Example sentences of "[adv] within a 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 .
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