Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He took over as chairman a few months later . |
2 | When we were out for lunch a few weeks ago , Alan asked where I was brought up and I said popped out on stalks two brothers had gone to school at . |
3 | They had been dominant there since the late fourteenth century , played an important part in Henry IV 's usurpation in 1399 but were forfeited for revolt a few years later . |
4 | The team included the Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thomson playing one of his last games for Scotland a few months before his tragic death . |
5 | There are of course a few cases where wives earn more than their husbands . |
6 | The year went reasonably well but there were of course a few difficulties as you would expect from a new organisation . |
7 | The following song was broadcast on the radio and was on sale in the record shops , yet the wearing of miniskirts a few years later was denounced as improper and an example of western sexual decadence and permissiveness ! |
8 | Mr Hitch 's son told me that there was a lack of enthusiasm a few years ago but , with new blood on the committee , it is once again gaining in popularity . |
9 | The dropping of the detailed prescription of hours a few years later did not disturb history 's dominant position among the core subjects of the liberal , grammar tradition . |
10 | Your issue on the use of images a few months ago was excellent so why not stick to your own guidelines ? |
11 | We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’ |
12 | For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Attrition , bribery and plain common sense brought about the fall of Kyrenia a few weeks after Nicholas returned there , and although Carlotta , kept in ignorance , might have been devastated by the news , it held no surprises for the people of Cyprus . |
15 | A woman friend saw her driving out of town a few minutes later ; after that she just vanished into thin air . |
16 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
17 | Since assuming the duties of senator a few months ago , Mr Krueger has drawn attention to himself by campaigning with Larry Hagman , who played J.R . |
18 | For thousands of years a few men have searched for these human fruits ; they have filled their minds with the lovely ideas and have taken up their long search and watch on the lonely shore of the other world . |
19 | He spins a tiny triangle of silk a few millimetres in length and deposits a drop of sperm on to it from the gland that lies underneath his body . |
20 | I suspect that for length of service a few others like Sir Alastair Burnet , Mike Neville and Stuart Hall run me pretty close . |
21 | One critic , reviewing Field of Dreams a few years ago , claimed Hollywood was now besotted with the family . |
22 | The big match is at Coundon Road , where Hereford , who took on the might of Bath a few seasons ago try to kill the giants of Coventry . |
23 | He wants to keep the Government 's proposals for the future of the industry a deep and dark secret — and so they remained until the Rothschild report saw the light of day a few weeks ago . |
24 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
25 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
26 | Which one wa I I ca n't remember what I sa I was saying a f a lot of things a few minutes ago . |
27 | The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert . |
28 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
29 | ‘ That 's a patch of grass a few feet by a few feet , ’ I informed him , suddenly aware that Mr Palmer had never visited Chelsea Terrace in his life . |
30 | In response to a frantic waving of arms a few minutes later , I opened up our trusty Seagull motor and chugged round the harbour arm to brave the swell . |