Example sentences of "at [noun] [art] few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 At the time , what can hardly have failed to make a strong impact on the boy were the great ritual events , including the assemblies , which punctuated the life of the court , and which Charles presumably was brought out by his nurse from the women 's quarters to attend : the arrival of envoys from Constantinople at Compiègne in September 827 ; the public deposition from office of Hugh and Matfrid in February 828 ; the reception of the relics of SS Marcellinus and Petrus at Aachen a few weeks later .
2 But friends continued to die : Jo Schlesser at Rouen a few months later .
3 One Steiff teddy fetched £55,000 at auction a few years ago , although Stonegate 's reproduction of it is somewhat more sensible priced at £175 .
4 Apparently he was involved in an accident at work a few days ago , went to his local casualty department who could n't actually detect any break and treated it as a severe sprain . ’
5 He was still recuperating at home a few nights later when a rustling from the rafters above his bed proved to be yet another python which had entered the village and was lying in wait .
6 At home a few days later , she was pointing excitedly to a top shelf .
7 The Bewicks landed at Slimbridge a few days ago after their two thousand mile flight from Siberia .
8 At the Sedgwick memorial , the main street continues ahead and a branch turns right , these rejoining at Cowgill a few miles further on ; this branch road will be described on the return journey .
9 Anselm reached Dover on 23 September and met Henry I at Salisbury a few days later .
10 The National Football League was nervous about London 's reaction to the first game at Wembley a few years ago , and whether it would be profitable .
11 And , finally , we received two more dead CV12 power packs from the FRG at Soltau a few hours ago . ’
12 Well they are , it 's a long story , again it brings Banbury in it again because when Phil was at Banbury a few years ago , he left to join Brackley Town .
13 It 's not so bad in Division Four , and when the opportunity came up at Ards , I jumped at it , ’ said Armstrong , who captained and coached Bangor before going back to end his playing days at Collegians a few seasons ago .
14 He remembered how she had reluctantly sat down to play him and a couple of other men at poker a few years before .
15 The Sealink ship they attempted to board , the Nord Pas de Calais , was the same ferry which Greenpeace protesters in inflatable craft had held up for several hours during an attempt to stop it docking at Dover a few days earlier .
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