Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] within [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle , only to die within a few months . |
| 2 | When told by them that the sales of budgerigar seed were disastrous and the market might easily disappear within a few years , Mrs Franklin came back with what you may think was a simple answer — but it was profound in terms of changing British public opinion — she said , " Breed your own consumers . " |
| 3 | The application may be submitted at any time ( as long as the candidate is still registered with the Institute ) and the examination is normally arranged within a few weeks . |
| 4 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The process of counting is a proficient one and a sufficient number of results are usually announced within a few hours of the close of the polls to know which party has won the election . |
| 7 | Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd will close parts of three ageing plants in the Tokyo area due to restructuring : plants in eastern Tokyo , Hachioji and Takasaki , both in northwestern Tokyo , will be partly closed within a few years , and construction of a new plant in Shimizu , west of Tokyo , due to open in 1995 , has been postponed , too . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the absence of heterogeneous nucleation or granule coalescence , and ensemble of 0.25-µm granules should have a crystallization half-life of more than 1,000 yr at 30 °C , whereas bulk samples of the polymer quenched to 30 °C from the melt typically crystallize within a few minutes . |
| 10 | If his pains do n't subside within a few weeks , he really ought to see the doctor . |
| 11 | Telomere function seems to be fully defined within a few hundred base pairs in ciliates or yeasts and thousands base pairs in vertebrates . |
| 12 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |