Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] within [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may live within a few metres of many if not most of the plant and animal species ever recorded in Britain , and perhaps a few that are new to science . |
| 2 | She would drown within a few minutes . |
| 3 | In a similar line of argument , Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 14 August 1898 ) viewed the Hooligan panic as an indictment of the hypocrisy of a civilisation that took ‘ so painful an interest about moral handkerchiefs and hymn books for the barbarians of the wild Soudan ’ while turning a blind eye towards ‘ the far wilder barbarians they may find within a few paces from their own street-doors ’ . |
| 4 | Almost all of them will die within a few weeks of being shed . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't worry , it 'll decay within a few days . ’ |