Example sentences of "[noun] by [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's a patch of grass a few feet by a few feet , ’ I informed him , suddenly aware that Mr Palmer had never visited Chelsea Terrace in his life . |
| 3 | At Monza , he beat Jochen Rindt by a few feet and the championship was his , even though he did not win another race that season . |
| 4 | " Ah , " he said , when almost out of sight , back in the depths of the room , not far from the small winding-stair he had entered the room by a few minutes earlier . |
| 5 | For index futures there is clear evidence that the futures price leads the spot price by a few minutes , while for lags of a day the evidence is much weaker . |
| 6 | Harris ( 1989a ) and Moriarty , Gordon , Kuserk and Wang ( 1990 ) studied the basis of the S&P500 during the crash and also found that the large negative basis was substantially reduced when allowance was made for stale prices , and that the futures price led the spot price by a few minutes ( even after allowing for the stale prices effect ) . |
| 7 | By the 1930s , the grass flying strip at Monkton , later to be developed into Prestwick Airport , was in regular use by a few pilots , and the aerobatic displays of travelling ‘ flying circuses ’ were a novelty in various parts of Ayrshire . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not a matter of Sun missing volume by a few days , ’ it said , ‘ but by weeks . ’ |
| 9 | The result is that short field performance has been addressed , the propeller pitch has been made finer , reducing the take-off roll to some 804 feet ( hard surface ) , and cutting the cruise performance by a few knots to around 100 . |
| 10 | Among other things , it was found that index futures prices lead spot prices by a few minutes in the USA . |
| 11 | West Mercia police are checking for possible links between the Telford incident and another close by a few weeks ago when a horse was slashed . |
| 12 | To set laws by the few jaws — |
| 13 | In Lo stadio di Wimbledon , the young researcher is drawn in search of his elusive quarry by the few traces that remain : the occasional photograph ; a few letters and other writings ; the memories of surviving contemporaries . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ The turntable ladder only just fitted into the churchyard by a few inches . |
| 15 | This extension , overlapped the Crystal Palace tram route by a few yards . |
| 16 | This is all vindictive-ness by a few individuals . ’ |
| 17 | It does not seem , in general , valuable to postpone death by a few hours at enormous cost . |
| 18 | They found that , for each index , the futures market led the spot market by a few minutes . |
| 19 | As at other sites , the trace metal contamination — first lead , then zinc — predated the onset of acidification by a few decades . |
| 20 | When a little old lady on Weybridge station platform asked the Irish stationmaster why there were two large wall clocks each giving a different time by a few minutes , the answer came in a fine Irish brogue : ‘ Ah , yes ma'am ! |