Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] [art] [det] [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 | Simultaneously with clinical observations such as these , academic psychologists were also beginning to incorporate a similar idea into their models of normal cognitive functioning and most contemporary theories of human information processing contain the notion of a mechanism that screens and selects the products of consciousness ; necessarily so , since organised thought would be impossible without some device that allows the mind to choose from among the many stimuli — both internal and external — with which it is constantly bombarded . |
| 6 | When it came to within a few days of my scheduled departure date , I said to Michael , ‘ I suppose it 's too late now . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Reliability , simplicity , small size and light weight are the things to look for in the many models on the market today . |
| 9 | Lyric poetry is not subjective in the ordinary sense ; and in its freedom from subjectivity it should be thought of in the same terms as music . |
| 10 | I can just imagine what it 's gon na look like in a few years when it gets |
| 11 | ‘ I shall give him to the Geimhreadh to play with for a few nights , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Leading to within a few yards of it was a public right-of-way . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When state-supported secondary education was introduced in 1878 , a denominational system was officially set up , though at this time the system was only availed of by the few families who could afford to lose the labour of young teenagers . |
| 15 | Professional fees may be shared and partnerships entered into with the same categories of persons as under Solicitors ' Practice Rule 7 ( see above ) and also with a lawyer qualified in another jurisdiction . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It appeared to have a road running to within a few kilometres . |
| 19 | Despite his wide range of achievements , Dall 's name is little known outside of a few groups of specialists . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The likes of Gordon Brown , Tony Blair , John Smith and Martin O'Neill have made good impressions , though Neil Kinnock , who got on famously badly with Ronald Reagan but adequately with Mr Bush , is still often referred to by the few Americans who pay any attention to British politics as ‘ the Welsh windbag ’ . |
| 22 | This was called ‘ ganging a sitting ’ in Hawkshead , and it was referred to in the same terms across the country at Dent . |
| 23 | On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If you go to for a few days . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | These decelerations look reasonably realistic to me , and consistent stopping positions are obtained to within a few cms . |