Example sentences of "[verb] within a few days [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The collection from the nest was made within a few days of the fledglings leaving the nest , and the broken up and trampled remains of pellets and bones from the nest can be mostly attributed to the regurgitated pellets of the fledglings . |
2 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
3 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
4 | A political truce was called within a few days of the outbreak of war ; a pact to end contested by-elections was first signed on 6 August , and a joint recruiting drive began before the end of the month . |
5 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |
6 | A personalised pay-in book will also be posted within a few days of opening the account . |
7 | This is total rubbish , as if the body is to be buried or cremated within a few days after death , no such risk exists . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | When Miss Louisa had a second more severe stroke at the end of August , and Miss Ellen another heart attack , both old ladies died within a few days of each other . |
10 | Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other . |
11 | An example of a condition caused in this way is phenylketonuria — one of the so-called ‘ inborn errors of metabolism ’ — an inherited biochemical disorder for which babies are now routinely tested within a few days of birth . |
12 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
13 | Many are already paired from previous matings ; all are usually nesting , courting , mating and laying within a few days of arrival . |