Example sentences of "[adv] within [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | To bring out the contrast with UK policy , we can consider a specific case , that of the MMC inquiry into the White Salt Market. ; Two firms supplied virtually the entire UK salt market and , over the 13 year period taken by the MMC , their prices had been identical and had changed identically within a few weeks of each other . |
2 | A few years earlier Aung San might possibly have taken to the jungle , bandit or resistance fighter according to one 's viewpoint , known only within a few miles of his own home . |
3 | So within a few days of his grudging acceptance by his parliamentary colleagues , Law 's leadership was ratified by the throng of party notables at Leeds ; here he received a reception more typical of what was to come in the future . |
4 | I had to wait until the female was bulging-ripe , so within a few days she was brooding . |
5 | The process can be unpleasant and dangerous if unsupervised , but with medical , nursing and family help most people can ‘ detox ’ surprisingly easily within a few days at home or , if necessary , in hospital , without untoward symptoms . |
6 | I do n't know when the first visit was , but it must have been very recent , possibly within a few days of your , er , release . ’ |
7 | I remember once a large white-tailed mongoose scuttled past within a few feet of us . |
8 | The DCs became ‘ approved ’ , and would be , probably within a few months , candidates for being hard copied . |
9 | ONly in one report was it suggested that ‘ fundic gland metaplasia ’ was a transient lesion , which tended to disappear spontaneously within a few months . |
10 | Microtus makes her nest underground in a burrow , so she can safely bring her young into the world when they are still at an early stage of their development , and then within a few hours , start on the business of producing the next litter . |
11 | Female American jacanas may mate with up to four males at a time , sometimes within a few minutes , and then lay eggs in each male 's nest . |
12 | Unless the heart starts beating again within a few minutes the person will die , and in fifty per cent of all fatal heart attacks the victim dies within thirty minutes . |
13 | Yet within a few months of Richard 's returning to school he had moved in with Philip , leaving his own family to do so . |
14 | Yet within a few months of starting the technique here two men were badly injured in a roof fall . |
15 | Yet within a few years she won the County Bronze and Silver Championships in two successive seasons , almost certainly a unique feat . |
16 | " Biopolymers " are extremely versatile , and , once submerged in soil , will degrade completely within a few months . |
17 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
18 | At the weekends he can be anywhere within a few hours drive doing the job of a ‘ Sapper ’ the army 's word for a Military Engineer . |