Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] previously " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Dustin had eaten a few hours previously , the anaesthetist had to insert a tube in his mouth to stop him choking on his own vomit . |
| 2 | A few hours previously he had reportedly made a videotape recording , accusing people of wanting to kill him . |
| 3 | Naturally such a prolonged absence was a little worrying , especially in view of , well , the circumstances ; and in fact an anxious Ashenden had rung Kidlington a few minutes previously , just in case the police knew anything . |
| 4 | She had stopped undertaking her usual tasks within the home , was eating very little and had taken to her bed a few days previously and had not re-emerged . |
| 5 | As Mr Cardinal had indicated , M. Dupont had not arrived in a good temper ; I can not recall now all the various things that had upset him since his arrival in England a few days previously , but in particular he had obtained some painful sores on his feet while sightseeing around London and these , he feared , were growing septic . |
| 6 | The skins taunted the police with what had happened at the Brixton riots a few days previously . |
| 7 | A few days previously I had paid a quick visit to Bourn , which had not yet closed down , to say goodbye to those of my acquaintances who were still there , and to find out what had happened to Rosemary . |
| 8 | The remarkable thing about this cinematic treat was the close comparison it bore to the scene at Stonethwaite campsite a few days previously . |
| 9 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 10 | The Estwicks were in Hong Kong , Giles having been required to visit the head office of one of their major commercial sponsors to finalise the details of a competition the radio station was shortly due to run for them , and Cavell Fielding had also departed for the Crown Colony a few days previously , telling Maria that whether she returned depended on Luke 's instructions . |
| 11 | As it happened I had heard a very similar point being put to a group of Belfast managers from top insurance companies a few days previously . |
| 12 | The fifth member , Salvador Sánchez , had returned a few days previously . |
| 13 | ‘ The one which detonated at Lisnaskea in my constituency just a few days ago was one of many stolen in Dublin a few days previously , ’ said Mr Maginnis . |
| 14 | They 'd had a , he had to give evidence he said , you know because , I mean he said a few days previously so they , financial problems as loaded as the family are nobody come to the rescue ! |
| 15 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
| 16 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |
| 17 | All of which pushed THe Smiths surprisingly above the more ‘ instant ’ Frankie Goes To Hollywood and implied that their following touched the size of The Jam 's a few years previously . |
| 18 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |
| 19 | The violent , dangerous and delinquent youth of the magistrates and NAS were also present in the statements of individual Chief Constables and representatives of the Police Federation who articulated publicly their own theories on the causes of crime in a manner which would have been thought unthinkable a few years previously . |
| 20 | More to the point , she had travelled to Italy a few years previously while in the employment of Sir Charles B. |
| 21 | Akroyd Stuart was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1901 , but a few years previously he had emigrated to Australia , where he involved himself in the design and manufacture of the Akroyd patent down-draught gas producer . |
| 22 | A few years previously , Melissa had been in the Cévennes on a motoring holiday with her parents-in-law . |
| 23 | A few years previously thousands would have attended . |
| 24 | As short a time as a few weeks previously she had been , when not bored , repelled by his music . |
| 25 | A man who may be described as a little eccentric , he suffers from angina , and only a few weeks previously had taken ill with an attack while on holiday in Majorca . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Like the one she 'd had on her leg a few weeks previously . |
| 28 | We had planned this after a brief look into Llanberis a few weeks previously . |
| 29 | She discovered the truth about their petnames a few weeks previously when Camilla was taken ill . |
| 30 | The group itself is usually already perceived by this time as a source of comfort , strength , wisdom and support even though only a few weeks previously all its members were lost in active addictive disease . |