Example sentences of "[noun] [art] few [noun pl] earlier " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amused speculation on whether the new vicar could really be casting lustful glances at the choir-mistress produced an effective antidote to the emotional tension a few minutes earlier . |
| 2 | He had lost his bearings on a trip to nearby shops a few weeks earlier . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It would have been a very different scene a few weeks earlier . |
| 5 | Then Newsweek magazine dredged up some remarks which Mr Mason made at a lunch a few weeks earlier . |
| 6 | The next day belonged to Devon Malcolm , a man who came into the Test team a few months earlier against Australia with a reputation for being able to bowl extremely quickly but rarely accurately , who , with less than perfect eyesight , was a total rabbit with the bat , and who could be a joke as a fielder . |
| 7 | She thought of the moment a few hours earlier , before they had left for dinner , when he had taken her in his arms . |
| 8 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 9 | A new chancellor , unexpectedly shifted from the foreign secretary 's post a few months earlier , delivered a ‘ budget for savers ’ . |
| 10 | They accused him of giving information to the police about a robbery a few weeks earlier at a local company . |
| 11 | Spencer Stuart went through this process a few years earlier in a more effective way . |
| 12 | Among other things there is no sign of any late qualms about his reliance on the Apollo-Dionysus formula : as he had remarked to Rohde a few months earlier , " I really believe I can get a great deal out of the polarity . " |
| 13 | However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands . |
| 14 | In a perverse way , the new utopia dredged up ancient ways of doing things which capitalism a few decades earlier had threatened to abolish . |
| 15 | I explained that I 'd found someone to substitute for me — one of the Carter boys was looking for holiday work — but he kept making objections about unqualified staff , mentioning a notorious case a few years earlier when one malcontent teacher wreaked his revenge by teaching a group of teenage Italians that the English greet each other in the street with the phrase ‘ Piss off , wanker . ’ |
| 16 | I had n't noticed this picture much while she was alive , but now she was dead it seemed as if her eyes sparkled with the same vitality that they had appeared to possess when I had seen her lying cold on her straw mattress a few days earlier . |
| 17 | It was of course , this unit for which the maintenance crews had been flown to the island by the 10 R.A.A.F. Squadron Sunderland a few days earlier . |
| 18 | On the other hand , Linnaeus , who had visited Chelsea a few months earlier , came in for severe criticism : ‘ … he has demolished not only Species but Genus without the least reason for so doing but that of having his method establish 'd and made universal , which I venture to affirm will be of very short duration ’ . |
| 19 | Turner from St Michael 's Mission to the Blind , who had been attacked by dacoits a few days earlier and left for dead a few miles out of Shwebo . |
| 20 | Ademar had become the undisputed head of the Taillefer family after the death of his brother William a few years earlier . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 23 | From Shrewsbury a few days earlier he had already written to Tom Poole : |
| 24 | The INF treaty , agreed at Washington the previous December , was formally signed by the two leaders on 1 June , following its ratification a few days earlier by the US Senate and by the USSR Supreme Soviet ( the first Soviet rockets were destroyed , to some publicity , in early August ) . |
| 25 | This is the same room where Jesus a few hours earlier had celebrated the last supper . |
| 26 | He saw the ball a few seconds earlier than other batsmen . ’ |
| 27 | The event might not have any obvious long-term adverse significance and may in fact have seemingly positive rather than negative features , such as the reappearance and request to renew contact with a lover with whom a person had had an intense relationship a few years earlier . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It might even result in information which , in turn , could help to elucidate why army undercover men were stealing the three vehicles that night a few months earlier near William Black 's house at the junction of Black 's Road and Tildarg . |
| 30 | 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 . |