Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Altogether he planted on the slopes of Windermere over a million trees , ‘ Curwen 's Woods ’ . ’ |
| 2 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 3 | When in 1967 E. R. Leach made exactly the same point on the BBC , there was a national uproar with bishops and pundits of all kinds fulminating in the newspapers against the impiety of the idea , in much the same way that they had done against Engels almost a hundred years before . |
| 4 | With Dennis just a few feet away on the stairs , it was the sexual equivalent of Russian roulette . |
| 5 | Since the Bölkow is designed to go places — Nigel had returned from Cannes only a few days before my flight — this is a most useful addition allowing the relaxed study of maps , approach plates etc , without the constant monitoring of the aeroplane . |
| 6 | Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier . |
| 7 | She handed me the sheet of grey paper with its synoptic chart which had been transmitted from Florida just a few moments before . |
| 8 | The firm began production in Abingdon over a hundred years ago . |
| 9 | It is very strange to find , after wearing thick overcoats in Peking only a few weeks ago , that we are in the middle of hot summer weather ( by British standards ) here . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend will have welcomed the substantial arms and explosives finds in Belfast just a few weeks ago . |
| 11 | It was not likely that a man who had come to Germany only a few weeks before would be given carte blanche to say what he liked . |
| 12 | Watch out for Val Piriou , a young French designer who came to England just a few years ago unable to speak English . |
| 13 | But of Hippys ' work on Italy only a few quotations survive , and these are about foundation myths of places , or physical curiosities . |
| 14 | But it so happens that we can compare the situation during the years 1070 to 1123 with a similar train of events at Canterbury just a hundred years later . |