Example sentences of "within a matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When you have the Russian empire collapsing within a matter of weeks it seems ridiculous to say we can not move faster . ’ |
| 2 | Such a volume , Shaw calculated , would have given a rise in global sea level of 230mm within a matter of weeks . |
| 3 | Earlier this week the management was confidently expecting firm production orders within a matter of days . |
| 4 | From Washington Road , one leaves a typical middle-American urban scene to be transported into an old South environment within a matter of seconds . |
| 5 | This ability to summon up images , both photographic and diagrammatic , and explanatory texts within a matter of seconds is quite hypnotic , and very much in line with the television mind-set of the computer generation . |
| 6 | Any mother who has to deal with the separation of one child and the divorce of another within a matter of weeks would be upset . |
| 7 | During the year 1976 the highest level of enthusiasm for family planning endured , more than 8 million sterilisations were reported , more than three times the number in the preceding year … these meant a nearly 50% increase in the proportion of Indian couples estimated to be protected by modern contraception achieved within a matter of months . |
| 8 | The air was full of the smell of burning documents , and in some quarters there was talk that the Germans would be on the Nile within a matter of days . |
| 9 | He was on the point of taking the key fortress of Valencia in the same year , when he fell sick and died within a matter of weeks . |
| 10 | If you will spend just ten or fifteen minutes a day practising a simple relaxation technique , you will begin to feel the benefit within a matter of days . |
| 11 | Generally , the harvesting of essential oil plants should be completed within a matter of days ; any delay , and the essential oils will be lost . |
| 12 | Remorse over this made him fall ill , and he died within a matter of months to be succeeded in his office by his son Henri ( 1767–1840 ) . |
| 13 | Within a matter of days some were caught more than half a mile away . |
| 14 | Within a matter of moments , the computer will indicate which of the three shade-groups you suit , from Warm to Cool to Neutral , and you can choose your products from the corresponding colour sections on display . |
| 15 | Within a matter of months , such talk — formerly condemned by middle-of-the-road Israelis as defeatist and unpatriotic — has spread from the fringes of the left to the cabinet table . |
| 16 | Some common elements , like drag and drop and point and click , have already found their way into most GUIs , and those involved in Galileo say it would be possible to get things up and running within a matter of weeks once agreement has been reached . |
| 17 | After three years of more or less benevolent autocracy , Valery Gergiev is happy with the facts about his Kirov company : the fact that for the 1989–90 season , very much against the malingering influence of Leningrad 's cultural bureaucrats and an army of silently disapproving critics , he headed straight for uncut Mussorgsky ( original Boris , Shostakovich- orchestrated Khovanshchina , Sorochinsky Fair , The Marriage , Salammbô ) ; and the fact that the following year , with the situation in newly-renamed St Petersburg worsening day by day , he set about four Prokofiev operas within a matter of months . |
| 18 | This is a dramatic disorder of the small intestine which produces a massive outflow of water electrolytes that can be fatal within a matter of hours after the onset of disease ! |
| 19 | Dehydration , er can produce death within a matter of fe , er a few hours and and an understanding of the mechanism by which this dehydration leads us into one of the most effective forms of heat treatment er , ever produced . |
| 20 | Clarification is expected within a matter of weeks . |
| 21 | It is appropriate in this case that there should be an interim residence order , and there should be directions attached to that order that A. be returned forthwith to the care of his father and that G. , R. and M. remain in the care of their father and that there be an inter partes hearing with service of the application as quickly as the Portsmouth County Court can make it possible to be heard , which means within a matter of days not a matter of weeks , because it would be quite wrong for this matter to die down once the child is returned . |
| 22 | As a matter of practice , moneys paid into the account would be transferred from it to the account in Scotland if not immediately , then certainly within a matter of days , for amalgamation with the general fund . |
| 23 | Dong , because of his unusual height , had a clear view of the new arrivals above the heads of the crowd — and within a matter of seconds his startled eyes fell on two familiar faces that he had not seen for well over a year . |
| 24 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
| 25 | The ragged edges of the hole glinted sharply , and Jesus knew that any failed attempt to enter the Lift would be likely to result in his being sliced to ribbons within a matter of seconds . |
| 26 | If we shoot a rocket to the moon and bring it back ten days later we can calculate before the start , within a matter of seconds and a few hundred yards , just how long it will take and where it will land , provided always that in the course of the proceedings there is no human error . |
| 27 | Yet at Burford , within a matter of days , he converted all the rebel officers to his cause . |
| 28 | The use of a software package such as ‘ Office Power ’ with the ability to generate on-line a standard response to correspondence would dramatically improve the response time in dealing with most enquiries from individual and ensure that a response is made within a matter of days . |
| 29 | ‘ Try a window , ’ shouted someone , and within a matter of minutes two men had stout stakes and were breaking in the ground-floor windows . |
| 30 | In addition , because of poll tax capping , local authorities have to deliver their budgets within a matter of weeks of the Government 's decision on standard spending assessments . |