Example sentences of "[noun] a few [noun pl] ago [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jan Turner says that he helped organise an evererst marathon a few years ago and one sad thing about that was the local runners could not afford the right equipment or did n't have the money to tarin … so he 's here to help them |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Erm , I 'm slightly more concerned though about security in this building and in some of our other main buildings and it brought it home very starkly to me and I 'm sure to all members of the board when we arrived at our meeting a few weeks ago and spent er over two hours standing , we did n't stay out , more or less standing out in the street and . |
| 4 | The catering department at the Dome Leisure Centre , Doncaster , refitted its kitchens a few years ago and , with its suppliers ' advice , chose equipment which anticipated the five degree temperature requirements . |
| 5 | He had a very bad car accident a few months ago and shattered his kneecap . |
| 6 | He called me into his room a few moments ago and said he was leaving . |
| 7 | They 'd moved to their cottage a few years ago and ran an electrical business in Didcot . |
| 8 | It 's not hard to identify some voluntary organisations which were shoe string operations a few years ago but are now lumbering their employees in the hundreds . |
| 9 | ‘ We took the kids out in Windsor a few nights ago and after the meal Ally sang , ‘ It 's now or never ’ to me by the castle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was in China a few years ago and was fascinated to discover there was one bicycle for every thirty Chinese , and you see they 're not going to be distributed very equally are they ? |
| 12 | The multiple orgasm in the woman and rapid recovery of erection after ejaculation in the man were " discovered " by popular writers a few years ago and plugged relentlessly ; yet in the woman one violent orgasm may outweigh several minor ones or the latter may not even be invariably desired , while in the man a rapid re-erection is often physically impossible ( in the more virile youngster it usually takes half to three-quarters of an hour , in the older man anything up to 24 , but there is wide variation between individuals and in differently stimulating situations ) . |
| 13 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
| 14 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
| 15 | I 'll never forget when he came home one night a few months ago and said he 'd met this old man who could tell fortunes by reading the dregs in the bottom of a beer glass . |
| 16 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 17 | Appeal organisers hoped to sell tickets for the prize draw outside the ground a few weeks ago but a cold snap forced the football match to be cancelled . |
| 18 | Many of you will be aware of the launch of the Brecon Beacons National Park Society a few weeks ago and are perhaps wondering what effect this will have on the activities of CPRW and this branch in particular . |
| 19 | He remembers driving up the road a few years ago and accosting a stranger who was dabbling in a stream with what looked like a frying-pan . |
| 20 | But really I do n't think so , although I did speak to the Reading manager Ian Porterfield a few minutes ago and he does seem relaxed and so do his players , so you know I am a little worried now , now we 're getting nearer kick-off I 'm beginning to get a little more worried . |
| 21 | One member of the defence team estimated that Newall 's brother , Mark , a broker based in Paris who was arrested on the same charges a few days ago and now faces extradition from France , has paid more than £100,000 so far in legal costs in Gibraltar . |
| 22 | The number of top lady paddlers in sprint , shalom and coaching is legion and it would be invidious of me to select names although one has honoured canoeing by being awarded an MBE a few years ago and more recently one has completed almost the ultimate in canoe expeditions by paddling round the Horn . |
| 23 | It 's interesting because I was in Nottingham a few weeks ago and actually on Nottingham market they sell a lot of goat meat |
| 24 | I know that he has first-hand experience of the benefits of GM schools , as the school that used to be known as Wold Newton transferred to grant-maintained status a few months ago and is showing the way and what can be achieved as a result of a move to grant-maintained status . |
| 25 | says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’ |
| 26 | The oilmen arrived in the Herefordshire hills a few days ago and they 've already started drilling . |
| 27 | John Blair-Gould , defending , told the court she had left her £15,000-a-year job with a film distribution company a few weeks ago and would be working as a freelance , reviewing books and films . |