Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] within a few [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The incident was under control within a few minutes and no-one was injured . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even these returned to work within a few days . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ You will be going south for training within a few days . |