Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun prp] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | What is the true story of the Japanese businessman who returned a stolen Impressionist painting to France and was decorated for it by President Mitterrand on the occasion of the reopening of the Louvre a few years ago ? |
2 | Do n't laugh , but I had a dream that Leeds beat Sunderland 7–0 in the return of the CCC a few days ago . |
3 | A painting by Brueghel the elder was lifted from the Courtauld a few years back . |
4 | Then he makes a lightning trip back on Concorde for Petit Loup in the Arc a few hours later . |
5 | When I was in college in the States a few years back , we read about the pre-feminist lives of the middle-class young women in the 50s and early 60s . |
6 | On a trip to the Dolomites a few years ago , four of us brought three different stoves between us rashly thinking we had all angles covered . |
7 | In May 1940 Winchester became adjutant , RE , in 5 Indian Division , with which he went to the Sudan a few months later on active service . |
8 | Fortunately she had an order for a full-length wool coat and dress , and worked in happy isolation in the small room at the back of the shop , her mind lingering on the implication of Penry 's invitation as her fingers flew independently to finish the order for a customer due to return to the States a few days later . |