Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] within [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 THE Director of Public Prosecutions , Mr Allan Green , QC , is expected to decide within a few weeks whether to press corporate manslaughter charges against British Rail , the Crown Prosecution Service said yesterday .
2 He promised to return within a few weeks , bearing a bonnet of fashionable design .
3 The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here .
4 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 …
5 Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty .
6 The therapist realized that some changes in the couples ' situation would have to occur within a few days if another crisis were to be avoided .
7 It gets larger , and dormant chick genes become reactivated within a few days .
8 The calculation behind the memorial was naturally that most of the women would leave to get married within a few years .
9 There was a movement in the undergrowth and a rabbit bobbed out into the clearing , settling to feed within a few feet of where he stood .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 .
13 Father and son had died within a few days of each other …
14 Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing .
15 The gun had landed within a few inches of Blake .
16 ( 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 . )
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