Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] early [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 2 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
| 3 | A few minutes earlier Ruth would have welcomed the idea of everyone going off to sleep ( not that Sean showed any sign of doing so ) as an opportunity for her to indulge in her own thoughts , but the fits of uninhibited laughter had restored her to something nearer to normality , and at last she was present with her companions in mind as well as in the flesh . |
| 4 | Over supper Gardiner and Foxe explained how a few days earlier Cardinal Campeggio , the Papal Legate had refused to take a decision on the King 's petition for a divorce from Queen Catherine of Aragon and had transferred the case to Rome . |
| 5 | Only a few days earlier England had been knocked out of the World Cup by West Germany . |
| 6 | Now it happened that a few days earlier Jones had called up Lee R. Phillips , an attorney associated with Brigham Young University , in order to file a patent arising from his muon-fusion work . |
| 7 | A few days earlier Ouedraogo had been dismissed as secretary-general of the Organization for People 's Democracy-Labour Movement ( ODP — MT ) , the dominant grouping within the Front , reportedly for having displayed " serious failures of principle and party policy " . |
| 8 | A few months earlier La Fresnaye , a member of the jury of the Salon d'Automne of 1913 , had written , ‘ painting is clearly becoming more abstract . ’ |
| 9 | A few months earlier Lord Wheatley spoke on behalf of all the High Court judges in Scotland . |