Example sentences of "within a few [noun] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few moments of Dr McNab 's saline injections Dr Dunstaple had begun to revive . |
| 2 | The gun had landed within a few inches of Blake . |
| 3 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |
| 4 | Within a few years of Karak Eight Peaks ' fall the Night Goblins had settled permanently in the ruins and split into many tribes based around the adjoining mountains and the tunnels that ran beneath them . |
| 5 | It broke up within a few years of Anselm 's death under the impact of forces which were too strong for it . |
| 6 | Within a few days of Elizabeth 's death the reivers had taken what they imagined would be the opportunity for easy plunder , and swarmed over the Border in what their victims and the Wardens referred to as ‘ Ill Week ’ . |
| 7 | AND you receive the magazine within a few days of UK publication . |
| 8 | Within a few days of Prince Albert 's death , young Henry Joseph Titford , aged nine , fell ill with tubercular bronchitis . |
| 9 | Their room at school , within a few weeks of Katherine arrival , had by a few deft touches and additions acquired a new look . |
| 10 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 11 | Within a few weeks of Glass 's abduction , a group calling itself the Organization of Good against Evil released video pictures of him allegedly confessing to being a spy . |
| 12 | The Scottish Protestants had their own dramatic gesture to make within a few weeks of Mary Tudor 's death . |
| 13 | Preston shook his head , but it was true that within a few weeks of Mary Moxton 's death William 's mum had bought her first shop . |
| 14 | Yet within a few months of Richard 's returning to school he had moved in with Philip , leaving his own family to do so . |
| 15 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 16 | These two mills were also on the direct route to Bristol and within a few miles of Fromebridge . |
| 17 | The fact that it was larger than most local mills and within a few miles of Cirencester probably saved it . |