Example sentences of "was [verb] [art] few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This preparatory work was practically complete at the outbreak of war and authority was given a few days before for completion . |
| 2 | After all , he 's only been experiencing the outside world since his vaccination course was completed a few weeks ago . |
| 3 | I might enjoy sampling what I was touching a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 4 | Her car was parked a few yards away from the building . |
| 5 | Andrew Fowler was caught a few days later when police discovered the caravan at the girl 's former home . |
| 6 | The state of emergency was lifted a few days later after pollution levels had fallen . |
| 7 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 8 | He was ambushed a few hours later and shot dead . |
| 9 | Her question was answered a few minutes later when Matthew himself came outside and saw her at the window . |
| 10 | On the death of his wife Lambarde feared he might lose the right to stay at Halling and petitioned a request to Lord Burghley through his friend Lord Cobham , to ask for custody of Maximilian and a lease to the Palace , which was granted a few days later . |
| 11 | A similar suggestion was made a few years later by the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace , apparently independently of Michell . |
| 12 | During such a study , a serendipitous observation was made a few years ago in our laboratory at Bangalore . |
| 13 | ‘ When the draw for the quarter-final was made a few weeks ago , I was delighted at being paired with Derry City ’ he declared . |
| 14 | He was strumming a few chords now , one foot up on a stool , and the silence in the little bar was complete . |
| 15 | This was sold a few days later for £8.58 million ! |
| 16 | Fortunately , Quetta was bought a few months later by a retired man , Harold Shoosmith . |
| 17 | The old watermill was demolished a few years ago , but was active until 1960 . |
| 18 | The response from designers and knitters included plenty of suggestions for improvement in the basic shapes and version 2 of Designaknit was born a few weeks later . |
| 19 | Why was the lignite option given such short shrift by NIE when it was raised a few years ago ? |
| 20 | For although Britain , France , Germany and Italy had guaranteed the frontiers of that country ( minus the Sudetenland ) at that same conference , the Czech Republic was fragmented a few weeks later , and by the following March Germany had completed her design by totally absorbing an independent state . |
| 21 | He was staying a few miles away , with the Earl of Carlisle at Castle Howard , and he would be hunting that day with the Lord Middleton 's . |
| 22 | Soon released , Throckmorton was rearrested a few months later because of the involvement of his younger brother , Michael , with Cardinal Reginald Pole [ q.v. ] : once again no charge was sustained . |
| 23 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 24 | Now I know as I was saying a few moments ago , I travelled to the continent just recently , and I know we had to pay a surcharge on the flight . |
| 25 | I have always regretted the fact that the unhappiest part of my life was spent a few miles away from Riggindale , and I never visited it . |
| 26 | For many years it lay ignored in store , but was restored a few years ago ; its lack of finish is particularly significant . |
| 27 | Her husband was arrested a few hours later . |
| 28 | That was followed a few years later by the Meadows situation in Dallas , Texas , where Alger Meadows had bought from two travelling Frenchmen a whole collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works which were all fakes . |
| 29 | But it was followed a few months later by sort of mini riot . |
| 30 | The move followed a visit to Singapore in August by the Chinese Premier , Li Peng [ see p. 37656 ] , and the renewal that month of China 's diplomatic relations with Indonesia , and was followed a few weeks later by a visit by Lee Kuan Yew to China [ see p. 37780 ] . |