Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is an active member of the World Wildlife Fund , completely untouched by Central Television 's exposure a few weeks ago , and he carefully disposes of his old sump oil . |
| 2 | He sensed Rodo 's presence a few metres ahead of him . |
| 3 | A new chancellor , unexpectedly shifted from the foreign secretary 's post a few months earlier , delivered a ‘ budget for savers ’ . |
| 4 | They also made the evening gown for her first official engagement , a charity gala in the city of London , which created almost as big a sensation as the dress which graced St Paul 's Cathedral a few months later . |
| 5 | Newman recalled briefly his experience at The Nag 's Head a few hours before he ended up in hospital . |
| 6 | One summer 's day a few years ago , I was about to play a game of tennis . |
| 7 | He provides one of the vagaries of political life , in that in 1984 he was deselected as a European candidate because he believed in the European Community , whereas he was imposed as the Labour party 's candidate a few weeks ago — |
| 8 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 9 | The Magistrate knew , alas , what would be happening when this great volume of water reached the depression made by the giant 's footprint a few miles away … |
| 10 | ‘ Has Eleanor gone ? ’ asked Julius 's voice a few moments later . |
| 11 | And his first goal tends to get forgotten … but it was 100 times better than Cuntona 's effort a few weeks back , and better than Peles effort … in fact probably the best goal of that type ( 45 yard lobs ) youll ever see . |
| 12 | We had arrived in Uulaa 's system a few moments before , and as we drifted down to planetary speed I 'd contacted Frejji on the comm . |
| 13 | We also appealed to the Government to respond to an extraordinary press conference given by the Iranian chargé d'affaires in London on the anniversary of Terry Waite 's imprisonment a few weeks ago , but no-one took much notice of that , either . |
| 14 | The German foreign ministry , for instance , set up in 1890 a colonial department in response to the Reich 's acquisition a few years earlier of a largely valueless empire in Africa and the Pacific . |