Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] within a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no evening meal , but there are restaurants and pubs within a few minutes walk including the Royal Hotel , an old coaching house , with an elegant dining room equipped with pianist , and also the Snooty Fox , a charming pub with attractive beamed ceilings . |
| 2 | Tim and Sophie had been due to fly out to meet Julie and Elizabeth within a few days . |
| 3 | The missiles would blast out of their launchers , navigate automatically across Europe , and land within a few metres of targets such as airfields , ports , power stations , dams and locks . |
| 4 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |
| 5 | Garden cress , curly endive , salad rocket and salad rape are other salads which can be harvested as seedlings within a few weeks , before they interfere with the maturing brassicas . |