Example sentences of "[noun] [art] few [noun pl] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She married a chap called Parkes a few years back but he went off and left her . |
| 2 | He ordered a cup of tea and a bacon sandwich in the cafe a few doors down and sank his weary limbs down to wait , revelling in his first cigarette of the day . |
| 3 | It has a leisurely , turn-of-the-century ambience , in which strolling in the many green parks , sitting in one of the string of cafés along the Paseo de Pereda , or shopping in the strikingly smart shops a few streets back , are the best ways to spend the day . |
| 4 | When I was in college in the States a few years back , we read about the pre-feminist lives of the middle-class young women in the 50s and early 60s . |
| 5 | I started organising puppy parties for my clients a few months back , using a good dog trainer to co-ordinate the parties and a local church hall as the venue . |
| 6 | The two men stood side by side a few yards in from the edge of the treeline , examining the layout of the ground between them and the house . |
| 7 | That 's a small farming village a few kilometres out of Bad Schwarzendorn . |
| 8 | It did this in Tuscany a few years back , when Chianti was in the doldrums . |
| 9 | ‘ Linfield were drawn against a better team than the one we defeated — and I know from playing in Cyprus with Shamrock Rovers a few years back that Bangor were up against it , too . |
| 10 | ‘ Linfield were drawn against a better team than the one we defeated — and I know from playing in Cyprus with Shamrock Rovers a few years back that Bangor were up against it , too . |
| 11 | A painting by Brueghel the elder was lifted from the Courtauld a few years back . |
| 12 | Susan and I sauntered down the aisle and took seats a few rows back . |
| 13 | As they stepped out from behind the tree , a figure , walking rapidly and glancing back over his shoulder , stepped off the pavement a few yards up and came at them on a collision course . |
| 14 | He only had time to read potted critical works now , with Finals a few weeks off . |
| 15 | She had an accident a few weeks back . |
| 16 | At 3600 m on Mount Erebus , Ross Island , where no surface vegetation was apparent , Janetschek ( 1963 ) recorded bacteria , blue-green algae and microfungi a few centimetres down in the volcanically-warmed soil . |
| 17 | The first here were from an assart only cut from the woods a few years back , it was a godsend indeed to them . |
| 18 | The 75 Ross employees in Austin , Texas will transfer to Fujitsu when the deal is completed — it should go through next month if Uncle Sam does not put up the kind of objections that thwarted Fujitsu 's desire to buy Fairchild Semiconductor Corp a few years back . |
| 19 | The 75 Ross employees in Austin , Texas will transfer to Fujitsu when the deal is completed — it should go through next month if Uncle Sam does not put up the kind of objections that thwarted Fujitsu 's desire to buy Fairchild Semiconductor Corp a few years back . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | NCR notes that it added 3270 Terminal Support a few weeks back . |
| 22 | In the very next group I chanced upon that guy , you know the one , he used to read the weather on TVS a few years back , grey hair , quite tall , you know , John something . |
| 23 | He seems to like getting rid of the crowd pleasers , look at his history Cantona last year , Vinny a few years back , John Sheridan before that and now Batty . |
| 24 | I know he has done some bar work , ( hardly surprising for a pisshead like Harvey ) I remember seeing him in the Three Cups at Stamford Bridge a few years back . |
| 25 | Then yeah well then things a few years back we 'd got archway , you see , and we used to tie the bullocks in the archway . |
| 26 | We had no Peters , no Colins , only one David and , though there had been a Kevin a few years back , we were now understaffed in that area too . |
| 27 | Ever since Bob Haboldt opened his Paris gallery on the faubourg Saint Honoré a few years back , things have been relatively quiet at his New York offices . |
| 28 | Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss ! |
| 29 | IBM demonstrated OS/2 and OSF/1 running concurrently on a PS/2 at Comdex a few weeks back , using the multiple personality capabilities of OSF 's Mach-based microkernel technology . |
| 30 | ‘ Superintendent , ’ began a woman TV reporter a few rows back , who wore artificial eyelashes like black combs . |