Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun] of the " in BNC.
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31 | Within a few yards of the school are a filling station , fire station , police HQ , and the entrance to the rail station and Great Eastern Square shopping complex car park . |
32 | Within a few yards of the summit you can find fir clubmoss huperzia selago , and mountain azalea loiseleuria procumbens , both delightful finds for the plant hunter . |
33 | Mr Barker said he had n't insisted that the customer should produce a banker 's card because she lived within a few doors of the shop . |
34 | In any case , one or another form of ‘ Christianity ’ must have reached Britain within a few years of the time specified by Gildas . |
35 | But within a few years of the end of the war , responsibility for trunk roads , gas , electricity , national assistance and hospital services had been transferred from local to central government control . |
36 | Within a few years of the introduction of the Dip.AD , it became apparent that all was not well and discontent in some of the art colleges culminated in the so-called ‘ revolution ’ of 1968 which centred on the then Hornsey and Guildford Colleges of Art . |
37 | How the serious issues emerged within a few years of the miracle of Heliodorus is the question . |
38 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |
39 | The collection from the nest was made within a few days of the fledglings leaving the nest , and the broken up and trampled remains of pellets and bones from the nest can be mostly attributed to the regurgitated pellets of the fledglings . |
40 | This hormone is produced by the developing embryo within a few days of the egg being fertilised . |
41 | A political truce was called within a few days of the outbreak of war ; a pact to end contested by-elections was first signed on 6 August , and a joint recruiting drive began before the end of the month . |
42 | When I went to Germany within a few days of the end of the war , it was rather remarkable to go to a Luftwaffe air field with many aircraft , all intact and fully serviceable , but with their tanks — dry not a drop of oil was to be found on those bases . |
43 | Within a few weeks of the outbreak of war , the Luftwaffe had a new name for the east coast of Scotland where the skies were patrolled by the young men of the City of Glasgow Squadron , and its leaders , Wing Commander Farquhar , Group Captain the Duke of Hamilton , and Squadron Leader Johnstone . |
44 | Within a few weeks of the payout , Mr Curtis claimed , £1 million had vanished from their Inca Gemstones company , and been partly used for ‘ unlawful or improper purposes , ’ hidden from shareholders . |
45 | That Kellynch Hall must be let , ‘ a beloved home made over to others ’ , is deeply felt ; but , within a few weeks of the Crofts ' arrival as tenants , Anne ‘ could not but in conscience feel that they were gone who deserved not to stay , and that Kellynch-hall had passed into better hands than its owners . ’ |
46 | Within a few weeks of the Ashleys moving in , she drove up , knocked on the door and welcomed them to the area . |
47 | This is done for its own sake but it is found that the primary sufferer will quite commonly seek treatment through his or her appropriate Anonymous Fellowship within a few months of the family member seeking his or her own recovery . |
48 | However , within a few overs of the start , we were off to the newsroom , and cries of disbelief were audible from living-rooms all around the country . |
49 | The travelling chaos of a modern party leader 's election entourage had carried Major within a few miles of the home of the founder of the profession , a few of whose more troublesome contemporary practitioners are said to have caused him much irritation over the 16 months of his premiership . |
50 | They set off quite cheerily , but when they were within a few miles of the tarmac coast road , the truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch . |
51 | 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 . |
52 | Easily Accessible : There is a large number of footpaths and bridleways in the area , and two long-distance paths , the Oxford Way and the Cotswold Way , pass within a few miles of the hotel . |
53 | Police here are publicising facilities within a few miles of the road . |
54 | I can offer an account of what the minimum level to be attained at 16 by 80%-90% of pupils would entail in a few areas of the curriculum … ; in English , pupils would need to demonstrate that they are attentive listeners and confident speakers when dealing with everyday matters of which they have experience , that they can read straightforward written information and pass it on — orally and in written form — without loss of meaning and that they can say clearly what their own views are ; in Mathematics , that they can apply the topics and skills in the foundation list proposed in the Cockcroft Report ; in Science , that they are willing and able to take a practical approach to problems , involving sensible observations and appropriate measurements and can communicate their findings effectively … ; in History , that they possess some historical knowledge and perspective , understand the concepts of cause and consequence , and can compare and extract information from historical evidence and be aware of its limitations ; and in CDT [ craft , design and technology ] , that they can design and make something , using a limited range of materials and calling on a restricted range of concepts and give an account of what they have done and the problems they encountered . |
55 | If that is a problem , ( limited to a few versions of the AMI bios ) a full fix involves doing without Stealth in QEMM , which may be a trade off ardent QEMM users do not wish to make . |
56 | A primitive shading is found on a few vases of the generation before , by the Brygos Painter for instance to indicate the roundness of shields ; and in this time it appears , very sparingly , both in red-figure and on another class of Attic vase which we have not yet considered , those with a white slip . |
57 | Our discussion this time will restrict itself much more to the two chosen passages , and will need only to take a brief look at a few details of the narratives leading up to them , and at the stories that immediately follow them . |
58 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
59 | ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . ) |