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

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1 So if doctors find concentrations of HPD a few days after the injection , they know there are tumours there .
2 Since assuming the duties of senator a few months ago , Mr Krueger has drawn attention to himself by campaigning with Larry Hagman , who played J.R .
3 With little desire to talk , she walked beside Tom to his car — the sports car this time , as he had exchanged keys with Bill a few minutes ago .
4 Both speakers gave papers on the employment of women in printing , and such local interest was aroused that they were asked to repeat their lectures in Edinburgh a few days later .
5 It 's not so bad in Division Four , and when the opportunity came up at Ards , I jumped at it , ’ said Armstrong , who captained and coached Bangor before going back to end his playing days at Collegians a few seasons ago .
6 His body had now completely relaxed after his frantic efforts with Molly a few minutes before .
7 And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier .
8 Then there were the obituaries for Gottwald a few weeks later .
9 The team included the Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thomson playing one of his last games for Scotland a few months before his tragic death .
10 He remembered how she had reluctantly sat down to play him and a couple of other men at poker a few years before .
11 Close friendships with girls a few years older or younger than oneself were actively discouraged , and it seemed to us that to be seen in earnest conversation with a girl who belonged neither to one 's own year or one 's own house was tantamount to admitting that one was engaged in a lesbian liaison .
12 He looked from the overcoat to the grimy , torn green flannels and the scuffed brown shoes laced with uneven lengths of string , then felt in his pocket for the cigarettes he had bummed off a group of Swedish students in Bonn a few days earlier .
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