Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree with your correspondent 's sentiments regarding the Forth Road Bridge and the removal of the tolls , but he will only be arriving a few minutes earlier at Edinburgh 's infamous Barnton roundabout tailback , which I believe can only be resolved by switching transport policy away from cars and road freight . |
| 2 | Were there quite a few vessels around at that time that were giving assistance ? |
| 3 | Another conference was held a few months later at Geneva , when France 's colonial war in Indochina was brought to an end . |
| 4 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 5 | From the moment in the mid-Eighties when it became known that Baron Thyssen was hunting a new location for his famous collection of paintings housed until only a few months ago at the lakeside Villa Favorita near Lugano , city fathers and heads of state began to vie for the prestige of exhibiting it . |
| 6 | This does not show up in the household statistics because many of these stays were for a brief few months right at the end of life . |
| 7 | A few decades ago at the US Department of Agriculture Experimental Station in Beltsville , Maryland , only female clucks were hatched from synthetically fertilised turkey eggs . |
| 8 | Fox appears a few years later at Churches Mill . |
| 9 | In 1821 , Mr. Pulley resigned and his successor , Thomas Woolridge , a surgeon of the High Street , was appointed at 50 guineas per annum , to be followed himself by Mr. Blower a few years later at a salary of £63 per annum . |
| 10 | ‘ Primitivism ’ the big show that addressed the relationship between the two a few years ago at the Museum of Modern Art got the debate off to a controversial and often acrimonious start . |
| 11 | When she went to Bolsover a few years ago at the time of the salmonella in eggs crisis , she went into South Normanton marketplace and met a woman there who said , ’ Hey you , are you Currie , the one about the salmonella ? ’ |
| 12 | This rude awakening was , however , still a few years away at the time when Dustin joined . |
| 13 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 14 | Ben and Mrs Robinson arrange an assignation a few days later at the swanky Taft Hotel , where , after initial naivety and clumsiness almost make the occasion a farcical disaster , they end up satisfactorily in bed with one another . |
| 15 | Well , I may send a telegram if I can work a few days off at Athens . |
| 16 | Bourke says that he then drove Blake to new accommodation that he had rented a few days earlier at Highlever Road in north Kensington . |
| 17 | The game about to be got under way here , it 's the second time of course that we 've had the taste of European football in just er inside a few weeks here at Lane , a very poor night for weather , you who 've not ventured out well , I think we understand that er because er as we say , it 's not a night when you would turn the dog out . |
| 18 | Merleau-Ponty , who met Nizan a few weeks later at Laurent Casanova 's villa in Porto , recalls that Nizan seemed resigned to the inevitability of war , but still confident in the belief that a tripartite alliance between France , Great Britain and the USSR was a necessary and inevitable prerequisite to the defeat of fascism . |
| 19 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 20 | The revelation comes after speculation that the Princess was receiving assistance after her speech a few weeks ago at an eating disorders conference . |
| 21 | The scene a few weeks ago at St Barnabas ' Hall , Epsom , during the first mother 's and toddlers ' class organised by Jill Kelly and Janice Golding , at the request of the National Childbirth Trust . |
| 22 | They accused him of giving information to the police about a robbery a few weeks earlier at a local company . |
| 23 | Fortunately Pat had lent me a few things so at least I was clean . |
| 24 | ‘ Nevertheless , Mrs Atkins , I would appreciate it if you could answer a few questions down at the station … ’ |
| 25 | Anything that kept her from running into Nicolo Sabatini was absolutely fine , which was why she had been delighted a few mornings later at the breakfast-table when he 'd told her he would be away for a few days . |
| 26 | Then a few soldiers up at the goods store fired into their own men . ’ |
| 27 | If Dedham Hall is fully booked — and it may well be — try the best bed-and-breakfast we have ever found , just a few miles away at the Old Vicarage , Higham , near Colchester . |
| 28 | It might have given him some small comfort to know that , 75 years later , hydro-electric power was successfully produced a few miles away at Coaley Mill . |
| 29 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 30 | A few miles away at Ness Point near Lowestoft , the body of a man wasa found on the seashore . |