Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun prp] a few [noun pl] " 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 | Television 's ‘ Hammer ’ found himself in the slammer when he tried smuggling cocaine into Britain a few years back . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But friends continued to die : Jo Schlesser at Rouen a few months later . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later . |
| 19 | On a Unix panel at the Etre conference in Vienna a few days ago , Microsoft vice president Steve Ballmer capped a loud , argumentative , personally unattractive defence of NT by admitting it was going to be ‘ hard to sell . ’ |
| 20 | We had planned this after a brief look into Llanberis a few weeks previously . |
| 21 | The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert . |
| 22 | His body had now completely relaxed after his frantic efforts with Molly a few minutes before . |
| 23 | At a business seminar in Australia a few years ago , Kerry Packer described his method of obtaining loans : ‘ Make sure you get the bankers to come to your office . |
| 24 | ‘ Stein crossed the border near Echternach in Luxembourg a few hours ago . |
| 25 | And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier . |
| 26 | The execution of a provo murder gang in Coagh a few months ago brought about the usual uproar from the republican politicians . |
| 27 | On July 4 Gandhi promoted a number of junior ministers ( see pp. 36027-28 for previous portfolios ) ; D. L. Baitha was promoted to Minister of State for Defence Production replacing Chintamani Panigraphi who had been appointed Governor of Manipur a few days earlier [ see above ] ; Mahavir Prasad became Minister of State for Mines ; P. Namgyal became Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals and Petrochemicals ; Sumati Oraon became Minister of State for Environment and Forests ; Radhakrishna Malaviya became Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs ; Saroj Khaparde was shifted from Minister of State for Health to Textiles ; Giridhar Gomango was given independent charge of the Communications Ministry ( following the death of the Communications Minister in May — see p. 36657 ) ; and Rafiq Alam became Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare ( independent charge ) , a post which had been vacant since the January appointment of Moti Lal Vora as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh . |
| 28 | We picked these up on a visit we made to the island of Haiti a few years ago , and they 've become part of our Christmas celebrations ever since . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Hill won £6,000 with Littlewoods a few years ago . |
| 30 | De Gaulle 's argument against Mendès-France was essentially the same that he had used against Eisenhower in Strasbourg a few months earlier : circumstances matter . |