Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] ago [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ But the funniest thing of all , really , was that until just a few hours ago Eddy had been , and now he was not . |
| 2 | Just a few minutes ago Lou Macari left the court buildings with his wife Dale , and his solicitor Stephen Pollard , who made this statement . |
| 3 | A few days ago Li Xiannian , a former President , broke his public silence to support the controversial Three Gorges project to dam the Yangtze , but did not use the occasion to back faster reforms . |
| 4 | A few years ago Jo would have been unable to resist a put-down , but the Hollywood brat had grown up and knew how and when to be gracious . |
| 5 | It seems that a few years ago Mrs Brissett 's daughter 's husband left her and she had trouble finding a job and had no money … and Harriet helped her find a job somewhere . |
| 6 | A few years ago Dr Palcic , Dr Lam and their colleagues started a company called Xillix to build machines to do just that . |
| 7 | 7 & 8 A few years ago Sally Baring of Borderline went into an antique shop and left with an 1895 fabric block . |
| 8 | A few years ago Claythorpe mill was in a state of dilapidation ; a sad , neglected relic of a past long forgotten . |
| 9 | A few years ago Saunderson was a tele-communications student at the local East Michigan University . |
| 10 | The Japanese are number one in terms of imports in the US ceramics market , whereas a few years ago Wedgwood was clearly number one . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ A few years ago Graham Taylor , then at Aston Villa , rang and said I should join the old organisation . |
| 12 | A few years ago Flanders and Swan wrote a patriotic song for this country . |
| 13 | It is interesting that only a few years ago Mr Albert Baker of Baker Bros. , Upper Halling , paid the Vicar part of the cost of wood he had cut in Halling woods . |
| 14 | A few years ago Glen Robins was unemployed and living from hand to mouth . |
| 15 | A few weeks ago Roberta Smith of the New York Times wrote an article expressing a certain degree of ennui over the new decade 's proliferation of ‘ installation art ’ — but it does n't seem to have done much to stem the tide . |
| 16 | ‘ A few weeks ago Middlesbrough were 20–1 for the championship . |
| 17 | Just a few weeks ago Safet was re-united with his mother , wife , and the daughter he had never seen , Emina . |
| 18 | Just as we saw a few weeks ago Zaccheus was , er , between him being up the tree and hitting the ground , that man was converted . |
| 19 | And he revealed that only a few weeks ago Magherafelt traders turned down the option of having security gates erected in the town during a meeting with police . |
| 20 | Asked about whether she thought nationalist tensions would resurface in any significant way , Vera explained : ‘ A few weeks ago Havel said that the word ‘ socialist' ’ would have to be removed from our country 's name . |
| 21 | A FEW weeks ago TeleClub featured Kristian Schmid ( Todd in ‘ Neighbours ’ ) and how he was looking for a boy or girl from Northern Ireland to join his Steel Can Recycling Board . |
| 22 | After getting physically very weak as the result of being unable to eat without extreme discomfort , a few weeks ago Molly was admitted to the Royal Homeopathic Hospital Great Ormond Street where doctors found and dealt with a severe restriction in her stomach . |
| 23 | But just a few weeks ago Keith Atkinson from Malvern in Worcestershire won the right to sue Oxfordshire Health Authority . |
| 24 | A few months ago NME cover stars SEAN HUGHES and CATHAL COUGHLAN announced that they were bringing out an LP together . |
| 25 | ‘ A few months ago Emma was undergoing chemotherapy and was unable to walk , so a train journey would have been very difficult for her . |
| 26 | Paul Hardyman ( full back ) : A few months ago Hardyman was down in the dumps Sunderland had shelled out £350,000 for another left back , Anton Rogan , and his days at Roker looked numbered . |