Example sentences of "[noun prp] a few [noun pl] [adv] " 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 | After her move from New York to New Mexico a few years ago , Rothenberg became neighbours with another aritst who has strongly influenced her career , Agnes martin . |
3 | These had followed a similarly successful event held in Brussels a few years ago for members in Belgium . |
4 | His body had now completely relaxed after his frantic efforts with Molly a few minutes before . |
5 | Then he makes a lightning trip back on Concorde for Petit Loup in the Arc a few hours later . |
6 | yeah , that , that 's how I bought it in Sainsburys a few years ago |
7 | , the PA at the fine art people took me to Perth Theatre one Friday a few weeks ago to see a stupendous , lively , robust performance of ‘ Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off ’ I could see it again , it was so good . |
8 | But friends continued to die : Jo Schlesser at Rouen a few months later . |
9 | The band does n't occupy all our time , but we 're alive and we 're well ; I spoke to David a few weeks ago , and we 're trying to juggle the schedules to go into the studio early next year . ’ |
10 | 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 . ’ |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Fortunately she had an order for a full-length wool coat and dress , and worked in happy isolation in the small room at the back of the shop , her mind lingering on the implication of Penry 's invitation as her fingers flew independently to finish the order for a customer due to return to the States a few days later . |
13 | Dana went on with his friend to see her off at Le Havre , while I made my way to London , where I was joined by Dana a few days later . |
14 | Shatila finally collapsed on 27 June 1988 , followed by Bourj el-Brajneh a few days later . |
15 | ‘ I was in Florida a few weeks ago and heard an album cut at my studios a few years ago by the Diamond Accordion Band being played on a pub juke box . |
16 | For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions . |
17 | Erle returned to Dorset a few years later to become a ship-money refuser and to head the poll in the county election of March 1640 ; but he resigned the seat to George Digby , second Earl of Bristol [ q.v. ] , and served for Lyme Regis in the Short Parliament , to which he reported on innovations in religion . |
18 | He nodded , and left the room , Alexia a few steps behind . |
19 | If the sale had gone ahead , Rio Tinto would have developed Wheal Concord , refining its ore in the modern processing plant at Wheal Jane a few kilometres away . |
20 | What is the true story of the Japanese businessman who returned a stolen Impressionist painting to France and was decorated for it by President Mitterrand on the occasion of the reopening of the Louvre a few years ago ? |
21 | Elizabeth Mowbray , accompanied by her daughter and a large entourage , set forth from Framlingham a few weeks later . |
22 | In a letter to Gould a few months later , Lear , with characteristic self-pity , excuses his poor output : |
23 | The Bewicks landed at Slimbridge a few days ago after their two thousand mile flight from Siberia . |
24 | As Mr Cardinal had indicated , M. Dupont had not arrived in a good temper ; I can not recall now all the various things that had upset him since his arrival in England a few days previously , but in particular he had obtained some painful sores on his feet while sightseeing around London and these , he feared , were growing septic . |
25 | This second charge came because Ramsey had written an article in the Bishoprick which criticized the evangelistic work of Billy Graham , who led a mission in England a few months before . |
26 | It did this in Tuscany a few years back , when Chianti was in the doldrums . |
27 | When Swift returned to Worcester a few days later , he was greeted with the ringing of bells , illuminations and bonfires , at many of which could be heard the tune of " The King shall have his own again " . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | THE Queen Mother has pulled out of a public engagement for tomorrow and will remain in Scotland a few days longer after her hospital stay . |
30 | The one that was on Jonathan Ross a few weeks ago . |