Example sentences of "[noun] within a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applications had vastly exceeded the quota within a few days , reports said . |
| 2 | Even these returned to work within a few days . |
| 3 | After penetration of the intestinal mucosa L3 travel via the portal system , and reach the liver parenchyma within a few days . |
| 4 | The bank would give him facilities to purchase the business to the extent of seventy five thousand pounds if he agreed to sell his property at and from the proceeds of sale to repay the bridging facility in its entirety and they would provide a sixteen thousand pounds business loan and overdraught facilities to be reduced by five thousand pounds within a few days and if the six thousand pounds rent deposit was not required then the business loan would be reduced to ten thousand pounds . |
| 5 | Observations were taken over three weekdays within a few days of each other to cover the period between 8.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. , so that at each datapoint there were 1980 ( 11 hours x 60 minutes x 3 ) observations of activity for each individual . |
| 6 | When I went to Germany within a few days of the end of the war , it was rather remarkable to go to a Luftwaffe air field with many aircraft , all intact and fully serviceable , but with their tanks — dry not a drop of oil was to be found on those bases . |
| 7 | Any flimsy homesteads of clay and brushwood outside the defensive walls ( or even inside if those walls were breached ) were liable to be set on fire regularly , but their hardened inhabitants could usually manage a replacement within a few days ‘ provided we have five or six poles and boughs to cover them ’ . |
| 8 | Dixons supplied the machine with 2Mb of RAM , but assured us they would supply a 2Mb upgrade within a few days . |
| 9 | AND you receive the magazine within a few days of UK publication . |
| 10 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
| 11 | After aggravation with an LM potency , there should be amelioration within a few days ( 24 hours in my experience ) , if there is a subsequent return of symptoms requiring the same remedy resume treatment not with the same potency but the next higher one . |
| 12 | In particular new potatoes should be bought in small amounts as they lose their freshness within a few days ; they should have a skin which feels damp to the touch and is easily removed by rubbing . |
| 13 | However , whereas years of training and practice were usually needed to master the many and complex skills of recombinant DNA technology , the complete beginner can start to perform polymerase chain reaction experiments and generate meaningful results within a few days at most — hence the explosion of activity . |
| 14 | ‘ You will be going south for training within a few days . |
| 15 | The narrow neck just south of Aldeburgh appears to be surprisingly resistant : it was breached , however , by the 1953 floods , but reformed by bulldozers within a few days . |
| 16 | This case began before my use of LM 's and I prescribed Lycopodium 6C three times daily which dealt with the symptoms within a few days . |
| 17 | The money will be deducted from your current account within a few days of your purchase — just like a cheque , but so much easier . |
| 18 | He was due to leave the province within a few days . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , he was retained and the secretary was instructed to write to the parish officers informing them of the same ; they were told to pay the subscription within a few days otherwise Spies would be discharged from the infirmary . |
| 20 | The meeting had been convened at the initiative of Yugoslavia as current chairman of the NAM , and the Yugoslav Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar said at a press conference afterwards that " the foreign ministers could not agree on a joint statement , but opted instead for a plan of action to prevent the war 's escalation … starting with the rapid deployment of a mission of three to four ministers to Baghdad within a few days " . |
| 21 | For example , if sulphate is added to the diet of methanogenic individuals , competitive displacement of methanogenic bacteria occurs and hitherto undetectable sulphate reducing bacteria begin to appear in faeces within a few days . |
| 22 | Tim and Sophie had been due to fly out to meet Julie and Elizabeth within a few days . |
| 23 | Howard had tried all the proprietary athlete 's foot remedies , but found they were only partially effective ; the infection would always return with a vengeance within a few days of discontinuing with the ointment or powder . |
| 24 | Thrush Green was sorry to hear that he had never been married , had been married unhappily and was now separated from his wife , had been happily married and lost his wife in childbirth , and ( disastrously ) still married , with a wife who would be coming to live with him at the corner house within a few days . |
| 25 | This hormone is produced by the developing embryo within a few days of the egg being fertilised . |
| 26 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |