Example sentences of "[verb] within a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | If you 're strongly allergic to any foods , you 'll know what they are , but if you get the occasional bout of nettle rash for no obvious reason or red , itchy patches which fade within a few hours , suspect a food allergy and think back to what you 've eaten during that day . |
2 | If you get the occasional bout of nettle rash for no obvious reason , or even red itchy patches , which fade within a few hours , suspect a food allergy , you have eaten in the past day . |
3 | The four have undergone doping tests and the results are expected within a few days . |
4 | A Planning Application has been submitted to South Shropshire District Council and their decision is expected within a few weeks . |
5 | And the results are expected within a few weeks . |
6 | Most of the detailed factual material learned in the sixth form is forgotten or superseded within a few years . |
7 | The first organisms , which appear within a few hours of the pool forming , are bacteria , as well as tiny single celled plants and animals called algae and protozoa respectively . |
8 | Whoever sowed the seed , the conference was due to meet within a few hours . |
9 | I remember two aunts and an uncle , all very dear to me , dying within a few months . |
10 | His move towards contracting led to his being awarded the contract for the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway in 1855 , reaching his home village a year later and passing within a few yards of his first contract , the iron bridge . |
11 | Positioned within a few inches of the speaker 's lips , they produce a strong speech signal which stands out clearly against noisy backgrounds . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Originally ascribed to the 1660s it now seems highly likely that they date from the 1630s and were made within a few years of each other . |
14 | This is what Crane Holdings should do within a few months . |
15 | All savour the wonderful position and the advantage of living within a few minutes of the A55 Expressway , with fast journey times in both directions . |
16 | There was a movement in the undergrowth and a rabbit bobbed out into the clearing , settling to feed within a few feet of where he stood . |
17 | This case report describes the histological and macroscopic changes seen within a few months in the gastric mucosa of a 28 year old woman patient with upper abdominal symptoms . |
18 | The churches were usually brick built , and even when their walls did not crack and warp under the impact of the process , there remains , according to Romanian architects , the threat that their very bricks could crumble within a few years . |
19 | Last year , Britain hosted within a few weeks of each other the Moscow City Ballet , Moscow Classical Ballet , Moscow Ballet La Classique and the Russian State Ballet . |
20 | Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade . |
21 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
22 | As she came within a few yards of it , however , a shudder passed down its spine , and it rolled over , showing its face to the sleet . |
23 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
24 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |
25 | We hope within a few weeks to move the pair of south bound stops on Clerk Street a little to the north . |
26 | All anencephalus children are either miscarried , die stillborn , or die within a few weeks of life . |
27 | Research has shown that some old people can not survive the emotional shock of moving to the Home and die within a few weeks . |
28 | The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other . |
29 | Mortar is applied to such areas as will be tessellated within a few hours , and certainly within the day ( hence giornata , for mortar patches which represent a completed period of work ) . |
30 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |