Example sentences of "within a [adv] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | His mischievous words , however , were to prove within a very few minutes appallingly prescient . |
2 | To her surprise , within a very few minutes of passing the broken signpost , she came upon her ‘ pony tree ’ . |
3 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
4 | In Mr Coleman 's early career , and even until within a very few years , the veterinary art , so far as regards its application to cattle , sheep , swine , dogs , etc. , was in the lowest state of barbarism and degradation . |
5 | If such a system is adopted , it may keep TV viewers happy for a few years , but it will prove a handicap to the growth of information technology and a source of discontent within a very few years . |
6 | Within a very few years it succeeded in drastically altering the climate in its own homelands — much to the pain of surviving Liberals , such as Harnack , who saw in the entire regrettable enterprise the swamping of properly respectable theological and historical study by a wave of sheer barbarism , of uncouth and indeed vulgar ‘ enthusiasm ’ . |
7 | The railway pushed on to Birmingham , the army of navvies departed , the convulsion subsided , and within a very few years |
8 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
9 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
10 | If I stayed on at Bletchley — which I was reluctant to leave — I should scarcely ever see Leslie before the invasion of France , which we all knew was expected within a very few months . |