Example sentences of "within a few [noun pl] [pron] was " in BNC.
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1 | Within a few moments I was on a floater , crossing the fairly well-lit spaceport , still with no one in sight anywhere around me . |
2 | Within a few hours she was transferred to the neurosurgical unit at Addenbrookes hospital , Cambridge . |
3 | I was told how to contact him in Rome and within a few minutes he was on the line . |
4 | Within a few minutes it was adopted unanimously . |
5 | Within a few years it was the Guns Mill Paper Company . |
6 | Within a few seconds he was dead . |
7 | Coleridge and Sara began their married life more conventionally , and within a few days he was writing in enraptured terms to Tom Poole from their ‘ comfortable Cot ’ in Clevedon : ‘ the prospect around us is perhaps more various than any in the kingdom — Mine Eye gluttonizes. — The Sea — the distant Islands ! the opposite Coasts ! — I shall assuredly write Rhymes — let the nine Muses prevent it , if they can . ’ |
8 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
9 | Within a few days he was a pitiful sight , white-faced with huge puffy red-rimmed eyes , his thin hair plastered to his head with sweat and the comfortable roundness of his baby tummy melted away . |
10 | I had to wait until the female was bulging-ripe , so within a few days she was brooding . |
11 | At first , her face burned and she was often defeated in her purpose but within a few weeks she was indistinguishable from the seasoned bargainers . |
12 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |
13 | Within a few months he was teaching full-time . |