Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] within [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |
| 2 | The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum . |
| 3 | Mrs Rumney rang within a few days . |
| 4 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When endosonography suggested the persistence of tumour infiltration in these patients , a local recurrence or distant metastases appeared within a few months . |
| 7 | This case report describes the histological and macroscopic changes seen within a few months in the gastric mucosa of a 28 year old woman patient with upper abdominal symptoms . |
| 8 | Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily . |
| 9 | These results suggest that ( allowing for the differences in trading hours between markets ) , information from foreign stock markets is reflected in the Finnish index futures market within a few hours , but not in the underlying spot market . |
| 10 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 11 | Moreover , movement into the village was predominantly of people born within a few miles of its borders . |
| 12 | Last year , Britain hosted within a few weeks of each other the Moscow City Ballet , Moscow Classical Ballet , Moscow Ballet La Classique and the Russian State Ballet . |
| 13 | It is worth remembering that most accidents happen within a few miles of home . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |
| 16 | The police arrived within a few minutes . |
| 17 | How the serious issues emerged within a few years of the miracle of Heliodorus is the question . |
| 18 | A returning female alights within a few feet of where she last left her baby . |
| 19 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 20 | The Scottish Protestants had their own dramatic gesture to make within a few weeks of Mary Tudor 's death . |
| 21 | A pro knows within a few yards how far he can hit the ball with each club — unlike the club golfer who has a wide variation from day to day , and even from hole to hole . |
| 22 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |
| 23 | 700 the area of circulation of the sceatta or penny , introduced probably in Kent in the 670s , was widening to embrace the Thames valley and Hamwic , near Southampton , was emerging as an important trading settlement to become within a few decades ‘ possibly the largest and most densely populated town in eighth-century England ’ . |
| 24 | Room temperature fusion has been discovered independently and simultaneously by two groups in Utah working within a few miles of each other . |
| 25 | These pills work within a few seconds . ’ |