Example sentences of "[noun] [art] few [noun pl] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of the year he signed for the Oxford Products Ducati team but the link-up never quite worked out and Robert ended the association a few weeks ago . |
| 2 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 3 | no fuss and I said ooh , I said I forgot about her being forty , I bought the card a few weeks ago |
| 4 | He got me a ring a few years ago . |
| 5 | The media commentator Michael Leapman , writing in the Independent on Sunday , observed that ‘ she has not usually done well in other roles … her Panorama programme on TV violence a few years ago was not judged a critical success . ’ |
| 6 | Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace . |
| 7 | He has had the great distinction of having to deny past intelligence experience — when the former Cabinet Secretary made his allegation a few years ago . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The 5-0 defeat at Liverpool on Saturday could prove to be a watershed , just like our 9-0 defeat a few seasons ago . ’ |
| 10 | Philip left Darlington Hockey Club a few seasons ago to improve his standard of play and joined Norton . |
| 11 | ‘ The enterprise of the Leeds City management in securing Speirs would have staggered those responsible for the club a few years ago , ’ observed the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 12 | After her move from New York to New Mexico a few years ago , Rothenberg became neighbours with another aritst who has strongly influenced her career , Agnes martin . |
| 13 | These had followed a similarly successful event held in Brussels a few years ago for members in Belgium . |
| 14 | Pioneering research a few years ago by American chemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Ponns , was dismissed as a false dawn and ‘ con fusion ’ . |
| 15 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 16 | I saw the virtue of her advice most clearly when I stayed with a girlfriend a few weeks ago . |
| 17 | yeah , that , that 's how I bought it in Sainsburys a few years ago |
| 18 | There 's a lot of misunderstanding about I S O Nine Thousand and I think that Norman 's er analogy a few seconds ago is really , really rather good . |
| 19 | , the PA at the fine art people took me to Perth Theatre one Friday a few weeks ago to see a stupendous , lively , robust performance of ‘ Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off ’ I could see it again , it was so good . |
| 20 | The band does n't occupy all our time , but we 're alive and we 're well ; I spoke to David a few weeks ago , and we 're trying to juggle the schedules to go into the studio early next year . ’ |
| 21 | That 's why all cars a few years ago started looking the same , now they all look sort of like this . |
| 22 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 23 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 24 | Jan Turner says that he helped organise an evererst marathon a few years ago and one sad thing about that was the local runners could not afford the right equipment or did n't have the money to tarin … so he 's here to help them |
| 25 | Your issue on the use of images a few months ago was excellent so why not stick to your own guidelines ? |
| 26 | Erm I think we covered it briefly but erm covered it perhaps in slightly greater detail when when we had the preliminary interview a few weeks ago . |
| 27 | Officials said that , had Labour won , there would have been a period of uncertainty , although Mr Kinnock 's policies had changed and he was no longer the frightening prospect he seemed to the US administration a few years ago . |
| 28 | Writing a piece a few weeks ago , she had had to think very hard before remembering the American expression for council housing . |
| 29 | She could look back down on her twenty-two years and see a tall handsome man , and she recalled his words a few minutes ago , ‘ Sorrow does n't last . ’ |
| 30 | I told myself I could live with the thought of having just a small part of your life and love , but when you put it into words a few moments ago I could see how awful it would have been . |