Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun prp] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Broussonet had also suggested he should put forward proposals for the creation of a veterinary school in England , an idea possibly prompted by the visit to the Alfort school of Arthur Young a few days earlier . |
2 | She moved into North Yorkshire a few weeks ago from Mulhous Zoo in France with everyone believing her to be one of only eight Lears Macaws in captivity anywhere . |
3 | Standing talking with Mrs McMahon a few minutes later , she saw him capture Feargal . |
4 | Tony Visconti : ‘ I heard the finished version of ‘ Space Oddity that David had recorded with Gus Dudgeon a few days later and it was great . |
5 | One similar order affected a shellfish farm in Loch Moidart a few miles further north , but that was granted to the Government 's Sea Fish Industry Authority for research . |
6 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
7 | Mick Papp got more than he bargained for when he stopped at Strathford 's garage in East Kilbride a few weeks ago . |
8 | In Sri Lanka a few years back , shortly before the elections , he wandered through the frightened crowds at political rallies , despite warnings that danger was imminent . |
9 | But that led him to be grilled by detectives for two hours because he unwittingly bought a cabinet stolen from an old lady in North Oxford a few days before . |
10 | The Security Council session was adjourned on May 26 , but reopened in New York a few days later . |
11 | I saw a live TV transmission of Il trovatore from the Metropolitan in New York a few weeks ago that can only have confirmed a lot of people 's worst prejudices about opera — dull production , dull filming , all wrapped round with a certain amount of superstar hype . |
12 | The tragic death of Eric Clapton 's five-year-old son , who fell out of an apartment window in New York a few months ago , was not a freak accident . |
13 | After her move from New York to New Mexico a few years ago , Rothenberg became neighbours with another aritst who has strongly influenced her career , Agnes martin . |
14 | The one that was on Jonathan Ross a few weeks ago . |
15 | The phones began ringing off the hook at Rugby US a few months before the World Cup began , with callers wanting to know when and where they could see the matches on television . |
16 | I know he has done some bar work , ( hardly surprising for a pisshead like Harvey ) I remember seeing him in the Three Cups at Stamford Bridge a few years back . |
17 | If the sale had gone ahead , Rio Tinto would have developed Wheal Concord , refining its ore in the modern processing plant at Wheal Jane a few kilometres away . |
18 | In 1821 , Mr. Pulley resigned and his successor , Thomas Woolridge , a surgeon of the High Street , was appointed at 50 guineas per annum , to be followed himself by Mr. Blower a few years later at a salary of £63 per annum . |
19 | Again un-named as yet , it has a provisional grading of E8 6c , and supersedes a pitch climbed by Grant Farquhar a few weeks previously , which finished up the top section of Lord of the Flies . |
20 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
21 | Shatila finally collapsed on 27 June 1988 , followed by Bourj el-Brajneh a few days later . |
22 | He 's lost a lost of weight since I last saw him , being interviewed by Michael Aspel a few months before . |