Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] [noun] [prep] each " in BNC.
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1 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
2 | Do you consider that the inspector is right to assess emoluments on the director , and if so is it correct to charge emoluments for the whole year when the director only uses the property for a few weekends in each year ? |
3 | We stand for a few moments in each other 's arms , and I ask what we should do this evening . |
4 | Add chicken portions and cook over a high heat for a few mins on each side until brown . |
5 | Except for a few people in each country who tried to keep protest alive , everyone else shares responsibility . |
6 | He walked once , twice round the table on the dais , pausing for a few seconds behind each chair . |
7 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
8 | While she was doing this , within a few minutes of each other came Jasper , then Pat and Bert , then Roberta and Faye . |
9 | Originally ascribed to the 1660s it now seems highly likely that they date from the 1630s and were made within a few years of each other . |
10 | When Miss Louisa had a second more severe stroke at the end of August , and Miss Ellen another heart attack , both old ladies died within a few days of each other . |
11 | Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other . |
12 | Observations were taken over three weekdays within a few days of each other to cover the period between 8.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. , so that at each datapoint there were 1980 ( 11 hours x 60 minutes x 3 ) observations of activity for each individual . |
13 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
14 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |
15 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
16 | Last year , Britain hosted within a few weeks of each other the Moscow City Ballet , Moscow Classical Ballet , Moscow Ballet La Classique and the Russian State Ballet . |
17 | The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other . |
18 | To bring out the contrast with UK policy , we can consider a specific case , that of the MMC inquiry into the White Salt Market. ; Two firms supplied virtually the entire UK salt market and , over the 13 year period taken by the MMC , their prices had been identical and had changed identically within a few weeks of each other . |
19 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
20 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
21 | Room temperature fusion has been discovered independently and simultaneously by two groups in Utah working within a few miles of each other . |
22 | Police in north Oxfordshire believe the same thieves may have been behind two separate raids within a few miles of each other at Steeple Aston ; both raids were part of a spate of break-ins reported to police in the Fox F M area . |
23 | But such generalizations as these , while perhaps being applicable to a few individuals of each country , can reasonably be said to be prejudiced statements based on inadequate sampling . |
24 | In the following sections , I shall look at a few examples of each type of problem with some illustrations from my own work . |