Example sentences of "within a few [noun pl] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few minutes of this treatment being given , he was able to button up his coat . |
| 2 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |
| 3 | The escalating cost of these tax benefits would be checked within a few years of this policy being implemented . |
| 4 | Within a few years of this edition Hopkins was firmly established in the canon of English poetry . |
| 5 | Within a few weeks of this tragedy , on 29 May 1985 , further disaster struck at the European Cup Final between Italy 's Juventus and England 's Liverpool at Brussels ' Heysel Stadium . |