Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overcoming a certain lethargy we sailed for Oban a few hours later . |
| 2 | Even these statistics palled to insignificance a few years later when cocaine joined with heroin in the hard drugs scene and the high value of low bulk concentrated drugs made it so profitable and easy to smuggle . |
| 3 | The sixth child was taken captive but returned to friends a few years later . |
| 4 | When Swift returned to Worcester a few days later , he was greeted with the ringing of bells , illuminations and bonfires , at many of which could be heard the tune of " The King shall have his own again " . |
| 5 | Erle returned to Dorset a few years later to become a ship-money refuser and to head the poll in the county election of March 1640 ; but he resigned the seat to George Digby , second Earl of Bristol [ q.v. ] , and served for Lyme Regis in the Short Parliament , to which he reported on innovations in religion . |
| 6 | The Bewicks landed at Slimbridge a few days ago after their two thousand mile flight from Siberia . |
| 7 | It mattered not that Underwood repaid in kind a few minutes later — the damage had been done . |
| 8 | ‘ And of course , I do feed bad about it , ’ Maxim confessed to Agnes a few minutes later . |
| 9 | Instead of the screams of starving men , there were prayers , and the prayers passed into silence as one by one they died of starvation a few yards away from food . |
| 10 | That calm , matter-of-fact voice belonged to Jack Swigert , the command module pilot , who survived that close call but died of cancer a few weeks ago . |
| 11 | She died in hospital a few days later . |
| 12 | 'E died in 'ospital a few days later . |
| 13 | His hopes of a memorable 100th Test appearance lay in ruins a few days later . |
| 14 | 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | This show is a kind of extension of club events I did in LA a few years back which used computer graphics , big projections , dance music and crowds . |
| 16 | Last week Yamaguchi , 20 , added the women 's ice skating world title to the Olympic gold she won in France a few weeks earlier . |
| 17 | The band does n't occupy all our time , but we 're alive and we 're well ; I spoke to David a few weeks ago , and we 're trying to juggle the schedules to go into the studio early next year . ’ |
| 18 | Despite this demonstration of his habitual need for normal sleep , even if only for a few hours a night , this same individual appeared on television a few years later , again claiming never to sleep . |
| 19 | ‘ Everyone wrote off Norwich a few weeks ago , but they beat Sheffield United in midweek while we lost , and Villa slipped up by only drawing with Tottenham . |
| 20 | But a tape , on which she recorded a conversation she had with Maurice a few weeks before her death . |
| 21 | Well , I , I , I mean I 've been to one , to a meeting , they had in Manchester a few years ago , Irene 's been to some . |
| 22 | Each night she retired to bed a few minutes earlier , and he saw it as an excuse to avoid the means of starting another pregnancy , though she was in the best of health . |
| 23 | Tareq Aziz travelled to Moscow a few days later , perhaps with the aim of clearing the air where he encountered the Soviet leader Gorbachev . |