Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abubakar Mgumia , minister for tourism , natural resources and environment , said : ‘ The hunting of a few elephants by tourists will not affect the number of elephants in the country . ’ |
| 2 | Zen 's barking background could only have been a big plus the day he found a newborn baby whose entire experience of life was going to be lying abandoned for a few hours by a creek near Plymouth . |
| 3 | The driver reversed and the whole thing came away , dragged for a few feet by the car . |
| 4 | The old woman ducked quickly back into her soft cave , to linger for a few seconds by the animal . |
| 5 | Such is fame : our exploit brought us international mention with a few lines by the Canadian Press but our feat was not mentioned in Robert Ripley 's ‘ Believe It or Not ’ column , and we had never heard of the Guinness Book of Records in those early days . |
| 6 | Peurl also wrote four canzoni and these , with a few examples by Hassler and Aichinger , Schein and Scheidt , are practically all that Germany has to show in this genre . |
| 7 | The latter part of the decade saw St Owens Mill start up , followed within a few years by the Island Street and Victoria Street Mills , Luker also involved with the latter . |
| 8 | In addition to the permanent taps , the monitors have been able to tap a conversation on any telephone within a few seconds by means of the TKO device . |
| 9 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 10 | I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner . |
| 11 | What many people need is simple self-catering cheap overnight stays , now satisfied in a few places by Youth Hostels but in need of a much more extensive network . |
| 12 | The greatest songwriting team since Lennon and McCartney are designing the artwork for a Smiths ' compilation to be released in a few months by WEA , who recently purchased the group 's mouth-watering back catalogue . |
| 13 | The newly founded Military Miscellany acquired a readership of 6,000 in a few months by adopting an openly reformist position vis-à-vis the army . |
| 14 | Now and again , of course , you have to deal with the awkward moments , like someone reading aloud from a Sunday paper the ‘ sordid story of perverted vice ’ which has obviously been concocted over a few jars by a hack hounded by deadline . |
| 15 | One of the serious limitations is the total interaction time with the microwaves , limited to a few milliseconds by the speed of the atomic beam and by the separation of the two Ramsey regions . |
| 16 | This may be confirmed on a few sites by the presence of a small cemetery over the site of the original house , after it had been thoroughly demolished , since some of the graves have been dug into the wall foundations , showing an ignorance of their existence . |
| 17 | But their tablatures had been completed around 1530 and cover an older repertory , plus a few pieces by Senfl , and then there is an almost complete gap until Ammerbach published his Orgel oder Instrument Tabulatur in 1571 . |
| 18 | The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere . |