Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] within a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The remaining cousins signed their copies of the memorandum , either on the day of the funeral or within a few days afterwards .
2 Put a piece of raw meat into a stream and within a few hours it will be covered with small , flat , black worms feeding on it .
3 The tub is kept in a warm place and within a few days is crawling with worms .
4 There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background .
5 ‘ Frankie would buy a wonderful new suit and within a few minutes he 'd look as though he 'd slept in it .
6 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 .
7 No sooner has it done so than another baby joins on behind in the same way and within a few seconds , the entire litter has formed a caravan behind their parent .
8 At first , her face burned and she was often defeated in her purpose but within a few weeks she was indistinguishable from the seasoned bargainers .
9 Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works .
10 That convinced him he was on the right track and within a few months some alert marketing men in the Wilson Sporting Goods Company were equally impressed .
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