Example sentences of "within a few [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They warn that the number of lakes affected may double within a few decades unless air pollution in Europe is halved . |
| 2 | After multiple cycles of amplification contaminating RNA species are no longer a problem and there is plenty of material to clone , sequence , or otherwise analyse , all within a few hours and with minimal manual intervention . |
| 3 | The airport fire service was alongside the wreck within a few minutes but there was little the firemen could do . |
| 4 | The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum . |
| 5 | The effect of these inhibitors was evident within a few minutes and lasted for at least one hour . |
| 6 | The incident was under control within a few minutes and no-one was injured . |
| 7 | I have found Roman , medieval and Georgian losses within a few yards when working suburban grass verges . |
| 8 | Within a few years that same young man had determined that things could be put right and that he was the man to do it . |
| 9 | But it was also the beginning of the split between law-abiders and law-breakers which was to cripple the movement within a few years and lead to its decline . |
| 10 | Its equipment was removed within a few years and , by the late 1920s , it had become home to the Belvedere Upholstery Company , operated by the Tyler family . |
| 11 | It matters not ; within a few years and many fast and furious films later , he was being heralded not as the king of exploitation but as something of a genius , to which description he again did not object . |
| 12 | Yet in most of the cases they present , the hoaxer was found out within a few years and promptly punished with significant disgrace . |
| 13 | The therapist realized that some changes in the couples ' situation would have to occur within a few days if another crisis were to be avoided . |
| 14 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 15 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
| 16 | The bank would give him facilities to purchase the business to the extent of seventy five thousand pounds if he agreed to sell his property at and from the proceeds of sale to repay the bridging facility in its entirety and they would provide a sixteen thousand pounds business loan and overdraught facilities to be reduced by five thousand pounds within a few days and if the six thousand pounds rent deposit was not required then the business loan would be reduced to ten thousand pounds . |
| 17 | They drew down to the back of the hummock which remained an ivy-grown tump until they were within a few paces and could see rough-hewn timber planks behind it . |
| 18 | THE Director of Public Prosecutions , Mr Allan Green , QC , is expected to decide within a few weeks whether to press corporate manslaughter charges against British Rail , the Crown Prosecution Service said yesterday . |
| 19 | The improvement in arthritis , gout , blood pressure , diabetes , or blood cholesterol level may be dramatic , and evident within a few weeks or months of a dietary programme . |
| 20 | The water-soluble vitamins , however , are not usually stored in the body in any great amount , so deficiency can develop within a few weeks or months if the diet is poor . |
| 21 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 22 | Most found jobs within a few weeks and the longest any of them was unemployed was three months . |
| 23 | Your holiday abroad should follow within a few months while your memory is fresh . |
| 24 | The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here . |