Example sentences of "die [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 2 | I remember two aunts and an uncle , all very dear to me , dying within a few months . |
| 3 | All anencephalus children are either miscarried , die stillborn , or die within a few weeks of life . |
| 4 | Research has shown that some old people can not survive the emotional shock of moving to the Home and die within a few weeks . |
| 5 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |
| 6 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 7 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 10 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 11 | He told his brother that he was close to death and would die in a few days . |
| 12 | Conceivably the entire lake could die within a few years . |
| 13 | Almost all of them will die within a few weeks of being shed . |
| 14 | Most fatalities from T. canis infection occur during the pulmonary phase , and pups which have been heavily infected transplacentally may die within a few days of birth . |
| 15 | The starts of Flatliners ( 15 ) — including off-screen lovers Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland — find a way to die for a few minutes just to see what life is like ‘ on the other side ’ . |
| 16 | What did it matter if fish died after a few weeks ? |
| 17 | In 1852 he moved with his mother to Sheffield , where she died after a few months . |
| 18 | And er fo for that reason , er you know , Lady got through three fortunes , and I think she di died with a few hundred pounds in the building society , and if you get the timing right , that 's the way to do it . |
| 19 | The Abbot and over half the monks of Battle perished , eight of the thirteen canons of Mitchelham , most of the heads of religious houses , and up to half of the rest of the county 's population died within a few months , although the effects varied from community to community . |
| 20 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
| 21 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 22 | He persuaded her to bring her husband home , where he died within a few weeks . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other . |
| 25 | Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle , only to die within a few months . |