Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] within a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can expect to see a visible improvement within a few months of regular practice . |
| 2 | The bank is looking for someone canny — not to say extremely gifted — who has developed the right skills in a reasonably sized corporate environment within a few years of qualifying . |
| 3 | When attacking , it protrudes its long snout , and as it pushes it against the flesh of its enemy it fires a small , venom-carrying harpoon — a hollow dart formed from a tooth — that can kill a human being within a few hours . |
| 4 | Many Glaswegians were to join the International Brigade within a few years , Scots like James Robertson Justice , pointing rifles upwards at the Heinkel 111 and Junkers 52 of Adolf Hitler 's Luftwaffe . |
| 5 | Only one fertile Genestealer needed to remain alive in hiding to undo all the good work within a few decades . |
| 6 | The money will be deducted from your current account within a few days of your purchase — just like a cheque , but so much easier . |
| 7 | This can be most easily achieved by an observer who is present while the recording is being made and who can make a full transcription within a few hours . |
| 8 | The evening before the diagnosis was made I had a double whisky and developed sneezing and rhinitis , but on this occasion I developed severe bronchospasm within a few minutes . |
| 9 | Food importers said supermarkets were stockpiling tinned supplies and gave warning that there would be shortages of pilchards and corned beef within a few weeks . |
| 10 | The removal of many thousands of large whales , especially the krill-feeding rorquals , from the Southern Ocean within a few decades is thought by some ecologists to have favoured the many other species , including fish , birds and seals , that feed on krill . |
| 11 | This hormone is produced by the developing embryo within a few days of the egg being fertilised . |
| 12 | YOU will probably have seen many films in which cases of dynamite catch fire and detonate to great cinematic effect within a few seconds . |
| 13 | In addition to the permanent taps , the monitors have been able to tap a conversation on any telephone within a few seconds by means of the TKO device . |
| 14 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
| 15 | If it does , it has a very good chance of catching the gazelle for it is able to reach its maximum speed within a few yards , and then it is the fastest animal on four legs . |
| 16 | Both modern and ancient zones show intense reaction within a few centimetres of the soil surface , perhaps the area with least preservation potential , but very little alteration of the original sediment below that depth . |
| 17 | This is done for its own sake but it is found that the primary sufferer will quite commonly seek treatment through his or her appropriate Anonymous Fellowship within a few months of the family member seeking his or her own recovery . |