Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] a few [noun pl] earlier " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 2 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 3 | Support for this theory , of an unexpected kind , had been provided a few weeks earlier by network television . |
| 4 | The idea of light coming only in packets , called quanta , had been introduced a few years earlier by the German physicist Max Planck . |
| 5 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 6 | The opposition Conservative Party elected Kaci Kullmann Five as party chair and John Bernander as deputy on April 20 ; Anne Enger Lahnstein had been chosen a few weeks earlier as leader of the agrarian Centre Party . |