Example sentences of "took place a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |
| 2 | The gathering of about 90 delegates from most Highland denominations took place a year after the churches ' first AIDS conference . |
| 3 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 4 | The ceremony took place a week early during the end-of-term Mass because the pupils will be on their Easter holidays on Maundy Thursday . |
| 5 | A Scotland Yard spokesman said detectives received 30–40 new pieces of information after Thursday 's reconstruction , which took place a week after the murder of 47-year-old Miss Bradley , whose boyfriend was teacher Nick Osborne , from Felsted School , near Great Dunmow , Essex . |