Example sentences of "[noun prp] a few [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | After her move from New York to New Mexico a few years ago , Rothenberg became neighbours with another aritst who has strongly influenced her career , Agnes martin . |
| 2 | These had followed a similarly successful event held in Brussels a few years ago for members in Belgium . |
| 3 | yeah , that , that 's how I bought it in Sainsburys a few years ago |
| 4 | , the PA at the fine art people took me to Perth Theatre one Friday a few weeks ago to see a stupendous , lively , robust performance of ‘ Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off ’ I could see it again , it was so good . |
| 5 | The band does n't occupy all our time , but we 're alive and we 're well ; I spoke to David a few weeks ago , and we 're trying to juggle the schedules to go into the studio early next year . ’ |
| 6 | In France , Jean-Pierre Chevènement , who resigned as defence minister shortly after the outbreak of war , accused the United States a few years ago of ‘ the organised cretinisation of our people . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | What is the true story of the Japanese businessman who returned a stolen Impressionist painting to France and was decorated for it by President Mitterrand on the occasion of the reopening of the Louvre a few years ago ? |
| 9 | The Bewicks landed at Slimbridge a few days ago after their two thousand mile flight from Siberia . |
| 10 | The one that was on Jonathan Ross a few weeks ago . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Ferrasse 's low-key reaction to the incident contrasted vividly with his robust treatment of Jean-Pierre Garuet after the Lourdes prop was sent off in an international against Ireland a few years ago . |
| 13 | She moved into North Yorkshire a few weeks ago from Mulhous Zoo in France with everyone believing her to be one of only eight Lears Macaws in captivity anywhere . |
| 14 | He left Darlington Hockey Club for Norton a few seasons ago to improve his standard of play and his new club is currently lying fourth in the prestigious northern premier league . |
| 15 | ‘ You got together again in Sydney a few years ago , I 'm told , and here you are a third time . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not really me , ’ he had confided to Robert a few months ago , as the two were on a bus , on their way to the Megabowl in Kingston . |
| 17 | He said he had been aware of the consequences when he picked Mr Jackson a few weeks ago . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Siouxsie Sioux , about ten years ago , adopting a pose very similar to that of P J Harvey a few weeks ago , only she was wearing a Greek fisherman 's hat |
| 21 | On a trip to the Dolomites a few years ago , four of us brought three different stoves between us rashly thinking we had all angles covered . |
| 22 | ‘ Stein crossed the border near Echternach in Luxembourg a few hours ago . |
| 23 | The National Football League was nervous about London 's reaction to the first game at Wembley a few years ago , and whether it would be profitable . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | The big match is at Coundon Road , where Hereford , who took on the might of Bath a few seasons ago try to kill the giants of Coventry . |
| 26 | ‘ I remember now , he 's the gipsy child Mr Earnshaw brought home from Liverpool a few years ago . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I was very privileged to meet her when I visited Georgia a few years ago : a remarkable and very courageous woman . |
| 29 | My sister-in-law was allowed to visit Palestine a few years ago . |
| 30 | Mr Hill won £6,000 with Littlewoods a few years ago . |