Example sentences of "die a few " in BNC.

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1 The programme concluded with a snatch of birdsong , a low trill , repeated several times before dwindling into silence ; this , the presenter announced , was the song of the dusky seaside sparrow , a species of which the last survivor had died a few days before in its aviary at Disney World in Florida .
2 It was a time of great personal sadness ; his first wife had died in 1927 ; he had married Katherine Harrower-Peters the following year , but she too had died a few months later in an influenza epidemic .
3 Coffey died in Bromley , Middlesex , 26 November 1852 , his eldest son Aeneas having died a few months earlier .
4 Did he know he would die a few years later ?
5 Until she died a few years ago , a wise woman lived there , a strange being who wore outlandish brightly-coloured clothes and had feathers in her hair .
6 When the Bohemian king , Wenceslas IV , heard of the revolt , he was seized by an epileptic fit and died a few days later .
7 In June 1183 , the Young King fell victim to a sudden attack of dysentery and died a few days later .
8 When Louis died a few months later , Thibaut aligned with a league of dissident barons who opposed the regent of France , Louis 's widow Blanche of Castile , but he soon abandoned the barons and reconciled himself with Blanche .
9 The guitarist was Peter ‘ Ollie ’ Halsall who , sadly , died a few weeks ago .
10 Horacio Bento Gouveia 's writings include romantic novels set in Madeira and , although he died a few years ago now , he remains the best known of Madeiran writers .
11 She died a few days later .
12 Another monk , Kelsang Tsering , reportedly died a few weeks later of police wounds .
13 I used to work with him in my mother 's shop — he worked there for twenty-five years , until he died a few years ago .
14 When put to bed he appeared nearly lifeless and died a few hours after . ’ )
15 The world of dance has lost to AIDS not only its two biggest stars of the modern era , Rudolf Nureyev and Jorge Donn , but also many less well-known talents ; they include a French choreographer , Dominique Bagouet , who died a few months ago in his early 30s .
16 In fact Carter 's style as president was probably closest to that of Woodrow Wilson who , as it happens , died a few months before Carter was born in 1924 .
17 She had behaved like this when his grandmother died a few months before .
18 When he died a few days later Philip called off the invasion .
19 Dad died a few years before that — I 'm not sure when .
20 His father died a few months after his birth and his grandmother then ruled as regent .
21 Hervey probably died a few days before 7 February 1277 .
22 He died a few months later , and was buried 27 June 1662 .
23 Laurence del Brok probably died a few days before 25 December 1274 .
24 At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late .
25 My wife died a few months ago . ’
26 The stranger fell ill and died a few days later .
27 Victor Frankenstein died a few hours after he had written his last word .
28 CATHERINE No , she died a few years ago .
29 He died a few months ago . ’
30 When the girl 's parents denied the engagement , the boy was beaten unconscious and died a few hours later in hospital .
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