Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 31 | Graham Greene , in Panama a few years earlier , noticed a similar style of popular consultation and accessibility being used by General Omar Torrijos and his government , and suggested that the country " had evolved a very different form of democracy " from Britain 's , but one with its own validity . |
| 32 | ‘ We took the kids out in Windsor a few nights ago and after the meal Ally sang , ‘ It 's now or never ’ to me by the castle . |
| 33 | A problem graphically illustrated in Swindon a few years |
| 34 | From Shrewsbury a few days earlier he had already written to Tom Poole : |
| 35 | This show is a kind of extension of club events I did in LA a few years back which used computer graphics , big projections , dance music and crowds . |
| 36 | These had followed a similarly successful event held in Brussels a few years ago for members in Belgium . |
| 37 | ‘ If there 's bandits along any of these sections , ’ he said , ‘ we 'll skip 'em and you can tack on the extra mileage by walking round Kano a few times . ’ |
| 38 | yeah , that , that 's how I bought it in Sainsburys a few years ago |
| 39 | Elizabeth Mowbray , accompanied by her daughter and a large entourage , set forth from Framlingham a few weeks later . |
| 40 | THE Queen Mother has pulled out of a public engagement for tomorrow and will remain in Scotland a few days longer after her hospital stay . |
| 41 | ‘ I was in Florida a few weeks ago and heard an album cut at my studios a few years ago by the Diamond Accordion Band being played on a pub juke box . |
| 42 | ‘ I do , ’ I said , ‘ in my own ward and when I can special a patient right through , as I did my classic pneumonia girl in Hope a few weeks ago . |
| 43 | This second charge came because Ramsey had written an article in the Bishoprick which criticized the evangelistic work of Billy Graham , who led a mission in England a few months before . |
| 44 | As Mr Cardinal had indicated , M. Dupont had not arrived in a good temper ; I can not recall now all the various things that had upset him since his arrival in England a few days previously , but in particular he had obtained some painful sores on his feet while sightseeing around London and these , he feared , were growing septic . |
| 45 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 46 | It did this in Tuscany a few years back , when Chianti was in the doldrums . |
| 47 | And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier . |
| 48 | ‘ You got together again in Sydney a few years ago , I 'm told , and here you are a third time . |
| 49 | ‘ I remember now , he 's the gipsy child Mr Earnshaw brought home from Liverpool a few years ago . ’ |
| 50 | De Gaulle 's argument against Mendès-France was essentially the same that he had used against Eisenhower in Strasbourg a few months earlier : circumstances matter . |
| 51 | I was in China a few years ago and was fascinated to discover there was one bicycle for every thirty Chinese , and you see they 're not going to be distributed very equally are they ? |
| 52 | ‘ Stein crossed the border near Echternach in Luxembourg a few hours ago . |
| 53 | OUT OF the throng of Tibetan pilgrims on the sacred Barkhor street in Lhasa a few weeks ago emerged six young women in maroon gowns and bare heads . |
| 54 | That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later . |
| 55 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 56 | At 16 he emigrated to Canada and began work in a small shipyard in Quebec , owned by his uncle , John Black , who had gone there from Irvine a few years earlier . |
| 57 | Components that were made in and shipped from Malaysia a few days earlier are then shipped back ’ . |
| 58 | At a business seminar in Australia a few years ago , Kerry Packer described his method of obtaining loans : ‘ Make sure you get the bankers to come to your office . |
| 59 | Last week Yamaguchi , 20 , added the women 's ice skating world title to the Olympic gold she won in France a few weeks earlier . |
| 60 | He was one of the three walking brothers who had stopped their walk to admire the May-Day dance in Marlott a few years before . |