Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] within a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 2 | His recall of the Parlement of Paris within a few months of his accession , his failure to support his radically reforming Controller-General Turgot ( 1774–76 ) , showed that he was no more able than his grandfather to withstand the opposition of the privileged groups . |
| 3 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 4 | The incident was under control within a few minutes and no-one was injured . |
| 5 | It is a voracious blood-sucker and even 100–200 worms are sufficient to produce death in sheep within a few weeks of infection . |
| 6 | The turtles however , die from infections within a few weeks . |
| 7 | For the Reaganites , economic policy was the legislative priority ; first came budget cuts and then tax reduction and it was essential that these should be in place within a few months , before the end of the honeymoon period . |
| 8 | For example , if sulphate is added to the diet of methanogenic individuals , competitive displacement of methanogenic bacteria occurs and hitherto undetectable sulphate reducing bacteria begin to appear in faeces within a few days . |
| 9 | The amazing improvements in symptoms which can be brought about by medication have created an expectation that most people treated in hospitals will be recovered from their acute episode of disorder and ready for discharge within a few weeks . |
| 10 | When I went to Germany within a few days of the end of the war , it was rather remarkable to go to a Luftwaffe air field with many aircraft , all intact and fully serviceable , but with their tanks — dry not a drop of oil was to be found on those bases . |
| 11 | On one occasion I lay down for a rest , dozed off for 15 minutes , and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form . |
| 12 | Even these returned to work within a few days . |
| 13 | The meeting had been convened at the initiative of Yugoslavia as current chairman of the NAM , and the Yugoslav Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar said at a press conference afterwards that " the foreign ministers could not agree on a joint statement , but opted instead for a plan of action to prevent the war 's escalation … starting with the rapid deployment of a mission of three to four ministers to Baghdad within a few days " . |
| 14 | They have long incubation periods , often measured in years , but once manifested the disease usually progresses swiftly , without remission and uninfluenced by treatment , to death within a few months . |
| 15 | ‘ You will be going south for training within a few days . |
| 16 | The steps would be : ( i ) the drafting by CODESA within a few months of a constitution for a transitional government ; ( ii ) a national referendum on the transitional constitution , probably before the end of the year ; ( iii ) a general election to choose a new multiracial parliament and government , the composition of both to be determined by the transitional constitution [ see p. 38422 for NP 's views on composition of both bodies ] ; ( iv ) the commencement of rule by the transitional government , on the authority of the transitional parliament , which would take over from CODESA as the negotiating forum for the " final " constitution ; and ( v ) adoption of the final constitution , probably with another referendum . |
| 17 | The narrow neck just south of Aldeburgh appears to be surprisingly resistant : it was breached , however , by the 1953 floods , but reformed by bulldozers within a few days . |