Example sentences of "[conj] within [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Beyond the apple trees and within a few feet of the river is a large raised platform , visible in winter before its annual submergence in weeds , part of a vanished building , and there are clear lines of stone walls adjoining it . |
| 32 | The first adult Scout troop formed was the 1st Duke of Grafton 's Own ( Clapham St. Bede 's ) which was formed in 1913 , and within a few years there were also Scouters and Guiders established in London at West Ham , Green Lanes ( St. John of Beverley 's ) , North Clapham and Stoke Newington . |
| 33 | These inspired the Chinese people and within a few years , there had been major efforts to move away from the centralised , planned economic system which was typical of communist regimes . |
| 34 | Under the legislation this was not in fact required ( only the Boards as a whole were required to break even ‘ taking one year with another ’ ) , but Citrine and his senior colleagues believed that it was a desirable principle that each Board should break even , and within a few years of nationalisation this was also tacitly accepted by the Boards . |
| 35 | His success was short-lived and within a few years Ivan had to accept Turkish suzerainty . |
| 36 | Tace , describing the orchid in his novel , had also told where it was to be found , and within a few years every tuber and plant of leuchorchis albida had been stripped from the moor . |
| 37 | Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home . |
| 38 | Merceron 's political career began in 1787 , and within a few years he had became a vestryman , a tax commissioner , and a justice of the peace . |
| 39 | But in the 1880s a successful means of refrigerating meat cargoes was found , and within a few years Australian and Argentine beef , New Zealand lamb , and American pork were flooding into the country . |
| 40 | The government however continued with just one vice-president and within a few months this post was held by Daniel Arap Moi , a non-Kikuyu who , despite being a member of the Legislative Council , had not been prominent in nationalist politics . |
| 41 | Bill and Audrey Clark bought a house for £50,000 , and within a few months discovered that most of the window frames were infested with wet rot and required replacing . |
| 42 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
| 43 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 44 | That convinced him he was on the right track and within a few months some alert marketing men in the Wilson Sporting Goods Company were equally impressed . |
| 45 | Cocks married in 1688 Frances , daughter of Richard Neville of Billingbear , Berkshire , and within a few months of being widowed , in 1724 , took as his second wife Mary , daughter of William Bethell of Swindon . |
| 46 | He repudiated the oath by which he had restored to the Holy See the ecclesiastical rights and privileges enjoyed by the emperors and the kings of Sicily and within a few months of his coronation he began to progress down into Italy . |
| 47 | These two mills were also on the direct route to Bristol and within a few miles of Fromebridge . |
| 48 | The fact that it was larger than most local mills and within a few miles of Cirencester probably saved it . |
| 49 | ‘ You 're safe now — only another step or two ! ’ they heard Chuck call out , and within a few seconds they were both thankfully flinging their arms round the firm , strongly rooted trunks of the saplings on the ridge . |
| 50 | No sooner has it done so than another baby joins on behind in the same way and within a few seconds , the entire litter has formed a caravan behind their parent . |
| 51 | Without thinking I tagged on to the end of the marching men and within a few seconds was past the SPs unnoticed . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . ’ |
| 54 | The tub is kept in a warm place and within a few days is crawling with worms . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | She 's soaking wet and within a few thrusts I 'm ready to come and she 's panting , then grunting then calling out , ‘ Oh , fuck , yes ! ’ and then it 's all over and I collapse over her and then fall off her and almost cut my ear on the cool blade of the kitchen knife lying on the sheet . |
| 60 | Allen cast around and within a few yards further came upon a man-made path , narrow and winding , but in frequent use . |