Example sentences of "within a few [noun pl] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ .
4 Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems .
5 Within a few days each hole is teeming with worms , with a large proportion being on the pebble .
6 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 .
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