Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Instead of the screams of starving men , there were prayers , and the prayers passed into silence as one by one they died of starvation a few yards away from food . |
| 32 | William , who has been on invalidity benefit since the accident , accepted a settlement of £70,000 a few days before the case started . |
| 33 | ‘ Was n't he involved in some sort of scandal a few years ago ? ’ |
| 34 | So if doctors find concentrations of HPD a few days after the injection , they know there are tumours there . |
| 35 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 36 | We picked these up on a visit we made to the island of Haiti a few years ago , and they 've become part of our Christmas celebrations ever since . ’ |
| 37 | That calm , matter-of-fact voice belonged to Jack Swigert , the command module pilot , who survived that close call but died of cancer a few weeks ago . |
| 38 | Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra . |
| 39 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 40 | On July 4 Gandhi promoted a number of junior ministers ( see pp. 36027-28 for previous portfolios ) ; D. L. Baitha was promoted to Minister of State for Defence Production replacing Chintamani Panigraphi who had been appointed Governor of Manipur a few days earlier [ see above ] ; Mahavir Prasad became Minister of State for Mines ; P. Namgyal became Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals and Petrochemicals ; Sumati Oraon became Minister of State for Environment and Forests ; Radhakrishna Malaviya became Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs ; Saroj Khaparde was shifted from Minister of State for Health to Textiles ; Giridhar Gomango was given independent charge of the Communications Ministry ( following the death of the Communications Minister in May — see p. 36657 ) ; and Rafiq Alam became Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare ( independent charge ) , a post which had been vacant since the January appointment of Moti Lal Vora as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh . |
| 41 | A severe attack of pneumonia a few weeks before the entrance examination destroyed his university hopes , and he resigned himself to working on his father 's farm . |
| 42 | " In the city of Hiroshima a few things , such as trees , bridges , and buildings , survived the bombing and stand unobtrusively , but not forgotten , among the many new buildings " . |
| 43 | Montenegro trebled its area at Turkey 's expense by the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878 , but the treaty was never ratified , and the Congress of Berlin a few months later forced Montenegro to surrender some of its gains . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Offered to the museum for £800 by Hans Calmann , who subsequently lowered the price to £550 as the Committee ‘ felt a little uncertain about the Bust — or rather , I should say whether we should pay up ’ because a bust of the same period ‘ more certainly by Foggini ’ had been purchased by the V&A for £80 a few years before . |
| 46 | Subsequent to the date of the surrender , according to local farmers , many Croats were machine gunned in a small valley near Poljana a few miles across the border from Bleiburg inside Yugoslavia . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | When the door of the pub slammed shut behind Minter a few moments later , he sighed with relief and took a lengthy gulp at his beer . |
| 49 | The reason for this was the bright point of light that had popped into existence a few feet from his eyes . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | In fact , most damage to breast shape happens during their often rapid growth during pregnancy , then when filling with milk a few days after birth . |
| 52 | His presence in the pitch darkness was marked only by the dull glow of a cigarette , its red tip pulsing into light every few moments to reveal the black pencil of the Colonel 's moustache as he sat , immobile behind his desk , reflecting on the previous day 's visitor . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | His body had now completely relaxed after his frantic efforts with Molly a few minutes before . |
| 55 | Peter Shillinglaw , secretary of New Brighton Lifeboat which had to go into action a few times , said : ‘ I can not help but think the organisers of this race have been very , very lucky over the years . ’ |
| 56 | Of course this notice would naturally not be signed by both parties as required by s. 2 , which had come into effect a few weeks before . |
| 57 | But a tape , on which she recorded a conversation she had with Maurice a few weeks before her death . |
| 58 | It even took us into Cambridge a few times , but that was pushing it a bit — and once or twice we really had to . |
| 59 | He only had time to read potted critical works now , with Finals a few weeks off . |
| 60 | Yeah , I went out with Shelley , with Warren a few times read read yeah ? |