Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] within a few [noun] " 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 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |
| 11 | The police arrived within a few minutes . |
| 12 | How the serious issues emerged within a few years of the miracle of Heliodorus is the question . |