Example sentences of "[verb] within a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four have undergone doping tests and the results are expected within a few days . |
| 2 | The collection from the nest was made within a few days of the fledglings leaving the nest , and the broken up and trampled remains of pellets and bones from the nest can be mostly attributed to the regurgitated pellets of the fledglings . |
| 3 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 4 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |
| 5 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 6 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 7 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 8 | A political truce was called within a few days of the outbreak of war ; a pact to end contested by-elections was first signed on 6 August , and a joint recruiting drive began before the end of the month . |
| 9 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |
| 10 | A personalised pay-in book will also be posted within a few days of opening the account . |
| 11 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 12 | ‘ Whoever put the clothes there might reasonably have expected that they would be found within a few days ? ’ |
| 13 | This is total rubbish , as if the body is to be buried or cremated within a few days after death , no such risk exists . |
| 14 | Grazes and torn fins will usually heal within a few days , but if there is any sign of infection by bacteria ( which causes the wound to become inflamed ) or fungus ( resulting in cotton wool growths ) treatment with a general external parasitic remedy is recommended . |
| 15 | Mrs Rumney rang within a few days . |
| 16 | Most fatalities from T. canis infection occur during the pulmonary phase , and pups which have been heavily infected transplacentally may die within a few days of birth . |
| 17 | The town , protected only by a dry-stone wall , surrendered within a few days , on 8 January 1746 . |
| 18 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
| 19 | When Miss Louisa had a second more severe stroke at the end of August , and Miss Ellen another heart attack , both old ladies died within a few days of each other . |
| 20 | Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other . |
| 21 | Most items are available from stock , or can be delivered within a few days . |
| 22 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
| 23 | An example of a condition caused in this way is phenylketonuria — one of the so-called ‘ inborn errors of metabolism ’ — an inherited biochemical disorder for which babies are now routinely tested within a few days of birth . |
| 24 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 25 | Many are already paired from previous matings ; all are usually nesting , courting , mating and laying within a few days of arrival . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't worry , it 'll decay within a few days . ’ |
| 27 | The effect was electric : the girl was released within a few days ; the man remained in jail and in fact served a very long sentence . |
| 28 | The therapist realized that some changes in the couples ' situation would have to occur within a few days if another crisis were to be avoided . |
| 29 | It gets larger , and dormant chick genes become reactivated within a few days . |