Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When things are cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero — minus 273.16°C — strange things happen . |
| 2 | Thirdly , the semiconducters used as infrared detectors must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero , and they can measure the brightness of only one small patch of sky at a time , rather than ‘ photograph ’ a whole region of sky at once . |
| 3 | Infrared telescopes must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero to prevent their own heat radiation from swamping the faint signals from space : hence the liquid helium cooling systems which make infrared satellites complex and expensive . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 5 | When it came to within a few days of my scheduled departure date , I said to Michael , ‘ I suppose it 's too late now . ’ |
| 6 | At dawn they were well hidden in a cave and the following night they were able to march to within a few miles of the beach where they were to be picked up . |
| 7 | I can just imagine what it 's gon na look like in a few years when it gets |
| 8 | ‘ I shall give him to the Geimhreadh to play with for a few nights , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Leading to within a few yards of it was a public right-of-way . |
| 10 | I like a picture to be fairly full as if it is too empty it can become boring to look at after a few months , but it is very easy to get carried away with all your lovely pressed flowers and try to fit them all into one picture — using too many flowers looks just as bad as not using enough . |
| 11 | Another thing we 're going to talk to somebody from the N S P C C who 's coming in in a few moments to talk about Halloween trick or treating and stuff like that . |
| 12 | Only when she was on the other side of the car could she gain a clear view of Maurice and only then by closing to within a few yards . |
| 13 | It appeared to have a road running to within a few kilometres . |
| 14 | Despite his wide range of achievements , Dall 's name is little known outside of a few groups of specialists . |
| 15 | During a match against Parr 's XI Felix was fielding at point for Sampson 's batting and he persisted in approaching to within a few feet of the batsman . |
| 16 | On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites . |
| 17 | That contrasts with what some policies will lead to in a few years time if we are going to have complete closure of some long stay hospitalS . |
| 18 | This ambiguity does not greatly alter our conclusions regarding airburst altitude : once an object has spread to , say , twice its initial radius , its further spreading happens so quickly that an ‘ explosion altitude ’ is defined to within a few kilometres , regardless of whether the explosion is taken to occur then or when the object has spread to 5–10 times its initial radius . |
| 19 | If you go to for a few days . |
| 20 | What I think of as a few steps along the beach in the Isle of Wight suffices to pass the Middle Oligocene , but I find this amounts to untold thousands of feet of sediment in New Guinea . |
| 21 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
| 22 | ‘ The conventional myth seeks to depict the battle-scarred anthropologist as a lone figure wandering into a village , settling in and ‘ picking up the language ’ in a couple of months ; at the most , we may find references to translators being dispensed with after a few weeks . |
| 23 | These decelerations look reasonably realistic to me , and consistent stopping positions are obtained to within a few cms . |
| 24 | Using his binoculars , he watched the ball roll to within a few feet of the bunker into which he himself had dived that day when he had played with Richie , Dr. Stevie and Sir Bryan . |