Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] within a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , the change within a few months from the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes to the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union suggests great confusion of purpose . |
| 2 | But she was still found hanging at her home in the city a month ago , the second suicide at the University within a few months . |
| 3 | Applications had vastly exceeded the quota within a few days , reports said . |
| 4 | He thinks another fiscal crisis like the one he was called in to deal with can be expected to force the issue within a few years . |
| 5 | This procedure will achieve temporary relief only since collateral veins are likely to develop across the anastomosis within a few months , and will ultimately bleed . |
| 6 | An air ambulance was on the scene within a few minutes , but Ranetta , whose mother arrived shortly afterwards , was already dead . |
| 7 | The airport fire service was alongside the wreck within a few minutes but there was little the firemen could do . |
| 8 | AND you receive the magazine within a few days of UK publication . |
| 9 | But it was also the beginning of the split between law-abiders and law-breakers which was to cripple the movement within a few years and lead to its decline . |
| 10 | He would usually appear in answer to the signal within a few minutes , for each sereno has a certain section to patrol . |
| 11 | The Chief Constable must have called in the Yard within a few minutes of getting the news . |
| 12 | He was due to leave the province within a few days . |
| 13 | The telegraph now allowed instantaneous communication with the farthest reaches o the empire , while the steamship brought everywhere in the world within a few weeks ' sail of home . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , he was retained and the secretary was instructed to write to the parish officers informing them of the same ; they were told to pay the subscription within a few days otherwise Spies would be discharged from the infirmary . |
| 15 | His work was paralleled by that of William Greenwell [ q.v. ] , but whereas Greenwell extended his researches over all the northern English counties and Gloucestershire , Mortimer confined his activities to the region within a few miles of his base at Driffield . |
| 16 | ( a ) Time of exercise It is usual to provide that the tenant must exercise the option within a few months before the expiry of the lease . |
| 17 | A special intercom linking the theatre with the pathology lab means surgeons can find out the results of a biopsy within a few minutes to establish , for instance , if a tumour they are operating on is malignant . |
| 18 | Any flimsy homesteads of clay and brushwood outside the defensive walls ( or even inside if those walls were breached ) were liable to be set on fire regularly , but their hardened inhabitants could usually manage a replacement within a few days ‘ provided we have five or six poles and boughs to cover them ’ . |
| 19 | However , if there is no improvement within a few weeks an appropriate referral should be made . |
| 20 | The Syrian Foreign Minister emerged to predict a release within a few hours , underlining that such a delicate operation is being handled jointly both by Syria and Iran . |
| 21 | On testing foods , she found that wheat brought her stiff joints back , while milk and cheese produced a migraine within a few hours . |
| 22 | Howard had tried all the proprietary athlete 's foot remedies , but found they were only partially effective ; the infection would always return with a vengeance within a few days of discontinuing with the ointment or powder . |