Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Graham Greene , in Panama a few years earlier , noticed a similar style of popular consultation and accessibility being used by General Omar Torrijos and his government , and suggested that the country " had evolved a very different form of democracy " from Britain 's , but one with its own validity .
2 ‘ 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 .
3 A problem graphically illustrated in Swindon a few years
4 This show is a kind of extension of club events I did in LA a few years back which used computer graphics , big projections , dance music and crowds .
5 These had followed a similarly successful event held in Brussels a few years ago for members in Belgium .
6 yeah , that , that 's how I bought it in Sainsburys a few years ago
7 THE Queen Mother has pulled out of a public engagement for tomorrow and will remain in Scotland a few days longer after her hospital stay .
8 ‘ 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 .
9 ‘ I do , ’ I said , ‘ in my own ward and when I can special a patient right through , as I did my classic pneumonia girl in Hope a few weeks ago .
10 This second charge came because Ramsey had written an article in the Bishoprick which criticized the evangelistic work of Billy Graham , who led a mission in England a few months before .
11 As Mr Cardinal had indicated , M. Dupont had not arrived in a good temper ; I can not recall now all the various things that had upset him since his arrival in England a few days previously , but in particular he had obtained some painful sores on his feet while sightseeing around London and these , he feared , were growing septic .
12 He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy .
13 It did this in Tuscany a few years back , when Chianti was in the doldrums .
14 And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier .
15 ‘ You got together again in Sydney a few years ago , I 'm told , and here you are a third time .
16 De Gaulle 's argument against Mendès-France was essentially the same that he had used against Eisenhower in Strasbourg a few months earlier : circumstances matter .
17 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 ?
18 ‘ Stein crossed the border near Echternach in Luxembourg a few hours ago .
19 OUT OF the throng of Tibetan pilgrims on the sacred Barkhor street in Lhasa a few weeks ago emerged six young women in maroon gowns and bare heads .
20 That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later .
21 Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads .
22 At a business seminar in Australia a few years ago , Kerry Packer described his method of obtaining loans : ‘ Make sure you get the bankers to come to your office .
23 Last week Yamaguchi , 20 , added the women 's ice skating world title to the Olympic gold she won in France a few weeks earlier .
24 He was one of the three walking brothers who had stopped their walk to admire the May-Day dance in Marlott a few years before .
25 Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women .
26 and I 'm not convinced , I am not convinced that they , that they are anywhere near the standard they used to be when they were last in Europe a few seasons ago
27 Mind you , I was in a pub in Manchester a few months ago when Eric Le Prat walked in , but that 's a different story …
28 Mind you , I was in a pub in Manchester a few months ago when Eric Le Prat walked in , but that 's a different story …
29 Well , I , I , I mean I 've been to one , to a meeting , they had in Manchester a few years ago , Irene 's been to some .
30 Unfortunately living in Ireland I do n't see much of the team but I was lucky enough to be in Southampton a few weeks ago to see them beat Southampton about the head a little .
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