Example sentences of "[conj] within a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Then , instead of shaping at the extreme neck edge , or within a few stitches of a fully fashioned neck shaping , work the cable pattern , with two or so stitches between it and the neck edge and work the neck shaping within the cable pattern and the remaining stocking stitch of the shoulder edge . |
2 | The remaining cousins signed their copies of the memorandum , either on the day of the funeral or within a few days afterwards . |
3 | Whatever mood you are in when you arrive at HCI 's Club Romantica … you can be sure that within a few minutes you 'll feel at home in this pretty village of chalet bungalows surrounded by trees and flowers . |
4 | The Ministers and the Court dignitaries were on the platform to make their farewells , which the Emperor had insisted be short and restrained , so that within a few minutes of his arrival he and his son were on board and the train left to cries of ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ |
5 | Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue . |
6 | But , as Action on Smoking and Health predicted that within a few years the majority of companies will have smoking policies , Roger Stubbs , deputy managing director of MORI , warned a confrontation is looming between ‘ green consumers ’ and ‘ smoking civil libertarians ’ who insist aggressively on their right to smoke in public places or at work . |
7 | It should also be credited with the fact that within a few years very little more was heard from politicians about the importance of the much-vaunted ‘ British independent nuclear deterrent ’ against which CND had originally campaigned . |
8 | It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ . |
9 | He believes ‘ Chicago will evolve back into one major large fair ’ , and Mr Blackman agrees that within a few years , ‘ there will be one show of real importance , or there will be two distinctly different shows ’ . |
10 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
11 | At an early age he was apprenticed to the lace trade in Nottingham , but in about 1820 moved to Chard in Somerset , a centre of lace-making , and was so successful that within a few years he had established his own business as a manufacturer of bobbins and bobbin carriages . |
12 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
13 | This grant is subject to considerable change at present owing to alterations in the HEFCE funding arrangements for universities , but it is hoped that within a few years the total income will rise to new levels . |
14 | But the bonding between an infant and his or her family is so strong that within a few days , as in the case of Marie and her partner Peter , you are convinced you know your own baby from any other in the world . |
15 | The captain had told her that they were now off Porto , and that within a few days they would be entering the Tagus . |
16 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |
17 | Preston shook his head , but it was true that within a few weeks of Mary Moxton 's death William 's mum had bought her first shop . |
18 | A government clearly that is split both politically and is totally incompetent the government 's majority is now down to eighteen and all the predictions are that within a few weeks it will be down to seventeen . |
19 | Unable to stop paddling for fear of capsizing , Tony and I can not put on our anoraks and within a few minutes we are soaked by the freezing combination of sea and rain . |
20 | I am hot and sticky from my drive , but the scent of lilac drifts in from the garden with the sound of blackbirds , and within a few minutes I feel much at home . |
21 | ‘ Frankie would buy a wonderful new suit and within a few minutes he 'd look as though he 'd slept in it . |
22 | Led by Lt Fusata Iida they flew in at a height of 50ft and within a few minutes the airfield was a smoking mess . |
23 | I was told how to contact him in Rome and within a few minutes he was on the line . |
24 | Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King . |
25 | The men followed them and within a few moments lord Hulton and I were standing there just as before watching the tiny figures on the skyline , listening to the distant " Haow , haow ! " |
26 | By definition , the altruistic majority must promote the reproductive success of the selfish the reproductive success of the selfish organism , the mutant , will be far greater than the altruist , and within a few generations of selfish individuals . |
27 | Put a piece of raw meat into a stream and within a few hours it will be covered with small , flat , black worms feeding on it . |
28 | The proteins move in the electric current at a speed which depends on their electric charge and molecular weights , and within a few hours they have become distributed along the length of the gel — the procedure is called gel electrophoresis . |
29 | And within a few hours of taking it , that 's when this happened to me . |
30 | And within a few hours of meeting 25-year-old Chris , Heather agreed to spend the rest of her life with him . |