Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] within [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's soaking wet and within a few thrusts I 'm ready to come and she 's panting , then grunting then calling out , ‘ Oh , fuck , yes ! ’ and then it 's all over and I collapse over her and then fall off her and almost cut my ear on the cool blade of the kitchen knife lying on the sheet . |
| 2 | But the bonding between an infant and his or her family is so strong that within a few days , as in the case of Marie and her partner Peter , you are convinced you know your own baby from any other in the world . |
| 3 | His success was short-lived and within a few years Ivan had to accept Turkish suzerainty . |
| 4 | I had left the technical college in February 1980 and within a few weeks had landed an audio typist 's job with a trendy voluntary housing organization . |
| 5 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
| 6 | Whatever mood you are in when you arrive at HCI 's Club Romantica … you can be sure that within a few minutes you 'll feel at home in this pretty village of chalet bungalows surrounded by trees and flowers . |
| 7 | The majority of these early volunteers were ex-service men , some with experience of World War I and within a few weeks many of us teenagers barely sixteen jointed the unit . |
| 8 | At an early age he was apprenticed to the lace trade in Nottingham , but in about 1820 moved to Chard in Somerset , a centre of lace-making , and was so successful that within a few years he had established his own business as a manufacturer of bobbins and bobbin carriages . |
| 9 | Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home . |
| 10 | Preston shook his head , but it was true that within a few weeks of Mary Moxton 's death William 's mum had bought her first shop . |