Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course this notice would naturally not be signed by both parties as required by s. 2 , which had come into effect a few weeks before . |
| 2 | Turner from St Michael 's Mission to the Blind , who had been attacked by dacoits a few days earlier and left for dead a few miles out of Shwebo . |
| 3 | An overall winner and a runner-up were chosen from the many entries and their reviews were featured in TeleClub a few weeks ago . |
| 4 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 5 | He did not yet know , as we know now thanks to the cuneiform tablet B.M. 35603 , that Antiochus IV had died in Persia a few days or weeks before the probable date of the reconsecration of the Temple ( A. I. Sachs and D. J. Wiseman , Iraq 16 ( 1954 ) , 212 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ The one which detonated at Lisnaskea in my constituency just a few days ago was one of many stolen in Dublin a few days previously , ’ said Mr Maginnis . |
| 7 | Components that were made in and shipped from Malaysia a few days earlier are then shipped back ’ . |
| 8 | Some hours of searching brought to light a few finds , these being small targets but nevertheless interesting ones . |
| 9 | This condition is more aptly termed pre-menstrual syndrome ( PMS ) because tension is just one of a number of other emotional and physical disturbances experienced by women a few days ( or two weeks ) before the onset of menstruation . |
| 10 | More to the point , she had travelled to Italy a few years previously while in the employment of Sir Charles B. |
| 11 | The reason for this was the bright point of light that had popped into existence a few feet from his eyes . |
| 12 | A problem graphically illustrated in Swindon a few years |
| 13 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 14 | They had been sent on from Sydney by their nephew Henry , who had left for Australia a few weeks earlier to live with his uncle , Stephen Coxen , at Yarrundi in New South Wales . |
| 15 | ‘ I have worked with Paul a few times . |
| 16 | Among other things there is no sign of any late qualms about his reliance on the Apollo-Dionysus formula : as he had remarked to Rohde a few months earlier , " I really believe I can get a great deal out of the polarity . " |
| 17 | And yes , he 's been mistaken for food a few times ! |
| 18 | They had been dominant there since the late fourteenth century , played an important part in Henry IV 's usurpation in 1399 but were forfeited for revolt a few years later . |
| 19 | Very shortly afterwards the young man was called up and sadly , he was killed in action a few weeks later . |
| 20 | Dana went on with his friend to see her off at Le Havre , while I made my way to London , where I was joined by Dana a few days later . |
| 21 | These had followed a similarly successful event held in Brussels a few years ago for members in Belgium . |
| 22 | The directive , which follows a similar directive on non-life insurance published in draft a few months ago , is the last big element in its push to open financial markets that are still highly protected . |
| 23 | ‘ I am not really me , ’ he had confided to Robert a few months ago , as the two were on a bus , on their way to the Megabowl in Kingston . |
| 24 | But the pair returned to Britain a few weeks ago after homesick Joanna complained that Rome did not match up to Newcastle . |
| 25 | Their first cassette , ‘ Live in the City ’ , was released on CD a few months ago . |