Example sentences of "[v-ing] within a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember two aunts and an uncle , all very dear to me , dying within a few months . |
| 2 | His move towards contracting led to his being awarded the contract for the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway in 1855 , reaching his home village a year later and passing within a few yards of his first contract , the iron bridge . |
| 3 | All savour the wonderful position and the advantage of living within a few minutes of the A55 Expressway , with fast journey times in both directions . |
| 4 | Since eating sugar will give the yeast a burst of growth and therefore precipitate symptoms such as bloating within a few hours , one would expect sufferers from candidiasis to be averse to sugar . |
| 5 | Bottlenose dolphins have a heart rate of 80–90 beats per minute just after ‘ blowing ’ , slowing within a few seconds to 33–45 beats per minute and remaining at that rate until the next blow . |
| 6 | You need to be able to get into the turn quickly and accurately , and to be flying within a few knots of the pre-stall buffet . |
| 7 | However , if excavations do not take place the cemetery and its treasures are likely to be destroyed by ploughing within a few years . |
| 8 | There were three major ones , standing within a few hundred yards of each other . |
| 9 | HD-DOMS runs on Data General , Sun and IBM Corp workstations , and an HP-UX version will be shipping within a few weeks . |
| 10 | HD-DOMS runs on Data General , Sun and IBM workstations , and an HP/UX version will be shipping within a few weeks . |
| 11 | Many are already paired from previous matings ; all are usually nesting , courting , mating and laying within a few days of arrival . |
| 12 | Room temperature fusion has been discovered independently and simultaneously by two groups in Utah working within a few miles of each other . |