Example sentences of "within a few [noun pl] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cat , delighted that its ordeal was over , burrowed under the covers like a furry hot-water bottle , and although Mildred had only meant to sit and get warm , within a few minutes her eyelids began to droop , and before long she was fast asleep — so fast asleep that she did not hear the door opening very quietly . |
| 2 | Within a few minutes my body was one mass of bruises from head to toe . |
| 3 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 4 | Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home . |
| 5 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 6 | Within a few months his position came under threat from a new direction . |