Example sentences of "[verb] died [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 2 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 3 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 4 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 5 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 6 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |