Example sentences of "within a [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains . |
| 2 | Within a few moments I had been directed to the Gasthof zur Alte Post and installed myself in a tiny room which was to cost about £12 for the night , including breakfast . |
| 3 | Within a few hours they had 50 signatures . |
| 4 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |
| 5 | Within a few hours he cancelled on the grounds that the subject was ‘ too sensitive ’ — some twelve years after the amalgamation of his library had taken place . |
| 6 | Within a few minutes she saw him riding towards her up the hill , his horse 's harness glinting in the sun . |
| 7 | Within a few minutes he had noticed a scruffy individual walk into the Oak public house , Stoke Row . |
| 8 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
| 9 | Within a few years it had evolved into the ASEA , and by 1909 there were seventeen affiliated committees in London and ten in the provinces . |
| 10 | At an early age he was apprenticed to the lace trade in Nottingham , but in about 1820 moved to Chard in Somerset , a centre of lace-making , and was so successful that within a few years he had established his own business as a manufacturer of bobbins and bobbin carriages . |
| 11 | Merceron 's political career began in 1787 , and within a few years he had became a vestryman , a tax commissioner , and a justice of the peace . |
| 12 | Yet within a few years she won the County Bronze and Silver Championships in two successive seasons , almost certainly a unique feat . |
| 13 | Within a few seconds they had all vanished into tiny , black holes . |
| 14 | Within a few days we had become bystanders , watching things happen beyond our control . |
| 15 | Within a few days he had received some opinions on it which he transmitted to Pons immediately . |
| 16 | Within a few days she had resolved to flee the country — her husband would not leave his business — and to join her parents , who had settled in London in 1936 . |
| 17 | Within a few days she had recovered enough to play practice chukkas , going straight into fast polo as though she 'd played it all her life . |
| 18 | Within a few days she seemed very accepting of the situation , almost enjoying not having her husband around the house . |
| 19 | Within a few weeks they had put Pedro to flight and Henry was crowned king . |
| 20 | Within a few weeks he had resigned from the party and become the founder of a new movement , the British National Socialist League . |
| 21 | Within a few weeks he began to feel better , and his depression , anxiety , tiredness , panic attacks , fainting and sweating are now a thing of the past Problems , due to too much caffeine are fairly common , but not everyone has the sort of symptoms that Ken experienced . |
| 22 | And er within a few months we 'd got the thing going till they were blowing out , and we were making it hand over fist you see ? |
| 23 | I 'll write more about testing the call to such work , but within a few months we gave up our travelling ministry and took a team of sixteen adults plus their children out of St Luke 's and began Cranham Community Church . |
| 24 | Within a few months they moved to the east coast of Scotland where they were allocated a large stretch of coastline , from Rosyth to Montrose , to protect from the very real threat of German invasion . |
| 25 | He was forty-one years of age and still a bachelor , but within a few months it became known that he wished to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson , an American divorcee . |
| 26 | Within a few months I took a small office space oh dear I ca n't remember . |
| 27 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
| 28 | Three years later Robert married Mary , the daughter of Stephen Longmoore , a farmer , but within a few months he left for America in order to improve his position . |
| 29 | Within a few months he produced an order from Littlewoods to produce the store 's quarterly catalogue , bringing in £478,000 of business . |
| 30 | Within a few months she expanded the business and took over a computer firm from Hertfordshire employing about 120 people . |