Example sentences of "[vb past] in [art] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | One of the most important of these ‘ eruptions ’ occurred in the latter decades of the nineteenth and early decades of the present century when the fabulous wealth of plants in the Chinese hinterland was made known to the West by French missionaries and British and European hunters . |
2 | He returned in a few minutes with a very wet and chastened Liam and the cortege was complete . |
3 | Shivering , she brushed a few drops of rain from her face , glad when Rune returned in a few minutes in the promised taxi . |
4 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
5 | Not bad for the first day , she thought with a sense of satisfaction as she washed her hands and tucked in a few strands of escaping hair . |