Example sentences of "within a [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Within a few hours they had 50 signatures . |
3 | The proteins move in the electric current at a speed which depends on their electric charge and molecular weights , and within a few hours they have become distributed along the length of the gel — the procedure is called gel electrophoresis . |
4 | Within a few minutes he had noticed a scruffy individual walk into the Oak public house , Stoke Row . |
5 | Within a few minutes it has to return to wet its skin and take a fresh mouthful of water . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Cavan 's biggest problem is tradition according to Reilly , so much so that if a manager does n't deliver the goods within a few years he 's gone and a new one comes along . |
11 | Within a few seconds they had all vanished into tiny , black holes . |
12 | Within a few days we had become bystanders , watching things happen beyond our control . |
13 | Within a few days he had received some opinions on it which he transmitted to Pons immediately . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Within a few weeks they had put Pedro to flight and Henry was crowned king . |
17 | Within a few weeks he had resigned from the party and become the founder of a new movement , the British National Socialist League . |
18 | 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 ? |