Example sentences of "[pron] within a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board . |
2 | Another place within easy reach is Culloden Moor ; the railway will take you within a few miles . |
3 | In November 1558 , she was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth , who within a few months of coming to the throne had authorized a new religious settlement which once again left the country officially Protestant . |
4 | Because people had seen the recorder being switched off , they ignored the microphones , leaving them within a few inches of their mouths , thus enabling us to record conversation of superb acoustic quality . |
5 | The vessels ' hulls are completely intact , and the team hopes to raise them within a few years . |
6 | … in every way like the man , as a twin brother and companion , haunting him as his shadow , both before and after the original is dead ; and was also often seen of old to enter a Hous , by which the People knew that the Person of that Liknes wes to Visite them within a few days . |
7 | There was a multitude of small tracks that began promisingly and died to nothing within a few yards , tracks that might be the paths of men or of deer , or wolves , or wild boar . |
8 | ‘ Twice you have surprised me within a few minutes , Mr. Preston . |
9 | He wooed her and wed her within a few months . |
10 | That does not render it inedible if you cook it within a few hours — or freeze it immediately . |
11 | Now , you can see that coin down there , if you look carefully , you can see it you ca n't get it , you know where it is , it has n't gone through a hole into the centre of the earth it has n't , sort of , disappeared into outer space , you know exactly where it is , the chances are you could pin point it within a few inches of where i , even if you ca n't see it you know where it is , but you ca n't get at it to you , it 's lost you know it 's geographic location , you know when it went there , you know everything about it , you only thing is you ca n't get at it ! |
12 | As for the English speaking , a child of far more than three has no difficulty learning Italian and is so far from being wedded to the tongue he has begun with that he forgets it within a few months so do not say to me that is an obstacle . |
13 | I 'll would outgrown it within a few months . |
14 | That reminds me : I asked whether he 'd heard anything within a few minutes of seeing young Hamnett , hoping he 'd say a shot , of course , which really would have been too good to be true . |