Example sentences of "[verb] within a few [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | 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 . |
32 | Your holiday abroad should follow within a few months while your memory is fresh . |
33 | She would drown within a few minutes . |
34 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
35 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
36 | 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 . |
37 | Since eating sugar will give the yeast a burst of growth and therefore precipitate symptoms such as bloating within a few hours , one would expect sufferers from candidiasis to be averse to sugar . |
38 | For example , a reaction to a particular food may occur within a few minutes of eating a food , or after a day or two . |
39 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
40 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
41 | 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 … |
42 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
43 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |
44 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
45 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
46 | Replacements will be needed within a few weeks . ’ |
47 | The police arrived within a few minutes . |
48 | It is worth remembering that most accidents happen within a few miles of home . |
49 | as if that was n't enough , Patrick Eggle himself telephoned within a few minutes to confer on the requested changes . |
50 | Bottlenose dolphins have a heart rate of 80–90 beats per minute just after ‘ blowing ’ , slowing within a few seconds to 33–45 beats per minute and remaining at that rate until the next blow . |
51 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
52 | 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 . |
53 | The dog should return within a few minutes , but if not , search in the direction where you last saw your pet . |
54 | You need to be able to get into the turn quickly and accurately , and to be flying within a few knots of the pre-stall buffet . |
55 | Easily Accessible : There is a large number of footpaths and bridleways in the area , and two long-distance paths , the Oxford Way and the Cotswold Way , pass within a few miles of the hotel . |
56 | The gun had landed within a few inches of Blake . |
57 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |
58 | The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum . |
59 | Moreover , movement into the village was predominantly of people born within a few miles of its borders . |
60 | During the dispute in 1984 , striking miners travelling in convoy on the motorway in Nottinghamshire were stopped within a few miles of four collieries . |