Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Many of these organisations are within a few minutes of the King 's Buildings .
2 Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole .
3 Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt .
4 Bloody film star he ought to be , not a and he you see him on the television , he 's been on a few times at night !
5 This imagery is even more extraordinary when one considers that in this country , the Christian Churches are among the few places of worship where women can go whether they are menstruating or not .
6 It was built in 876 , and those ancient parts of the church that remain are among the few fragments from that time that still exist , not only in Milan , but also in Lombardy .
7 The overnight passage to Aberdeen was wild and stormy and my brother Ian and I were amongst the few passengers on board capable of doing proper justice to the excellent dinner provided .
8 In b and c , the local times of each point were within a few hours of local noon and so the ClO values may be taken as qualitatively representative of the day maximum , which in run 4 reached 1.1p.p.b.v. at this level .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 They had blue-chip credit standing , and were among the few counterparties with plenty of fixed-rate interest payments to swap for floating-rate ones .
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 The evidence for increased transmitter release is strongest for STP , that is from a few seconds to an hour or so after the inductive event .
14 It has hardly been recognised that India is among the few countries in the world that has a proven capability to undertake orbital missions or detonate a nuclear device .
15 One minute there he was with a few scraps of grey hair plastered across his scalp — the next he looks like a prizewinner at Cruft 's Dog Show .
16 The most that was achieved was in a few examples of new highway construction ( in London the long-standing schemes of the Great West Road and the North Circular came to fruition ) ; and in the bigger cities , there were road-widening schemes , some stretches of dual carriageway and the occasional new project ( such as the Headrow in Leeds linked to redevelopment ) and some spectacular new projects ( such as the new suspension bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle and the Mersey Tunnel at Liverpool/Birkenhead ) .
17 COLIN Jackson was within a few inches of Olympic disaster last night in his bid for the 110 metres hurdles crown .
18 When she was within a few feet of the ground , the cat leapt from her and rubbed itself against its mistress 's legs .
19 The hiss was clear on MW and LW while the calculator was within a few feet of the set , but not on FM .
20 The second man ducked back around the corner and Maxim backed off crouching and aiming until he was within a few metres of the cross-street .
21 Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination .
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