Example sentences of "[vb infin] within [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what Crane Holdings should do within a few months . |
| 2 | The churches were usually brick built , and even when their walls did not crack and warp under the impact of the process , there remains , according to Romanian architects , the threat that their very bricks could crumble within a few years . |
| 3 | Your holiday abroad should follow within a few months while your memory is fresh . |
| 4 | She would drown within a few minutes . |
| 5 | For example , a reaction to a particular food may occur within a few minutes of eating a food , or after a day or two . |
| 6 | The dog should return within a few minutes , but if not , search in the direction where you last saw your pet . |
| 7 | When told by them that the sales of budgerigar seed were disastrous and the market might easily disappear within a few years , Mrs Franklin came back with what you may think was a simple answer — but it was profound in terms of changing British public opinion — she said , " Breed your own consumers . " |
| 8 | They warn that the number of lakes affected may double within a few decades unless air pollution in Europe is halved . |
| 9 | Grazes and torn fins will usually heal within a few days , but if there is any sign of infection by bacteria ( which causes the wound to become inflamed ) or fungus ( resulting in cotton wool growths ) treatment with a general external parasitic remedy is recommended . |
| 10 | The water-soluble vitamins , however , are not usually stored in the body in any great amount , so deficiency can develop within a few weeks or months if the diet is poor . |
| 11 | Conceivably the entire lake could die within a few years . |
| 12 | Almost all of them will die within a few weeks of being shed . |
| 13 | Most fatalities from T. canis infection occur during the pulmonary phase , and pups which have been heavily infected transplacentally may die within a few days of birth . |
| 14 | A customer walking into a Barclays branch can leave within a few minutes having bought or sold such shares as he wants . |
| 15 | Clerk to the justices Robert Whitehouse said the £400 screens should arrive within a few weeks . |
| 16 | He also said that " we are going to show how a revolution can be enacted through democratic principles , how democracy can be practised with one party " and announced that the National Assembly would reassemble within a few months in order to approve an electoral law which would lead to the holding of direct legislative elections in 1993 . |
| 17 | It 's probably best not to feed your fish for the first day or so as they settle in ( though some fish will feed within a few minutes of being stocked ) . |
| 18 | You may live within a few metres of many if not most of the plant and animal species ever recorded in Britain , and perhaps a few that are new to science . |
| 19 | Its tail will shrink within a few hours of departure . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't worry , it 'll decay within a few days . ’ |
| 21 | If his pains do n't subside within a few weeks , he really ought to see the doctor . |
| 22 | In a similar line of argument , Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 14 August 1898 ) viewed the Hooligan panic as an indictment of the hypocrisy of a civilisation that took ‘ so painful an interest about moral handkerchiefs and hymn books for the barbarians of the wild Soudan ’ while turning a blind eye towards ‘ the far wilder barbarians they may find within a few paces from their own street-doors ’ . |