Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our route , although a time-saver , took us near Iraq — over the area that became the battlefield for Desert Storm a few months later . |
| 2 | In referring to the non-collection rates of community charge a few weeks ago , Councillor said , the outstanding debt will cripple essential services and I dread to think what effect it will have on our schools , social services and the state of the streets . |
| 3 | The managers refused to believe the word of a physicist who inspected the plant , and who was to die of radiation sickness a few weeks later . |
| 4 | Submerged plants rarely attract attention except when they are a nuisance as in the rotting infestation of sea lettuce a few years ago that produced enough hydrogen sulphide gas to discolour housepaint and tarnish silverware in the unfortunate town of Deale , in Maryland . |
| 5 | ‘ Linfield were drawn against a better team than the one we defeated — and I know from playing in Cyprus with Shamrock Rovers a few years back that Bangor were up against it , too . |
| 6 | ‘ Linfield were drawn against a better team than the one we defeated — and I know from playing in Cyprus with Shamrock Rovers a few years back that Bangor were up against it , too . |
| 7 | The screws that they used in the workshop came in plastic bags a few inches square . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A wren scrabbled in leaf litter a few yards away : tiny , rufous-brown , pert tailed . |
| 10 | Geoff , an old fashioned sort of polliss , retired on health grounds a few years back and we still have n't bought him a pint . |
| 11 | The media commentator Michael Leapman , writing in the Independent on Sunday , observed that ‘ she has not usually done well in other roles … her Panorama programme on TV violence a few years ago was not judged a critical success . ’ |
| 12 | Queen 's student Donnelly excelled at Lurgan and won his first Northern Ireland Cross Country title a few weeks ago , but is still not fully fit , although he could be by the time of the Belfast race . |
| 13 | He had his suede shoes brushed over with a wire brush by the boot-black outside the General Post Office and arrived at Exchange station a few minutes before ten o'clock . |
| 14 | 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 . |