Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treating , perhaps fortunately , cut his visit short for after a few nights of festivities he was stony broke . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 3 | Usual anti-climax — old birds standing round a bit o' grass at t'back they 'd got lease of for a few hours , wi' a garden label saying Mrs Edna Morrison and a few bunches of chrysanths put in rows . |
| 4 | What I think of as a few steps along the beach in the Isle of Wight suffices to pass the Middle Oligocene , but I find this amounts to untold thousands of feet of sediment in New Guinea . |
| 5 | When state-supported secondary education was introduced in 1878 , a denominational system was officially set up , though at this time the system was only availed of by the few families who could afford to lose the labour of young teenagers . |
| 6 | What in the world would the company be like in a few years ' time if such people were in the driving seat ? |
| 7 | I can just imagine what it 's gon na look like in a few years when it gets |
| 8 | ‘ I shall give him to the Geimhreadh to play with for a few nights , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ The conventional myth seeks to depict the battle-scarred anthropologist as a lone figure wandering into a village , settling in and ‘ picking up the language ’ in a couple of months ; at the most , we may find references to translators being dispensed with after a few weeks . |
| 10 | pigeon hole , you know it 's just like bit of , scrap of paper with like a few names on it |
| 11 | The Churchill Government inherited a highly efficient system of Cabinet and official committees , but with in a few months officials were complaining that the neat system consolidated by Clement Attlee was in disarray . |
| 12 | Comparison of data adjusted by the prescribing unit and the new index with authority averages produced no significant differences except for in a few practices with skewed age-sex demography . |
| 13 | A market for imported grapefruit , that grew from zero to several million dollars worth in a few months , was destroyed even more quickly . |
| 14 | From from a few weeks old she 'd be sitting on on there was an old er wreck of a boat there . |
| 15 | Another thing we 're going to talk to somebody from the N S P C C who 's coming in in a few moments to talk about Halloween trick or treating and stuff like that . |
| 16 | The warts are all there too for without a few blemishes I think it would be a rather dull story . |
| 17 | I do n't really want to go on to for a few minutes . |
| 18 | If you go to for a few days . |
| 19 | I could n't think of anything I 'd promised anybody and I had n't anything musical on for a few days , so that was all right . |
| 20 | Nor was it powerful enough , outside of a few streets with Prussian generals ' names , to force through a genuinely modern network of boulevards . |
| 21 | Despite his wide range of achievements , Dall 's name is little known outside of a few groups of specialists . |
| 22 | These decelerations look reasonably realistic to me , and consistent stopping positions are obtained to within a few cms . |
| 23 | It appeared to have a road running to within a few kilometres . |
| 24 | This ambiguity does not greatly alter our conclusions regarding airburst altitude : once an object has spread to , say , twice its initial radius , its further spreading happens so quickly that an ‘ explosion altitude ’ is defined to within a few kilometres , regardless of whether the explosion is taken to occur then or when the object has spread to 5–10 times its initial radius . |
| 25 | On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites . |
| 26 | Over the three days that Forester had been observing , his schedule had been consistent to within a few minutes either way . |
| 27 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |
| 28 | Large grocery multiples and the oil companies have led the way in retail modelling , and some now reckon to be able to predict new store or site performance to within a few percentage points . " |
| 29 | With five horizontal and vertical fan bladed thrusters , it is capable of turning completely on its axis of moving helicopter-like in any direction to within a few centimetres of where it is directed . |
| 30 | Signals from orbiting satellites forming the Global Positioning System ( GPS ) can be used to pinpoint the location of objects on the surface of the Earth to within a few centimetres ; a computer mapping system carried within a car ( and receiving the car 's position from GPS ) could , given suitable software , be capable of displaying a map showing the car 's location and suggesting alternative routes , such as the shortest , fastest , most economical or most scenic route . |