Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything that kept her from running into Nicolo Sabatini was absolutely fine , which was why she had been delighted a few mornings later at the breakfast-table when he 'd told her he would be away for a few days . |
| 2 | Then a few soldiers up at the goods store fired into their own men . ’ |
| 3 | A few decades ago at the US Department of Agriculture Experimental Station in Beltsville , Maryland , only female clucks were hatched from synthetically fertilised turkey eggs . |
| 4 | ‘ Nevertheless , Mrs Atkins , I would appreciate it if you could answer a few questions down at the station … ’ |
| 5 | Ben and Mrs Robinson arrange an assignation a few days later at the swanky Taft Hotel , where , after initial naivety and clumsiness almost make the occasion a farcical disaster , they end up satisfactorily in bed with one another . |
| 6 | Dining a few nights later at the Beefsteak , I was reminded by a bright spark that Home Secretaries scarcely ever become Prime Ministers . |
| 7 | ‘ Primitivism ’ the big show that addressed the relationship between the two a few years ago at the Museum of Modern Art got the debate off to a controversial and often acrimonious start . |
| 8 | When she went to Bolsover a few years ago at the time of the salmonella in eggs crisis , she went into South Normanton marketplace and met a woman there who said , ’ Hey you , are you Currie , the one about the salmonella ? ’ |
| 9 | In 1821 , Mr. Pulley resigned and his successor , Thomas Woolridge , a surgeon of the High Street , was appointed at 50 guineas per annum , to be followed himself by Mr. Blower a few years later at a salary of £63 per annum . |
| 10 | This rude awakening was , however , still a few years away at the time when Dustin joined . |
| 11 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 12 | If Dedham Hall is fully booked — and it may well be — try the best bed-and-breakfast we have ever found , just a few miles away at the Old Vicarage , Higham , near Colchester . |
| 13 | But just a few miles away at the Bennett House School it 's a different story . |
| 14 | Just a few miles away at the Camas camp 1100 refugees with a different story to tell are also preparing for winter . |
| 15 | The revelation comes after speculation that the Princess was receiving assistance after her speech a few weeks ago at an eating disorders conference . |
| 16 | They accused him of giving information to the police about a robbery a few weeks earlier at a local company . |
| 17 | From the moment in the mid-Eighties when it became known that Baron Thyssen was hunting a new location for his famous collection of paintings housed until only a few months ago at the lakeside Villa Favorita near Lugano , city fathers and heads of state began to vie for the prestige of exhibiting it . |
| 18 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |