Example sentences of "[noun] be [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The Thermai is only 80 metres from the centre of town and both Old Rhodes Town and the nightlife are within a few minutes walk .
2 Many of these organisations are within a few minutes of the King 's Buildings .
3 In b and c , the local times of each point were within a few hours of local noon and so the ClO values may be taken as qualitatively representative of the day maximum , which in run 4 reached 1.1p.p.b.v. at this level .
4 COLIN Jackson was within a few inches of Olympic disaster last night in his bid for the 110 metres hurdles crown .
5 He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others .
6 Yeah we 're going to stay with his mums 's for a few days sh sh
7 For the next 2000 years the abstract/axiomatic approach was with a few exceptions replaced by a more concrete intuitive approach .
8 The temperature of maximum damping is usually associated with T g , and at low frequencies the value assigned to T g is within a few kelvins of that obtained from the static methods .
9 The bird 's flapping became as frantic as a wind-up toy 's for a few seconds , but this quickly petered out and its body became limp .
10 The hiss was clear on MW and LW while the calculator was within a few feet of the set , but not on FM .
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