Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broussonet had also suggested he should put forward proposals for the creation of a veterinary school in England , an idea possibly prompted by the visit to the Alfort school of Arthur Young a few days earlier . |
| 2 | She moved into North Yorkshire a few weeks ago from Mulhous Zoo in France with everyone believing her to be one of only eight Lears Macaws in captivity anywhere . |
| 3 | Standing talking with Mrs McMahon a few minutes later , she saw him capture Feargal . |
| 4 | Tony Visconti : ‘ I heard the finished version of ‘ Space Oddity that David had recorded with Gus Dudgeon a few days later and it was great . |
| 5 | One similar order affected a shellfish farm in Loch Moidart a few miles further north , but that was granted to the Government 's Sea Fish Industry Authority for research . |
| 6 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 7 | Mick Papp got more than he bargained for when he stopped at Strathford 's garage in East Kilbride a few weeks ago . |
| 8 | In Sri Lanka a few years back , shortly before the elections , he wandered through the frightened crowds at political rallies , despite warnings that danger was imminent . |
| 9 | Liddell graduated from Edinburgh University a few days later ( 17 July ) , and enrolled at the Scottish Congregational College in Edinburgh to read divinity for a year , for he had long since decided to devote his life to missionary work , like his parents . |
| 10 | The Security Council session was adjourned on May 26 , but reopened in New York a few days later . |
| 11 | I saw a live TV transmission of Il trovatore from the Metropolitan in New York a few weeks ago that can only have confirmed a lot of people 's worst prejudices about opera — dull production , dull filming , all wrapped round with a certain amount of superstar hype . |
| 12 | The tragic death of Eric Clapton 's five-year-old son , who fell out of an apartment window in New York a few months ago , was not a freak accident . |
| 13 | When the news was broadcast on Teheran radio a few moments later , the city erupted in joy . |
| 14 | After her move from New York to New Mexico a few years ago , Rothenberg became neighbours with another aritst who has strongly influenced her career , Agnes martin . |
| 15 | Can I just quite clearly put on record , and it 's a unanimous decision of the board , we wrote to Edinburgh District a few weeks ago , we 've told them that we will use our best endeavours David , to prosecute the application at Hammerston If we get planning consent and we decide that we ca n't afford a new stadium in total , because of the economic situation , we are aggressively re-looking at the redevelopment of Tynecastle . |
| 16 | The one that was on Jonathan Ross a few weeks ago . |
| 17 | The phones began ringing off the hook at Rugby US a few months before the World Cup began , with callers wanting to know when and where they could see the matches on television . |
| 18 | Sheldon Glashow writing his thesis at Harvard University a few years later , and Abdus Salam and John Ward independently in Imperial College , London , took this similarity seriously . |
| 19 | The last time I saw him was at Walton Studios a few months before they closed down and the was he was doing he said he was unable to get a film to direct , so he was going to be Herbert Wilcox first assistant director on his forthcoming production . |
| 20 | I know he has done some bar work , ( hardly surprising for a pisshead like Harvey ) I remember seeing him in the Three Cups at Stamford Bridge a few years back . |
| 21 | Giant Hercules transport aircraft were touching down at Aldergrove Airport every few minutes . |
| 22 | But Florida has two other prominent international junior training centres — the Rick Macci International Tennis Academy at Grenelefe Resort a few miles from Orlando and Disney World ; and Harry Hopman/Saddlebrook Resort in the town of Wesley Chapel near Tampa . |
| 23 | In 1821 , Mr. Pulley resigned and his successor , Thomas Woolridge , a surgeon of the High Street , was appointed at 50 guineas per annum , to be followed himself by Mr. Blower a few years later at a salary of £63 per annum . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
| 26 | Trainer Ian Duncan , whose stable is on the shores of Lough Neagh , was also scoring his first win in this historic race although he had gone close when Camlin River was beaten by Phillipinetown Lad a few years ago . |
| 27 | Shatila finally collapsed on 27 June 1988 , followed by Bourj el-Brajneh a few days later . |
| 28 | He 's lost a lost of weight since I last saw him , being interviewed by Michael Aspel a few months before . |