Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] since [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice . |
| 2 | In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ . |
| 3 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 4 | In the few years since they have been in existence , the colleges of higher education have had little or no guidance , from the DES or anywhere else , as to the directions they might follow . |
| 5 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 6 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 7 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 8 | Fosdyke was all alone , had been for a few days since I had dinner with him in fact . ’ |
| 9 | It 's only a few days since I was sitting in the seats you all occupy , realising the difficult job that a Lord Mayor has to undertake in keeping members in order . |
| 10 | BELFAST jockey Pat McWilliams is beginning to settle down and ride a few winners since he returned from England before Christmas facing an uncertain future . |
| 11 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 12 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 13 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 14 | It does n't seem more than a few months since I was knitting clothes for her dolls — and now — ’ She held up her needles , speared through the left front of a pearly-white matinée jacket . |