Example sentences of "within a few [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan started to work within a few day he became shy and nervous of humans even at feeding times . |
| 2 | Within a few hours he cancelled on the grounds that the subject was ‘ too sensitive ’ — some twelve years after the amalgamation of his library had taken place . |
| 3 | Within a few minutes he had noticed a scruffy individual walk into the Oak public house , Stoke Row . |
| 4 | ‘ Frankie would buy a wonderful new suit and within a few minutes he 'd look as though he 'd slept in it . |
| 5 | I was told how to contact him in Rome and within a few minutes he was on the line . |
| 6 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 7 | At an early age he was apprenticed to the lace trade in Nottingham , but in about 1820 moved to Chard in Somerset , a centre of lace-making , and was so successful that within a few years he had established his own business as a manufacturer of bobbins and bobbin carriages . |
| 8 | Merceron 's political career began in 1787 , and within a few years he had became a vestryman , a tax commissioner , and a justice of the peace . |
| 9 | Cavan 's biggest problem is tradition according to Reilly , so much so that if a manager does n't deliver the goods within a few years he 's gone and a new one comes along . |
| 10 | Within a few seconds he was dead . |
| 11 | Coleridge and Sara began their married life more conventionally , and within a few days he was writing in enraptured terms to Tom Poole from their ‘ comfortable Cot ’ in Clevedon : ‘ the prospect around us is perhaps more various than any in the kingdom — Mine Eye gluttonizes. — The Sea — the distant Islands ! the opposite Coasts ! — I shall assuredly write Rhymes — let the nine Muses prevent it , if they can . ’ |
| 12 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
| 13 | Within a few days he had received some opinions on it which he transmitted to Pons immediately . |
| 14 | He told us that , at the time was unemployed , and within a few days he even gave the date and place where she signed on for unemployment benefit . |
| 15 | Within a few days he was a pitiful sight , white-faced with huge puffy red-rimmed eyes , his thin hair plastered to his head with sweat and the comfortable roundness of his baby tummy melted away . |
| 16 | Within a few weeks he began to feel better , and his depression , anxiety , tiredness , panic attacks , fainting and sweating are now a thing of the past Problems , due to too much caffeine are fairly common , but not everyone has the sort of symptoms that Ken experienced . |
| 17 | Within a few weeks he had resigned from the party and become the founder of a new movement , the British National Socialist League . |
| 18 | Within a few months he was teaching full-time . |
| 19 | Three years later Robert married Mary , the daughter of Stephen Longmoore , a farmer , but within a few months he left for America in order to improve his position . |
| 20 | Within a few months he produced an order from Littlewoods to produce the store 's quarterly catalogue , bringing in £478,000 of business . |