Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] within a few " in BNC.
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1 | I have found Roman , medieval and Georgian losses within a few yards when working suburban grass verges . |
2 | Although the endless state visits to Harare or Mauretania always climaxed with the publication of pompous declarations and assertions that trade was going to increase by generous percentages within a few years , the consequences of these visits were negligible apart from providing a few more exhibits for the trophy rooms in Bucharest . |
3 | Perhaps , by the way , Americans can manage to hunt French deer within a few paragraphs ; others prefer a rather larger area . |
4 | You can expect to see a visible improvement within a few months of regular practice . |
5 | Police in north Oxfordshire believe the same thieves may have been behind two separate raids within a few miles of each other at Steeple Aston ; both raids were part of a spate of break-ins reported to police in the Fox F M area . |
6 | The bank is looking for someone canny — not to say extremely gifted — who has developed the right skills in a reasonably sized corporate environment within a few years of qualifying . |
7 | When attacking , it protrudes its long snout , and as it pushes it against the flesh of its enemy it fires a small , venom-carrying harpoon — a hollow dart formed from a tooth — that can kill a human being within a few hours . |
8 | Many Glaswegians were to join the International Brigade within a few years , Scots like James Robertson Justice , pointing rifles upwards at the Heinkel 111 and Junkers 52 of Adolf Hitler 's Luftwaffe . |
9 | Only one fertile Genestealer needed to remain alive in hiding to undo all the good work within a few decades . |
10 | There 's a cosy hotel bar and although there 's no restaurant in the hotel , there are many good establishments within a few minutes walk . |
11 | Although there 's no restaurant in the hotel , there are plenty of good establishments within a few minutes walk . |
12 | In contrast the Pacific , being so huge , and travelled across by aircraft that tend ( at least for now ) to fly principally between East and West and back again , manages to contain its major routes within a few distinct bands . |
13 | The money will be deducted from your current account within a few days of your purchase — just like a cheque , but so much easier . |
14 | This can be most easily achieved by an observer who is present while the recording is being made and who can make a full transcription within a few hours . |
15 | The evening before the diagnosis was made I had a double whisky and developed sneezing and rhinitis , but on this occasion I developed severe bronchospasm within a few minutes . |
16 | However , whereas years of training and practice were usually needed to master the many and complex skills of recombinant DNA technology , the complete beginner can start to perform polymerase chain reaction experiments and generate meaningful results within a few days at most — hence the explosion of activity . |
17 | They had first closed the door itself , but within seconds it was bristling like a porcupine with glittering bayonets within a few more seconds it had been hacked and splintered to pieces by these bayonets , and now it no longer existed . |
18 | Food importers said supermarkets were stockpiling tinned supplies and gave warning that there would be shortages of pilchards and corned beef within a few weeks . |
19 | The removal of many thousands of large whales , especially the krill-feeding rorquals , from the Southern Ocean within a few decades is thought by some ecologists to have favoured the many other species , including fish , birds and seals , that feed on krill . |
20 | If the pattern holds , Europe will have thriving private-placement markets within a few years . |
21 | This hormone is produced by the developing embryo within a few days of the egg being fertilised . |
22 | YOU will probably have seen many films in which cases of dynamite catch fire and detonate to great cinematic effect within a few seconds . |
23 | On Nov. 27 James Chin , head of WHO 's AIDS forecasting unit , had warned that AIDS would be the main cause of death among young women in western Europe within a few years . |
24 | But they hope Colditz should be ready to accept its new inmates within a few years . |
25 | If it does , it has a very good chance of catching the gazelle for it is able to reach its maximum speed within a few yards , and then it is the fastest animal on four legs . |
26 | Both modern and ancient zones show intense reaction within a few centimetres of the soil surface , perhaps the area with least preservation potential , but very little alteration of the original sediment below that depth . |
27 | This is done for its own sake but it is found that the primary sufferer will quite commonly seek treatment through his or her appropriate Anonymous Fellowship within a few months of the family member seeking his or her own recovery . |
28 | And Judson in Burma burying his whole family within a few short years of getting there . |