Example sentences of "have [verb] within [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 2 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 3 | The therapist realized that some changes in the couples ' situation would have to occur within a few days if another crisis were to be avoided . |
| 4 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 5 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 6 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 7 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 8 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |
| 9 | The gun had landed within a few inches of Blake . |
| 10 | ( 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 . ) |