Example sentences of "[conj] within [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 61 | I had left the technical college in February 1980 and within a few weeks had landed an audio typist 's job with a trendy voluntary housing organization . |
| 62 | A treaty was signed outside Haddington , and within a few weeks Mary , Queen of Scots , was on her way from Dumbarton to Paris . |
| 63 | The majority of these early volunteers were ex-service men , some with experience of World War I and within a few weeks many of us teenagers barely sixteen jointed the unit . |
| 64 | Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works . |
| 65 | The instructions therein were religiously followed and within a few weeks a recognisable fuselage could be sat in for some ‘ hangar flying ’ . |
| 66 | Reinhardt at once invited him to join his Viennese theatre company , and within a few seasons Henreid had become one of its leading players . |
| 67 | But within a few moments we were sipping extra-dry martinis from paper cups , then eating cold chicken and tinned ham , with beer chilled by the sea . |
| 68 | But within a few hours the mood changed and what Docherty now describes as ‘ unforeseen forces ’ began to operate . |
| 69 | But within a few hours Mal was suffering exhaustion and Bill had injured himself falling on diamond-hard green ice on the Lhotse Face . |
| 70 | At first , her face burned and she was often defeated in her purpose but within a few weeks she was indistinguishable from the seasoned bargainers . |
| 71 | It was horrid leaving you two girls in Simla , but within a few weeks — at the end of that term — we were able to have you down with us in Poona , and you went to the Wantage Sisters ' school there , and Tim went too . |
| 72 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 73 | He acquiesced in the attempt of Lady Jane Grey [ q.v. ] to seize the throne from Mary , and came under suspicion at the time of the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt [ q.v. ] , but within a few weeks was back at his duties . |
| 74 | He was forty-one years of age and still a bachelor , but within a few months it became known that he wished to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson , an American divorcee . |
| 75 | I 'll write more about testing the call to such work , but within a few months we gave up our travelling ministry and took a team of sixteen adults plus their children out of St Luke 's and began Cranham Community Church . |
| 76 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |
| 77 | Three years later Robert married Mary , the daughter of Stephen Longmoore , a farmer , but within a few months he left for America in order to improve his position . |
| 78 | But within a few years , before the majority of LEAs could submit their schemes for departmental approval , a combination of factors forced the closure of the half-dozen or so schools which had opened . |
| 79 | But within a few years the Americans were using new machines , a fraction of the size , that an unskilled woman could operate for a fraction of the pay , and upon which she could spin as many stockings an hour as the Black Beauty — and without seams . |
| 80 | But within a few years of the end of the war , responsibility for trunk roads , gas , electricity , national assistance and hospital services had been transferred from local to central government control . |
| 81 | But within a few years Browne 's fortunes were restored : he acquired monopolies of the manufacture and sales of both iron and bronze ordnance , as well as iron pots , kettles , chimney backs , and iron weights ‘ in the French manner ’ . |
| 82 | He moved to Glasgow and established himself as a provision merchant , but within a few years decided that there were better prospects in the iron trade . |
| 83 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
| 84 | Sparrow Force landed at the island 's north-west port of Koebang to protect its airfield , but within a few days the Independent Company , with some Dutch troops , was sent east along the coast to occupy Dili in the Portuguese half of the island ( see map p. 77 ) where they landed on 17 December 1941 . |
| 85 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 86 | But they very soon did , for within a few days , on October 19 , Keith made a speech in Edgbaston which demonstrated almost unbelievable ineptitude for someone in the running for the Leadership . |