Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The team included the Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thomson playing one of his last games for Scotland a few months before his tragic death .
2 The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert .
3 So if doctors find concentrations of HPD a few days after the injection , they know there are tumours there .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Subsequent to the date of the surrender , according to local farmers , many Croats were machine gunned in a small valley near Poljana a few miles across the border from Bleiburg inside Yugoslavia .
7 But a tape , on which she recorded a conversation she had with Maurice a few weeks before her death .
8 When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear .
9 ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused .
10 The Queen Mother took the reverse stoically , writing to Cazalet a few days after the Grand National : ‘ We will not be done in by this , and will just keep on trying . ’
11 The Jungle Giants nursery is at Wigmore a few miles from the show garden .
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