Example sentences of "[noun prp] a few [noun pl] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She married a chap called Parkes a few years back but he went off and left her . |
| 2 | ‘ I was in Florida a few weeks ago and heard an album cut at my studios a few years ago by the Diamond Accordion Band being played on a pub juke box . |
| 3 | He had learned from watching Rupert a few minutes before that the quicker you answered the quicker you were released . |
| 4 | ‘ We took the kids out in Windsor a few nights ago and after the meal Ally sang , ‘ It 's now or never ’ to me by the castle . |
| 5 | I was in China a few years ago and was fascinated to discover there was one bicycle for every thirty Chinese , and you see they 're not going to be distributed very equally are they ? |
| 6 | More to the point , she had travelled to Italy a few years previously while in the employment of Sir Charles B. |
| 7 | But the pair returned to Britain a few weeks ago after homesick Joanna complained that Rome did not match up to Newcastle . |
| 8 | But really I do n't think so , although I did speak to the Reading manager Ian Porterfield a few minutes ago and he does seem relaxed and so do his players , so you know I am a little worried now , now we 're getting nearer kick-off I 'm beginning to get a little more worried . |
| 9 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | It 's interesting because I was in Nottingham a few weeks ago and actually on Nottingham market they sell a lot of goat meat |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's a manager , your dad , is n't he ? ’ asked Jamie Shepherd a few minutes later as they bounced round a corner with the old van rattling as if it was going to shake itself to bits at any moment . |
| 15 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 16 | Fortunately , that was in harmony with the thoughts of the ITF Rules Committee which had also met at Key Biscayne a few days earlier and had thrown out the idea of one serve instead of two … or changing the dimensions of the court , such as a smaller service box or a serving line a yard behind the baseline , but agreed to make further research into rackets , balls and court surfaces . |
| 17 | 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 . |