Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before . |
| 2 | I have n't toured for a few years now , apart from the World Cup and I made that an exception because I felt we could go all the way and win it . ’ |
| 3 | In 1986 , when leading , he hit a four-iron into it , his confidence seemingly shattered for a few years after . |
| 4 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
| 5 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 6 | The curtains bowed in a few yards away , almost touching the window-sill , the movement like a wave . |
| 7 | His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before . |
| 8 | Most importantly , what did Alexander learn at that Council meeting which changed his attitude , sending him on a journey in very dangerous conditions to court a queen he could scarcely be bothered with a few weeks before ? |
| 9 | The ASB has highlighted two methods of dubious interpretation used by a few companies so far . |
| 10 | The fact is that diesel engines are produced in huge volume compared with a few years ago , reducing costs considerably , while petrol engines have grown ever more complex . |
| 11 | I 'm amazingly affluent compared with a few years ago , especially when I was on the dole for three years . |
| 12 | And though the objects of our gaze have been varied , the experience has been a unified one , for they were the result of one artistic mood , erected within a few years almost 2,500 years ago . |
| 13 | A thing that I 've heard from a few directions recently is erm the thought of work shadowing . |
| 14 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
| 15 | It was left behind a few days ago , Ramsbum does n't know by whom , and no one 's claimed it . ’ |