Example sentences of "by a few [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been told to take off times , but if there 's one certainty , they 'll be rescheduled by a few hours before the season starts . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Among other things , it was found that index futures prices lead spot prices by a few minutes in the USA . |
| 4 | ( 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 . ) |
| 5 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |
| 6 | Each shot is accompanied by a few paragraphs about the subject 's history , or why he chose to photograph it . |