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 .
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