Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [noun] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The census of 1785 confirms that the Titfords were still on Pig Street , not having been driven out by the noise of falling stone or splintering wood ; not that noise would have been anything unusual for them — they already had Thomas Addams ' blacksmith 's shop down the street , and the ringing sound of metal on metal emanating from there must have mingled nicely with the constant clip-clop of horses ' hooves as Henry Webley went about his business as the Bristol carrier a few doors away . |
| 2 | The oilmen arrived in the Herefordshire hills a few days ago and they 've already started drilling . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ( they had all left Iran for the United States a few weeks before their parents ) . |
| 5 | Both Andrew and Judith arrived in Vancouver much in need of rest to recuperate from their hazardous and near-fatal experiences as passengers on the ill-fated liner ‘ Athenia ’ , which was torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi submarine off the Eire coast a few days after the outbreak of World War II . |
| 6 | This quirk was to come under scrutiny in the Liverpool post-mortems a few months later . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His remarks reflected the general alteration in TANU policy which was to be embodied in the Arusha Declaration a few days later . |
| 9 | Soviet recognition was extended to the Castro government a few days after it had taken power , but this was not reciprocated , and it appears to have been the Cubans , concerned not to give Washington any pretext for claiming that Communism had arrived in the Caribbean , who were responsible for the fact that for well over a year after the revolution the two countries did not have diplomatic ties . |
| 10 | Pool had the last laugh in the FA Cup a few weeks later . |
| 11 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 12 | The stables of the castle had been bought from the Sanvitale family a few years before by a family from Milan ( but of Fontanellato origin ) called the Gandini . |
| 13 | He was to give him a part which would take him into the West End a few months after leaving school , write a special role for him in what would be his first film , introduce him to his future wife and , through one of his sons , Brook , provide him with a lifelong younger ‘ brother ’ . |
| 14 | Officials said that , had Labour won , there would have been a period of uncertainty , although Mr Kinnock 's policies had changed and he was no longer the frightening prospect he seemed to the US administration a few years ago . |
| 15 | The King complained about the singing of the ‘ Red Flag ’ and the ‘ Marseillaise ’ at the Labour Party meeting in the Albert Hall a few days before . |
| 16 | Their father , Patrick Hamilton , had died dramatically a year ago , blown up by an IRA car-bomb a few yards from what was then their home in Dublin . |