Example sentences of "within a few [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put a piece of raw meat into a stream and within a few hours it will be covered with small , flat , black worms feeding on it . |
| 2 | Within a few minutes it has to return to wet its skin and take a fresh mouthful of water . |
| 3 | Within a few minutes it was adopted unanimously . |
| 4 | Within a few trials it learns to stay on the shelf ( this is called ‘ step-down avoidance ’ ) . |
| 5 | Within a few seasons it should be possible to interpret the motion vectors quantitatively and to represent them in more realistic terms than in the cartoon of Figure 2 . |
| 6 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
| 7 | Within a few years it was the Guns Mill Paper Company . |
| 8 | Within a few years it had evolved into the ASEA , and by 1909 there were seventeen affiliated committees in London and ten in the provinces . |
| 9 | A government clearly that is split both politically and is totally incompetent the government 's majority is now down to eighteen and all the predictions are that within a few weeks it will be down to seventeen . |
| 10 | He was forty-one years of age and still a bachelor , but within a few months it became known that he wished to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson , an American divorcee . |
| 11 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |