Example sentences of "[noun sg] within a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOU will probably have seen many films in which cases of dynamite catch fire and detonate to great cinematic effect within a few seconds . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is the second Worlingworth firm to face closure within a few weeks . |
| 4 | Applications had vastly exceeded the quota within a few days , reports said . |
| 5 | A special intercom linking the theatre with the pathology lab means surgeons can find out the results of a biopsy within a few minutes to establish , for instance , if a tumour they are operating on is malignant . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Modigliani saw the potential of the boy , who ironically became Beatrice 's lover within a few years when he was 18 and she was over 40 . |
| 8 | In addition to the permanent taps , the monitors have been able to tap a conversation on any telephone within a few seconds by means of the TKO device . |
| 9 | He thinks another fiscal crisis like the one he was called in to deal with can be expected to force the issue within a few years . |
| 10 | This procedure will achieve temporary relief only since collateral veins are likely to develop across the anastomosis within a few months , and will ultimately bleed . |
| 11 | An air ambulance was on the scene within a few minutes , but Ranetta , whose mother arrived shortly afterwards , was already dead . |
| 12 | Worldly-wise and diverting in its tendency to offer a recipe for faijoada completa and the protocol for French deer hunting within a few paragraphs , the novel poses the same difficulty that plagues the protagonist : as we Americans put it , we miss the forest for the trees . ’ |
| 13 | Only one fertile Genestealer needed to remain alive in hiding to undo all the good work within a few decades . |
| 14 | Even these returned to work within a few days . |
| 15 | As well as the noise the couple would have to put up with a landfill site within a few yards of their garden . |
| 16 | After penetration of the intestinal mucosa L3 travel via the portal system , and reach the liver parenchyma within a few days . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | During the trip to India — which , British elections permitting , should take place within a few months — Baker will emphasise government support for any satellite deals that India makes with private industry , for example , the state could provide loans to pay for the work . |
| 19 | For the Reaganites , economic policy was the legislative priority ; first came budget cuts and then tax reduction and it was essential that these should be in place within a few months , before the end of the honeymoon period . |
| 20 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 21 | The airport fire service was alongside the wreck within a few minutes but there was little the firemen could do . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But she was still found hanging at her home in the city a month ago , the second suicide at the University within a few months . |
| 25 | He expects to sign a facilities management contract within a few weeks that is ‘ bigger ’ than the $53m seven-year contract it signed with Mory-TNTE in December . |
| 26 | Certainly , the change within a few months from the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes to the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union suggests great confusion of purpose . |
| 27 | And the good news is that you could be almost back to a non-smoker 's risk level within a few years . |
| 28 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 29 | But it was also the beginning of the split between law-abiders and law-breakers which was to cripple the movement within a few years and lead to its decline . |
| 30 | The incident was under control within a few minutes and no-one was injured . |