Example sentences of "[noun prp] a few [noun] back " 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 | 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 . |
3 | It did this in Tuscany a few years back , when Chianti was in the doldrums . |
4 | A painting by Brueghel the elder was lifted from the Courtauld a few years back . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 ! |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Television 's ‘ Hammer ’ found himself in the slammer when he tried smuggling cocaine into Britain a few years back . |
14 | ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back . |
15 | In Sri Lanka a few years back , shortly before the elections , he wandered through the frightened crowds at political rallies , despite warnings that danger was imminent . |
16 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |