Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He left Darlington Hockey Club for Norton a few seasons ago to improve his standard of play and his new club is currently lying fourth in the prestigious northern premier league .
2 Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park .
3 He wants to keep the Government 's proposals for the future of the industry a deep and dark secret — and so they remained until the Rothschild report saw the light of day a few weeks ago .
4 Television 's ‘ Hammer ’ found himself in the slammer when he tried smuggling cocaine into Britain a few years back .
5 The two men stood side by side a few yards in from the edge of the treeline , examining the layout of the ground between them and the house .
6 William , who has been on invalidity benefit since the accident , accepted a settlement of £70,000 a few days before the case started .
7 We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’
8 Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing .
9 Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing .
10 One critic , reviewing Field of Dreams a few years ago , claimed Hollywood was now besotted with the family .
11 Attrition , bribery and plain common sense brought about the fall of Kyrenia a few weeks after Nicholas returned there , and although Carlotta , kept in ignorance , might have been devastated by the news , it held no surprises for the people of Cyprus .
12 The big match is at Coundon Road , where Hereford , who took on the might of Bath a few seasons ago try to kill the giants of Coventry .
13 Mind you , I was in a pub in Manchester a few months ago when Eric Le Prat walked in , but that 's a different story …
14 Mind you , I was in a pub in Manchester a few months ago when Eric Le Prat walked in , but that 's a different story …
15 Borg 's disappearance from top tennis , like Harold Wilson 's withdrawal from government a few years before , constitutes one of the great resignation puzzles of modern times .
16 He was one of the three walking brothers who had stopped their walk to admire the May-Day dance in Marlott a few years before .
17 ‘ I do , ’ I said , ‘ in my own ward and when I can special a patient right through , as I did my classic pneumonia girl in Hope a few weeks ago .
18 In fact I sat next to her at a lunch in Abingdon a few years ago , and erm this image one got of her of not being a listener is totally untrue erm every time she turned to me it was to listen to what I had to say .
19 In the View from the Hotel Mistral , executed on Braque 's return to Paris a few months later , the influence of Cézanne is even more marked .
20 Kitty moved from hut to hut every few years .
21 ‘ Was n't he involved in some sort of scandal a few years ago ? ’
22 Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle .
23 For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions .
24 Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra .
25 That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later .
26 On a Unix panel at the Etre conference in Vienna a few days ago , Microsoft vice president Steve Ballmer capped a loud , argumentative , personally unattractive defence of NT by admitting it was going to be ‘ hard to sell . ’
27 Apparently he was involved in an accident at work a few days ago , went to his local casualty department who could n't actually detect any break and treated it as a severe sprain . ’
28 We had planned this after a brief look into Llanberis a few weeks previously .
29 The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert .
30 Everyone engaged on an escape scheme enjoyed the furtiveness necessary for good security : the concealment of tell-tale evidence under coats a few feet away from unsuspecting sentries , the private knowledge kept from other members of the hut .
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