Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | When Edith had met Joss Campbell a few years later he had been so glad for her , because Joss was older than Edith and was more than a match for Nancy . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | One similar order affected a shellfish farm in Loch Moidart a few miles further north , but that was granted to the Government 's Sea Fish Industry Authority for research . |
6 | I 've never met Sir Brian or Sir Oliver and have only met Sir Bernard a few times , but I instinctively feel that all six would lay down their lives without hesitation for a damsel in distress . |
7 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
8 | He said he had been aware of the consequences when he picked Mr Jackson a few weeks ago . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ OK , so there was poor Georgi Markov a few years ago in London . |
12 | Again un-named as yet , it has a provisional grading of E8 6c , and supersedes a pitch climbed by Grant Farquhar a few weeks previously , which finished up the top section of Lord of the Flies . |
13 | ‘ We 'll leave it for now and stream Uncle Manfred a few times . ’ |
14 | Or will he — as Mr Major a few months ago implied he would , before backing off — ‘ go for growth ’ ? |
15 | In French West Africa a few stations , like the fine one at Bobo-Diolassu in Senegal , were built in a recognizably local style . |
16 | Siouxsie Sioux , about ten years ago , adopting a pose very similar to that of P J Harvey a few weeks ago , only she was wearing a Greek fisherman 's hat |
17 | At the time we asked Mrs Harvey a few questions . |
18 | In France , Jean-Pierre Chevènement , who resigned as defence minister shortly after the outbreak of war , accused the United States a few years ago of ‘ the organised cretinisation of our people . ’ |
19 | ( they had all left Iran for the United States a few weeks before their parents ) . |
20 | One day I took the opportunity of asking Mrs Fairfax a few questions about Mr Rochester , as I was curious about him , and the little housekeeper seemed happy to talk . |
21 | Benredjeb gave former WBC champion Hodkinson a few problems before being stopped in the eighth round of a European featherweight title challenge in December 1989 . |
22 | Broussonet had also suggested he should put forward proposals for the creation of a veterinary school in England , an idea possibly prompted by the visit to the Alfort school of Arthur Young a few days earlier . |
23 | Mick Papp got more than he bargained for when he stopped at Strathford 's garage in East Kilbride a few weeks ago . |
24 | Hell , everybody I know 's done something like that at some time or another but that does n't make them a murderer ; I think McDunn 's crazy but I ca n't tell him that because , if he 's wrong about that and I 'm wrong about it being something to do with those guys who died in the Lake District a few years ago , then there 's only one suspect left and that 's me . |
25 | Standing talking with Mrs McMahon a few minutes later , she saw him capture Feargal . |
26 | They threaded their way through the vegetable market , full of dull early spring vegetables instead of the mounds of tomatoes and aubergines and peppers and artichokes that Julia longed to see and buy , and reached the Tribunale di Giustizia a few minutes later . |
27 | Although all of us are deeply concerned to know precisely what happened in East Timor , will she bear it in mind that , since Indonesia took over East Timor a few years ago , there has been considerable development of the infrastructure in that country , and that , although no one condones that massacre , we must know what has been going on before we adopt the language that we heard from the Labour party ? |
28 | Storms Morrissey , at No 23 in the charts with former band The Smiths ' This Charming Man : ‘ I 've met Vic Reeves a few times and I ca n't believe he 'd do something so hurtful . |
29 | The SunAccounts system in New York went live early in 1990 ; London was added in mid-1991 and Hong Kong a few months later . |
30 | ‘ He 's a manager , your dad , is n't he ? ’ asked Jamie Shepherd a few minutes later as they bounced round a corner with the old van rattling as if it was going to shake itself to bits at any moment . |