Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The feel of them brought him back into the attic room , to the confusion that made a few words on a piece of paper into a lifeline . |
2 | The new calendar , now known as the ‘ Young-Avestan calendar ’ appears to have been adopted in the reign of Cambyses ' great successor Darius I. The most thorough and plausible investigation of the date of its introduction is that made a few years ago by the distinguished historian of ancient astronomy the late Willy Hartner of Frankfurt University . |
3 | All this under a Tory Government which admits its PSBR is to be double that proposed a few months ago . |
4 | But she liked the money , and the new house , and the new dresses — and the six fields of apple trees and the big farm north of Stratford that came a few years later . |
5 | I 'd have preferred a book that told a few truths , or even a few lies . |
6 | Even now a fast ion may be shooting through you that escaped a few days ago from the Jovian magnetosphere . |
7 | What 's more , I intend to say it properly , ’ he declared , reducing speed to turn into a parking area that lay a few yards ahead . |
8 | Then , I looked again at a superficially rather strange SF trilogy that appeared a few months ago ( Schrodinger 's Cat , by Robert Anton Wilson , sphere , 1982 ) . |