Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [prep] each [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stand for a few moments in each other 's arms , and I ask what we should do this evening . |
| 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 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
| 4 | While she was doing this , within a few minutes of each other came Jasper , then Pat and Bert , then Roberta and Faye . |
| 5 | You 've got as long as it , it takes but it wo n't take , I should think , more than a few minutes for each group er to do their presentation . |
| 6 | This limits the degree of possible grazing or nibbling and explains why deer and cattle , for example , will eat just a few mouthfuls from each tree before moving on . |
| 7 | I first started to write at school and I 'd charge a few pence for each story — you should have seen what I was writing for the girls . |
| 8 | But if we behave normally like saying a few words to each other , the supervisors start shouting and harassing us . |
| 9 | you see We was working together and you know a a few benches from each other and of course as I told you the the lads worked with a man . |
| 10 | In the following sections , I shall look at a few examples of each type of problem with some illustrations from my own work . |
| 11 | It is useful to jot down a few examples under each point as this aids understanding and memory . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was tough on the aircrews though , going out night after night to drop bombs on targets they could n't see through the murk and the searchlights , but perhaps this very impersonality kept them going — that and the fact that they were young and usually had a few days between each mission when they could recuperate in the relative peace and tranquility of the English countryside . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 18 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Except for a few people in each country who tried to keep protest alive , everyone else shares responsibility . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Room temperature fusion has been discovered independently and simultaneously by two groups in Utah working within a few miles of each other . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Finally I took a few ends of each colour ( I had n't got much to deal with ) and knitted pieces about twenty stitches by twenty rows , clipped them all together and sent them in with my resignation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | You can have a much longer list if you feel you require it , or spend a few weeks on each goal before adding another goal . |
| 29 | He walked once , twice round the table on the dais , pausing for a few seconds behind each chair . |
| 30 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |