Example sentences of "within a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few hours a scum appears on top of the wort and this rapidly builds up into a great yellowy-brown crust as the yeast turns the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide . |
| 2 | Replacements will be needed within a few weeks . ’ |
| 3 | You need to be able to get into the turn quickly and accurately , and to be flying within a few knots of the pre-stall buffet . |
| 4 | When things are cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero — minus 273.16°C — strange things happen . |
| 5 | Within the last few years , physicists have come within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero using a new technique called laser entrapment . |
| 6 | However , if excavations do not take place the cemetery and its treasures are likely to be destroyed by ploughing within a few years . |
| 7 | THE POUND yesterday posted its steepest one-day fall in more than three years , sinking almost 6 pfennigs within a few hours . |
| 8 | But , as Action on Smoking and Health predicted that within a few years the majority of companies will have smoking policies , Roger Stubbs , deputy managing director of MORI , warned a confrontation is looming between ‘ green consumers ’ and ‘ smoking civil libertarians ’ who insist aggressively on their right to smoke in public places or at work . |
| 9 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |
| 10 | One can all too easily imagine a situation in which , within a few months , Poland will have the worst of all worlds : hyper-inflation and acute shortages and high unemployment , all at the same time . |
| 11 | ‘ His former students will within a few years of graduation be earning a salary twice that of his , ’ the report says . |
| 12 | Yet , within a few years , the whole affair had degenerated into a foodies ' free-for-all . |
| 13 | Within a few months , every plank of his excessively clever platform collapsed . |
| 14 | The government however continued with just one vice-president and within a few months this post was held by Daniel Arap Moi , a non-Kikuyu who , despite being a member of the Legislative Council , had not been prominent in nationalist politics . |
| 15 | While Cameroun 's economic activity returned to normal within a few months , the experience of the three attempted coups , and particularly of the last , undermined the sense of renewal which Paul Biya 's elevation to the presidency had achieved . |
| 16 | Within a few weeks they were regular visitors . |
| 17 | Unable to stop paddling for fear of capsizing , Tony and I can not put on our anoraks and within a few minutes we are soaked by the freezing combination of sea and rain . |
| 18 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |
| 19 | Within a few minutes all the rigs had arrived and splashed in , and the earlier arrivals which had formed two- and three-rig rafts were crabbing across the river and pushing upstream to the bridge centreline . |
| 20 | Within a few weeks of their meeting , England was at war . |
| 21 | A short cork is perfectly adequate for a wine destined to be drunk within a few years . |
| 22 | Within a few days , she was back with news of a suitable place . |
| 23 | THE Director of Public Prosecutions , Mr Allan Green , QC , is expected to decide within a few weeks whether to press corporate manslaughter charges against British Rail , the Crown Prosecution Service said yesterday . |
| 24 | The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here . |
| 25 | Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle , only to die within a few months . |
| 26 | Logically , within a few weeks , he also began declaring that ‘ the Communist movement can no longer be led by any centre ’ . |
| 27 | Within a few months of its publication the government had launched a huge inquiry into pensions which was to produce a series of changes — including the right of employees changing jobs to either take a pension with them , or leave it with the previous employer and have it uprated in line with the retail price index up to a maximum of 5 per cent . |
| 28 | Bottlenose dolphins have a heart rate of 80–90 beats per minute just after ‘ blowing ’ , slowing within a few seconds to 33–45 beats per minute and remaining at that rate until the next blow . |
| 29 | Taiwanese residents who were members of the Hawaiian-based group Earthtrust contacted the Honolulu headquarters , and within a few days , an international team , led by Michael Bailey , arrived at Penghu to negotiate for the release of the remaining animals . |
| 30 | Despite predictions from the FFA that drift-netting would bring about the collapse of albacore stocks within a few years , the Japanese delegation steadfastly refused to make any concessions . |