Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes of this he grew breathless with anger and rage and flurried his wings so much that he was hardly able to lift them any more he was so tired . |
| 2 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 3 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 4 | But after a few years of this , you ca n't really see any attraction in it , except the security , of course . |
| 5 | After a few days of this treatment , Moz began to feel less threatened by his owner , and began to greet her at the gate . |
| 6 | After a few months of this kind of thing , it was a wonder we did n't automatically walk out of our homes every hour , on the hour , when we were on leave , to look at the weather . |
| 7 | After a few weeks of this , I can guarantee you 'll be feeling quite a different person , and unable to wait to get out for your Sainsbury 's session , or your Waitrose-lifting ! |
| 8 | You may live within a few metres of many if not most of the plant and animal species ever recorded in Britain , and perhaps a few that are new to science . |
| 9 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
| 10 | While she was doing this , within a few minutes of each other came Jasper , then Pat and Bert , then Roberta and Faye . |
| 11 | Within a few minutes of this treatment being given , he was able to button up his coat . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |
| 16 | The escalating cost of these tax benefits would be checked within a few years of this policy being implemented . |
| 17 | Within a few years of this edition Hopkins was firmly established in the canon of English poetry . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 22 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Within a few weeks of this tragedy , on 29 May 1985 , further disaster struck at the European Cup Final between Italy 's Juventus and England 's Liverpool at Brussels ' Heysel Stadium . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
| 30 | Room temperature fusion has been discovered independently and simultaneously by two groups in Utah working within a few miles of each other . |