Example sentences of "space [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the space of a few days an apartment building is burned down by drug dealers who suspect a rival crack gang of operating in its basement . |
| 32 | Example 44 is from ‘ Vissi d'arte ’ in Tosca at a point where the orchestra plays the melody ( small notes ) while the singer weaves a web of narration in different ways — reciting , joining the orchestral melody , forming a decorative counter-melody , etc. — all within the space of a few bars : There is great skill here , yet nobody seems to have recognized it for what it really is — the solution for preserving melodic and formal unity while at the same time using words with freedom and flexibility . |
| 33 | Quite remarkably , within the space of a few months , the industry reshaped and refashioned itself in advance of 27 October 1986 , the day on which the deregulation of commissions was to take place . |
| 34 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
| 35 | In the space of a few months in late 1925 , Nizan joined and left the French fascist movement , Le Faisceau , led by Georges Valois , and in an equally short space of time in early 1926 , he joined the French communist party for the first time and subsequently left . |
| 36 | In 1939 history intervened and in the space of a few months the work of a lifetime was in ruins . |
| 37 | Now his awareness of the new pictorial possibilities which Picasso had instinctively hit upon in the Demoiselles and his study of the work of Cézanne ( whose influence , indeed , can already be sensed in the Baigneuse ) were to make him , within the space of a few months , a major force in twentieth-century painting . |
| 38 | There he was force-fed poppy-water , an extract of opium guaranteed to leave the drinker crippled and quite insane within the space of a few months . |
| 39 | It was the second suicide connected with the university in the space of a few months . |
| 40 | Where else would one be teaching black Robotic dancers , a dancer from the Stuttgart Ballet , seven pretty Chinese girls , a female weightlifter , a University oarswoman , ex-dancers , ex-aerobicists , with the rest of us , in the space of a few months . |
| 41 | I still remember the dirty liquid in my school test tube suddenly turning a brilliant turquoise , then shocking pink and then back to grey all in the space of a few seconds . |
| 42 | Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town . |
| 43 | He had accused , judged , and branded her all in the space of a few seconds . |
| 44 | In the space of a few cuts , he had a thick growth of stubble , his shirtfront was soiled with liquor , his hair was wild and his tails were tattered . |
| 45 | In the space of a few weeks they went from favouring broadly no change in taxation ( which is what the chancellor gave them ) to yearning for the rod — in one case a tax rise of £5 billion-10 billion . |
| 46 | Life , for the short space of a few weeks , was better than she had ever known it . |
| 47 | By the end of January , most people will have left a trail of broken New Year Resolutions in their wake , resuming all of their bad habits within the space of a few weeks . |
| 48 | One animal has narrowly escaped death twice in the space of a few weeks as Simon Garrett reports |
| 49 | A family who are believed to have raided five jewellers ' shops in the space of a few weeks are being hunted by police . |