Example sentences of "within a very [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a very few years it succeeded in drastically altering the climate in its own homelands — much to the pain of surviving Liberals , such as Harnack , who saw in the entire regrettable enterprise the swamping of properly respectable theological and historical study by a wave of sheer barbarism , of uncouth and indeed vulgar ‘ enthusiasm ’ . |
| 2 | So dead bodies are hygienically whisked away by undertakers within a very short ti me of the person dying , funerals are conducted in twenty minutes at a busy crematorium with a bizarre queue of other funerals waiting in an approach way , and grieving people are expected to be back at their employment in as short a time as possible . |
| 3 | ‘ You shall have both , ’ he promised , and within a very short time they were back in the blissfully cool hotel . |
| 4 | What , what , what he 's saying is that a revolution is taking place here and it is , within a very short time it 's gon na spread on into other provinces . |
| 5 | Within a very short time she was back again in full and active negotiation , determined to resist to the maximum extent possible any encroachment on the National Health Service for private interests . |