Example sentences of "within [art] few years [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Within a few years that mill housed a gig mill , four fulling stocks , as well as picking , shearing and press shops .
2 Within a few years firm and formal contacts with the Board of Education had been established .
3 Within a few years other reformers , including Wilberforce and Clarkson , recognised that their belief in virtually automatic improvement in the population and condition of slaves was naïve .
4 Within a few years four species of Plasmodium had been recognized , responsible for clinically distinct variants of malaria .
5 But in the 1880s a successful means of refrigerating meat cargoes was found , and within a few years Australian and Argentine beef , New Zealand lamb , and American pork were flooding into the country .
6 Within a few years some observers even began to sense in his reforms the triumph of capitalism over Communism , in that the USSR seemed to be adopting Western methods .
7 It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ .
8 Within a few years most chemists had adopted the anti-phlogistic theory .
9 Within a few years most of its nominal 100 ships of the line were unfit for sea , although by 1770 a new conflict with Spain over the Falkland Islands seemed likely .
10 Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems .
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