Example sentences of "within a few [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise , within a few decades Genestealers would have begun to infiltrate your own family , polluting and hypnotizing . ’ |
| 2 | The men followed them and within a few moments lord Hulton and I were standing there just as before watching the tiny figures on the skyline , listening to the distant " Haow , haow ! " |
| 3 | Large grocery multiples and the oil companies have led the way in retail modelling , and some now reckon to be able to predict new store or site performance to within a few percentage points . " |
| 4 | Any one of the three main political parties could take the seat because they were within a few percentage points of each other at the last election . |
| 5 | Glynn 's fax duly arrived and when it became apparent that the wiring was beyond the skills of a cack-handed caveman they promptly offered to collect the guitar ( I only live in Aberdeen ! ) , modify it and return it within a few working days . |
| 6 | But within a few hours Mal was suffering exhaustion and Bill had injured himself falling on diamond-hard green ice on the Lhotse Face . |
| 7 | Within a few hours Denwood was stripped of everything , there was not a soul or a vestige of its recent occupation to be seen in the place . |
| 8 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 9 | Within a few hours drive of Gwent , for instance , lie some fascinating areas — the Forest of Dean , formerly a major coal-producing area ; Snowdonia , where the evidence of centuries of quarrying and mineral extraction is heaped everywhere ; Pembrokeshire , where pretty fishing villages once exported coal , and Cornwall where mining was once a much bigger earner than cream teas . |
| 10 | At the weekends he can be anywhere within a few hours drive doing the job of a ‘ Sapper ’ the army 's word for a Military Engineer . |
| 11 | The Thermai is only 80 metres from the centre of town and both Old Rhodes Town and the nightlife are within a few minutes walk . |
| 12 | There is no evening meal , but there are restaurants and pubs within a few minutes walk including the Royal Hotel , an old coaching house , with an elegant dining room equipped with pianist , and also the Snooty Fox , a charming pub with attractive beamed ceilings . |
| 13 | There 's a cosy hotel bar and although there 's no restaurant in the hotel , there are many good establishments within a few minutes walk . |
| 14 | Although there 's no restaurant in the hotel , there are plenty of good establishments within a few minutes walk . |
| 15 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 16 | Within a few minutes Elisa was on the settee in the sitting room where , at last , she regained consciousness . |
| 17 | Reinhardt at once invited him to join his Viennese theatre company , and within a few seasons Henreid had become one of its leading players . |
| 18 | Within a few years clubs appeared all over the country . |
| 19 | observed in the Anton Piller case that orders should ‘ rarely ’ be made , within a few years Goulding J. remarked that ‘ such is the proven efficiency of that type of order and such is the extent of dishonest trading in this country at the present time , that it is a matter of weekly occurrence and sometimes of daily occurrence for the Chancery Division ’ to make such orders , which are also regularly made in the Queen 's Bench Division . |
| 20 | Within a few years Raffles had realised his dream . |
| 21 | His success was short-lived and within a few years Ivan had to accept Turkish suzerainty . |
| 22 | Within a few years Dunkirk Mills was under the control , although not in the complete ownership of Peter Playne , of a long-established clothier family of Flemish descent . |
| 23 | But within a few years Browne 's fortunes were restored : he acquired monopolies of the manufacture and sales of both iron and bronze ordnance , as well as iron pots , kettles , chimney backs , and iron weights ‘ in the French manner ’ . |
| 24 | Within a few days Caledonia was in complete agreement : the entire team should take up golf . |
| 25 | Within a few days people phoned or called to confirm their attendance . |
| 26 | Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works . |
| 27 | A treaty was signed outside Haddington , and within a few weeks Mary , Queen of Scots , was on her way from Dumbarton to Paris . |
| 28 | Within a few weeks Richard was loading Marshal with honours , lands and responsibility and an incident such as this , combining skill at arms with sound political common sense , could well have impressed him . |
| 29 | Within a few months Peter , too , was offered a job , initially to help Bernard market home furnishing fabrics on a wholesale basis . |
| 30 | Devastated , within a few months Kirchner committed suicide at his Davos home where he had lived since World War I. The museum has been designed by the young team of Zurich architects Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer who won the brief in 1989 . |