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 . |