Example sentences of "from the [noun] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure members will be aware speed speedway received financial assistance from the Council a few years ago when they ran into difficulties . |
| 2 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 3 | It is the generally accepted method of succession in our family , but , ’ the corpse sighed , or at least a sigh came from the air a few feet above it , ‘ it soon became obvious that none of my three children is sufficiently powerful to wrest the lordship of the Wyrmberg from the other two . |
| 4 | A painting by Brueghel the elder was lifted from the Courtauld a few years back . |
| 5 | The first here were from an assart only cut from the woods a few years back , it was a godsend indeed to them . |
| 6 | Once I did this under the eye of a policeman who nabbed me for parking on a yellow line when I emerged from the bank a few minutes later . |
| 7 | Alford , a former councillor , broke away from the party a few years ago , and has stood as an independent Labour candidate in local elections since . |
| 8 | It is tempting , too tempting in fact , to read into this more ideologically restrained account a certain disillusionment with communism and communist party politics which prefigures in some way Nizan 's break from the party a few months later . |