Example sentences of "[noun prp] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In a letter to Gould a few months later , Lear , with characteristic self-pity , excuses his poor output : |
| 32 | We discussed the administration of the hospital , especially the shift times of the nurses , to allow Frank a few minutes alone with Salome . |
| 33 | The Bewicks landed at Slimbridge a few days ago after their two thousand mile flight from Siberia . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | It did this in Tuscany a few years back , when Chianti was in the doldrums . |
| 38 | When Swift returned to Worcester a few days later , he was greeted with the ringing of bells , illuminations and bonfires , at many of which could be heard the tune of " The King shall have his own again " . |
| 39 | It was widely rumoured that when the party leader , Klement Gottwald , died , in March 1953 , it was from grief at the death of Stalin a few weeks earlier . |
| 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 | The team included the Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thomson playing one of his last games for Scotland a few months before his tragic death . |
| 42 | D. A few farmers specialise by growing crops of high value . |
| 43 | The one that was on Jonathan Ross a few weeks ago . |
| 44 | Only wallpaper for the whitewashed parlour seemed , at least in Cottle 's opinion , to be lacking , and he accordingly sent an upholsterer down to Clevedon a few days later to paste up some ‘ sprightly paper ’ . |
| 45 | ‘ 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 . |
| 46 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 47 | A painting by Brueghel the elder was lifted from the Courtauld a few years back . |
| 48 | Ferrasse 's low-key reaction to the incident contrasted vividly with his robust treatment of Jean-Pierre Garuet after the Lourdes prop was sent off in an international against Ireland a few years ago . |
| 49 | She moved into North Yorkshire a few weeks ago from Mulhous Zoo in France with everyone believing her to be one of only eight Lears Macaws in captivity anywhere . |
| 50 | He left Darlington Hockey Club for Norton a few seasons ago to improve his standard of play and his new club is currently lying fourth in the prestigious northern premier league . |
| 51 | Bush emphasized that he still hoped to avert war , and that a meeting could still go ahead in Baghdad between US Secretary of State James Baker and President Saddam Hussein a few days after Jan. 3 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | ‘ You got together again in Sydney a few years ago , I 'm told , and here you are a third time . |
| 54 | Brod 's premises were on St James 's Street a few yards away from Christie 's . |
| 55 | It even took us into Cambridge a few times , but that was pushing it a bit — and once or twice we really had to . |
| 56 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
| 57 | But a tape , on which she recorded a conversation she had with Maurice a few weeks before her death . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | ‘ I am not really me , ’ he had confided to Robert a few months ago , as the two were on a bus , on their way to the Megabowl in Kingston . |
| 60 | Anselm reached Dover on 23 September and met Henry I at Salisbury a few days later . |