Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] within a few [noun] " 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 | The plan started to work within a few day he became shy and nervous of humans even at feeding times . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It gets larger , and dormant chick genes become reactivated within a few days . |
| 9 | The calculation behind the memorial was naturally that most of the women would leave to get married within a few years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 14 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The gun had landed within a few inches of Blake . |
| 17 | ( 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 . ) |