Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | Their eyesight can be corrected in just a few minutes by the use of a lasers . |
| 7 | It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | The driver reversed and the whole thing came away , dragged for a few feet by the car . |
| 10 | In his famous concluding paragraph of The Origin of Species Darwin expressed wonder that the diversity of the organic world can have been produced from one or a few ancestors by the operation of several natural laws — ‘ there is grandeur in this view of life … ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The old woman ducked quickly back into her soft cave , to linger for a few seconds by the animal . |