Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] within a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The first organisms , which appear within a few hours of the pool forming , are bacteria , as well as tiny single celled plants and animals called algae and protozoa respectively . |
2 | If you 're strongly allergic to any foods , you 'll know what they are , but if you get the occasional bout of nettle rash for no obvious reason or red , itchy patches which fade within a few hours , suspect a food allergy and think back to what you 've eaten during that day . |
3 | If you get the occasional bout of nettle rash for no obvious reason , or even red itchy patches , which fade within a few hours , suspect a food allergy , you have eaten in the past day . |
4 | as if that was n't enough , Patrick Eggle himself telephoned within a few minutes to confer on the requested changes . |
5 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
6 | Mr Barker said he had n't insisted that the customer should produce a banker 's card because she lived within a few doors of the shop . |
7 | It was n't until she got within a few yards of him that he realized it was Maisie . |
8 | She passed within a few feet of an arrow slit from which a light showed , but she was too far away to see into the room where the verderers were . |
9 | As she came within a few yards of it , however , a shudder passed down its spine , and it rolled over , showing its face to the sleet . |
10 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
11 | We hope within a few weeks to move the pair of south bound stops on Clerk Street a little to the north . |
12 | A long-eared owl sat on a low bough overlooking the ride and watched them unblinkingly through his great eyes as they passed within a few paces . |
13 | ‘ Tata 's two assistants know everything there is to know about the trade , and I suspect you 'll know even more than they do within a few months . |
14 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
15 | Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade . |
16 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
17 | He persuaded her to bring her husband home , where he died within a few weeks . |
18 | He knows what he 's galloping , he knows within a few pounds what he wants . |