Example sentences of "die [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I remember two aunts and an uncle , all very dear to me , dying within a few months .
2 All anencephalus children are either miscarried , die stillborn , or die within a few weeks of life .
3 Research has shown that some old people can not survive the emotional shock of moving to the Home and die within a few weeks .
4 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 .
5 His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 .
6 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 …
7 Father and son had died within a few days of each other …
8 ( 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 . )
9 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 .
10 He told his brother that he was close to death and would die in a few days .
11 Conceivably the entire lake could die within a few years .
12 Almost all of them will die within a few weeks of being shed .
13 Most fatalities from T. canis infection occur during the pulmonary phase , and pups which have been heavily infected transplacentally may die within a few days of birth .
14 The starts of Flatliners ( 15 ) — including off-screen lovers Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland — find a way to die for a few minutes just to see what life is like ‘ on the other side ’ .
15 What did it matter if fish died after a few weeks ?
16 In 1852 he moved with his mother to Sheffield , where she died after a few months .
17 It was the worst air accident in France since 1974 , when 346 people died in a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crash near Paris [ see p. 26426 ] .
18 He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people .
19 He persuaded her to bring her husband home , where he died within a few weeks .
20 The Abbot and over half the monks of Battle perished , eight of the thirteen canons of Mitchelham , most of the heads of religious houses , and up to half of the rest of the county 's population died within a few months , although the effects varied from community to community .
21 Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days .
22 When Miss Louisa had a second more severe stroke at the end of August , and Miss Ellen another heart attack , both old ladies died within a few days of each other .
23 Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other .
24 Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle , only to die within a few months .
25 In the intricate weave of the universe , his was the golden strand , and his sisters ' was dross , part of the vast lumpen-knot of the ordinary , the confined mortal mass that bred and died on a million worlds like some foetid yeast in order to ferment a spirit such as his , a spirit which a God-Emperor could sip .
26 Champion was a friend of two youngsters who died on a stolen police motorbike in July , sparking three nights of rioting in the Hartcliffe area .
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