Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] few [noun pl] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found out a few weeks ago that the canon there says prayers for John every day . ’ |
| 2 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 3 | WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city . |
| 4 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 5 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |
| 6 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 7 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
| 8 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |
| 9 | I hate bathing her in the sink because the kitchen is draughty , especially since a chunk of the wall fell out a few weeks ago . ’ |
| 10 | Erm , Andrew , er , I , I find that earlier on the , the only life cover you 've really got is one that you took out a few years ago , a very small one , and you took that out for a set number of years . |
| 11 | I gave up a few years ago . ’ |
| 12 | Scientific studies carried out a few years ago revealed that regular sunbed users ( those using a bed more than once a week over a period of a few years ) now have a condition called skin fragility syndrome . |
| 13 | The case study is based on an actual consumer behaviour investigation carried out a few years ago by a leading market research agency . |
| 14 | ‘ We had one of those social workers come round a few weeks ago — she was doing a sort of survey of old age pensioners — some idea that they could live on twenty-five shillings a week for food . |
| 15 | ‘ He told me he could n't face the prospect of another divorce , which I understood because my parents split up a few years ago and it was very distressing , ’ she said . |