Example sentences of "[noun prp] a few [noun pl] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These had followed a similarly successful event held in Brussels a few years ago for members in Belgium . |
| 2 | In France , Jean-Pierre Chevènement , who resigned as defence minister shortly after the outbreak of war , accused the United States a few years ago of ‘ the organised cretinisation of our people . ’ |
| 3 | For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions . |
| 4 | The Bewicks landed at Slimbridge a few days ago after their two thousand mile flight from Siberia . |
| 5 | THE Queen Mother has pulled out of a public engagement for tomorrow and will remain in Scotland a few days longer after her hospital stay . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Brod 's premises were on St James 's Street a few yards away from Christie 's . |
| 9 | Merleau-Ponty , who met Nizan a few weeks later at Laurent Casanova 's villa in Porto , recalls that Nizan seemed resigned to the inevitability of war , but still confident in the belief that a tripartite alliance between France , Great Britain and the USSR was a necessary and inevitable prerequisite to the defeat of fascism . |
| 10 | ‘ OK , so there was poor Georgi Markov a few years ago in London . |
| 11 | Indeed , he was talking at the time about the possibility of him returning to Europe a few days later with Sampras for the Davis Cup final . |
| 12 | When Carter a few minutes later in the debate said , ‘ I asked my ( eight-year-old ) daughter Amy last night what she thought … ’ , what the audience heard was : ‘ I 'd better try to find a warm human illustration before it 's too late . ’ |
| 13 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
| 14 | The Manchester City chairman Peter Swales sacked Mel Machin a few years ago for the same reason ; rapport with fans , he believed , was even more important than results . |
| 15 | When she went to Bolsover a few years ago at the time of the salmonella in eggs crisis , she went into South Normanton marketplace and met a woman there who said , ’ Hey you , are you Currie , the one about the salmonella ? ’ |