .
15 The big match is at Coundon Road , where Hereford , who took on the might of Bath a few seasons ago try to kill the giants of Coventry .
16 With little desire to talk , she walked beside Tom to his car — the sports car this time , as he had exchanged keys with Bill a few minutes ago .
17 Mind you , I was in a pub in Manchester a few months ago when Eric Le Prat walked in , but that 's a different story …
18 Mind you , I was in a pub in Manchester a few months ago when Eric Le Prat walked in , but that 's a different story …
19 Borg 's disappearance from top tennis , like Harold Wilson 's withdrawal from government a few years before , constitutes one of the great resignation puzzles of modern times .
20 He was one of the three walking brothers who had stopped their walk to admire the May-Day dance in Marlott a few years before .
21 ‘ I do , ’ I said , ‘ in my own ward and when I can special a patient right through , as I did my classic pneumonia girl in Hope a few weeks ago .
22 In fact I sat next to her at a lunch in Abingdon a few years ago , and erm this image one got of her of not being a listener is totally untrue erm every time she turned to me it was to listen to what I had to say .
23 Both speakers gave papers on the employment of women in printing , and such local interest was aroused that they were asked to repeat their lectures in Edinburgh a few days later .
24 In the View from the Hotel Mistral , executed on Braque 's return to Paris a few months later , the influence of Cézanne is even more marked .
25 One Steiff teddy fetched £55,000 at auction a few years ago , although Stonegate 's reproduction of it is somewhat more sensible priced at £175 .
26 But friends continued to die : Jo Schlesser at Rouen a few months later .
27 ‘ Was n't he involved in some sort of scandal a few years ago ? ’
28 Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle .
29 For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions .
30 Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra .
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