Example sentences of "within a few [noun] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Over the three days that Forester had been observing , his schedule had been consistent to within a few minutes either way . |
2 | Within a few years that mill housed a gig mill , four fulling stocks , as well as picking , shearing and press shops . |
3 | Within a few years some observers even began to sense in his reforms the triumph of capitalism over Communism , in that the USSR seemed to be adopting Western methods . |
4 | Within a few years most chemists had adopted the anti-phlogistic theory . |
5 | Within a few days each hole is teeming with worms , with a large proportion being on the pebble . |
6 | Within a few months many assurances were broken ; there were wistful , unfulfilled hopes of James Edward Stuart landing and asserting himself as King James VII ; and in the House of Lords an attempt by Scottish members to repeal the Act was defeated by only a small majority . |
7 | Within a few months these hopes were dashed when a majority of the Manchester committee insisted on recognising an American evangelical , the Rev. Fred Hemming , as an official agent to raise money for the anti-Garrisonian abolitionists in America although he only had the general support of Lewis Tappan and apparently regarded the Garrisonians and their British sympathisers as ‘ infidel abolitionists ’ . |
8 | The government however continued with just one vice-president and within a few months this post was held by Daniel Arap Moi , a non-Kikuyu who , despite being a member of the Legislative Council , had not been prominent in nationalist politics . |