Example sentences of "[conj] within [art] [det] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining cousins signed their copies of the memorandum , either on the day of the funeral or within a few days afterwards . |
| 2 | But the bonding between an infant and his or her family is so strong that within a few days , as in the case of Marie and her partner Peter , you are convinced you know your own baby from any other in the world . |
| 3 | The captain had told her that they were now off Porto , and that within a few days they would be entering the Tagus . |
| 4 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |
| 5 | Taiwanese residents who were members of the Hawaiian-based group Earthtrust contacted the Honolulu headquarters , and within a few days , an international team , led by Michael Bailey , arrived at Penghu to negotiate for the release of the remaining animals . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The tub is kept in a warm place and within a few days is crawling with worms . |
| 8 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
| 9 | As soon as this is big enough to cling to , the speed of construction accelerates and within a few days the wall has become a semicircular cup of creamy white interlacing strings that is just big enough to hold the customary clutch of two eggs . |
| 10 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 11 | He told us that , at the time was unemployed , and within a few days he even gave the date and place where she signed on for unemployment benefit . |
| 12 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
| 13 | Sparrow Force landed at the island 's north-west port of Koebang to protect its airfield , but within a few days the Independent Company , with some Dutch troops , was sent east along the coast to occupy Dili in the Portuguese half of the island ( see map p. 77 ) where they landed on 17 December 1941 . |
| 14 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 15 | But they very soon did , for within a few days , on October 19 , Keith made a speech in Edgbaston which demonstrated almost unbelievable ineptitude for someone in the running for the Leadership . |