Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When things are cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero — minus 273.16°C — strange things happen . |
| 2 | Thirdly , the semiconducters used as infrared detectors must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero , and they can measure the brightness of only one small patch of sky at a time , rather than ‘ photograph ’ a whole region of sky at once . |
| 3 | Infrared telescopes must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero to prevent their own heat radiation from swamping the faint signals from space : hence the liquid helium cooling systems which make infrared satellites complex and expensive . |
| 4 | Despite his wide range of achievements , Dall 's name is little known outside of a few groups of specialists . |
| 5 | It was presided over by an Egyptian suffragi known as Mo , who was a mixture of hall porter , diplomat , negotiator and general factotum . |
| 6 | This ambiguity does not greatly alter our conclusions regarding airburst altitude : once an object has spread to , say , twice its initial radius , its further spreading happens so quickly that an ‘ explosion altitude ’ is defined to within a few kilometres , regardless of whether the explosion is taken to occur then or when the object has spread to 5–10 times its initial radius . |
| 7 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
| 8 | ‘ The conventional myth seeks to depict the battle-scarred anthropologist as a lone figure wandering into a village , settling in and ‘ picking up the language ’ in a couple of months ; at the most , we may find references to translators being dispensed with after a few weeks . |
| 9 | These decelerations look reasonably realistic to me , and consistent stopping positions are obtained to within a few cms . |
| 10 | Very strict rules apply to those drugs which in the Act are called ‘ controlled drugs ’ ; each dose has to be accounted for in a Controlled Drugs Register , whether the drug is given in hospital or in the home . |
| 11 | That is a very comprehensive survey , erm I would n't envisage any additional sites being recommended by the City Council , er at the present time , although clearly some of the sites may be suggested by by a private developers and landowners during the consultation process . |