Example sentences of "within a few [noun] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 Within a few moments you will start to lose your balance .
2 Put a piece of raw meat into a stream and within a few hours it will be covered with small , flat , black worms feeding on it .
3 Whatever mood you are in when you arrive at HCI 's Club Romantica … you can be sure that within a few minutes you 'll feel at home in this pretty village of chalet bungalows surrounded by trees and flowers .
4 ‘ Frankie would buy a wonderful new suit and within a few minutes he 'd look as though he 'd slept in it .
5 Within a few seasons it should be possible to interpret the motion vectors quantitatively and to represent them in more realistic terms than in the cartoon of Figure 2 .
6 Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’
7 Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago .
8 The captain had told her that they were now off Porto , and that within a few days they would be entering the Tagus .
9 Within a few days you will have identified the relevant muscles needed to stop the flow .
10 A government clearly that is split both politically and is totally incompetent the government 's majority is now down to eighteen and all the predictions are that within a few weeks it will be down to seventeen .
11 From the moment that you arrive at college you will be involved in what is popularly known as " taking notes " and as likely as not within a few weeks you will be the possessor of tattered notebooks filled with illegible hieroglyphics or , worse still , of masses of mixed-up bits of paper .
12 Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue .
13 Within days of helping me you would be transferred back to the hospital wing of Vladimir , within a few months you would be home … think on it .
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