Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] ago [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |
| 2 | At the climax to the debate a few minutes ago the hon. Member for Cunninghame , South ( Mr. Lambie ) was addressing a single Labour Back Bencher . |
| 3 | A few minutes ago the hon. Member for Bristol , East ( Mr. Sayeed ) attacked my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol , South ( Ms. Primarolo ) for being absent from the Chamber for the statement . |
| 4 | Just a few minutes ago the ambulance carrying the two boys arrived at Stoke Mandeville . |
| 5 | ‘ A few minutes ago an old man came to my office . |
| 6 | Why , just a few generations ago the grandparents of this trumped-up charlatan blossomed and grew in orchards that attracted humans and animals alike with the sweet scent of fruit as it hung from the boughs . |
| 7 | A few days ago a farmer from Mt Darwin , the ‘ operational area ’ , came to in lunch . |
| 8 | A few days ago a woman woke up just as she was about to be stuffed with the previous day 's New York Post and varnished with embalming fluid by an undertaker . |
| 9 | A few days ago an elderly gentleman came into a Dublin suburban office with a bouquet of flowers and presented it to a female staff member . |
| 10 | A few days ago an unco-operative van would have sent him back indoors in a state of deep despair . |
| 11 | It will be the first time that the Unita leader has met a British minister , and only a few days ago the Angolan ambassador in London was assured by a Foreign Office official that there were no plans for such a meeting . |
| 12 | Just a few days ago the couple posted a Christmas present to their daughter which will arrive in South Africa in the next week . |
| 13 | A few years ago a minute fossil only about 2 mm long was recovered from limestones of Ordovician age , and christened Janospira . |
| 14 | A few years ago a friend told me that he once started counting them . |
| 15 | Occasionally the enquiry becomes public knowledge ; a few years ago a copy of the authority for an enquiry into a well-known high street retailer appeared on the front page of a national newspaper . |
| 16 | However , there is a great deal of public confusion about the nature of black holes : only a few years ago a television serial depicted astronauts landing on the surface-of one ! |
| 17 | I remember a few years ago a lady bought a jumper to the knitting club , displaying it proudly and saying : ‘ it 's just some out of the washing machine ’ . |
| 18 | Only a few years ago a drug 's prospects were easy to calculate . |
| 19 | Whereas a few years ago a mainframe computer would have been essential to perform corpus processing , a desktop computer now suffices . |
| 20 | Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding . |
| 21 | Was , because a few years ago the hotel burned down and has gone forever . |
| 22 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 23 | But as with Gibson 's non-reverse Thunderbirds — and remember , until a few years ago the same could be said for Fender Jaguars and Jazzmasters — they are just not currently de rigueur . |
| 24 | A few years ago the start was changed from the South Reading Community Centre to the Rivermead Leisure Centre ; the new set-up has proved popular with runners . |
| 25 | The swings had gone and the pier had been demolished ; a few years ago the Council had given permission for a café-and-restaurant to be built , but the place had only been open a month when it caught fire and was burned out ; the Fire Brigade could n't get to it , the promenade being too narrow for their vehicles . |
| 26 | A few years ago the cousin of a Sumatran friend of ours was killed by a singularly persistent elephant . |
| 27 | A few years ago the French would come through the tunnel for an evening at Filippo 's , said Gioachino . |
| 28 | Until a few years ago the parish had the right to nominate one person to the Aims Houses at Cobham , also known as Cobham College . |
| 29 | Most secondary schools have now reached double figures in their stocks of micros — but only a few years ago the authors of a book ( Howe and Ross , 1981 ) could gently suggest that ‘ we can readily envisage the time when every educational institution in the country will have access to at least one microcomputer ’ . |
| 30 | A few years ago an old Aboriginal woman named Lardie Moonlight died in Boulia , a small town in western Queensland . |