Example sentences of "within a few [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But within a few moments we were sipping extra-dry martinis from paper cups , then eating cold chicken and tinned ham , with beer chilled by the sea . |
| 2 | Within a few moments I had been directed to the Gasthof zur Alte Post and installed myself in a tiny room which was to cost about £12 for the night , including breakfast . |
| 3 | Within a few moments I was on a floater , crossing the fairly well-lit spaceport , still with no one in sight anywhere around me . |
| 4 | Within a few moments you will start to lose your balance . |
| 5 | Within a few pages we move through a recognition and rejection of the fantasy of the Perfect Mother , an understanding of her mothers ' reality and an account of telling her mother , who Is at this point 80 . |
| 6 | He knows what he 's galloping , he knows within a few pounds what he wants . |
| 7 | But on the ramparts nothing appeared ; when the Collector tried transplanting weeds , bushes , vegetation of every kind , within a few hours everything had wilted . |
| 8 | The proteins move in the electric current at a speed which depends on their electric charge and molecular weights , and within a few hours they have become distributed along the length of the gel — the procedure is called gel electrophoresis . |
| 9 | Within a few hours they had 50 signatures . |
| 10 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Within a few hours she was transferred to the neurosurgical unit at Addenbrookes hospital , Cambridge . |
| 14 | The cat , delighted that its ordeal was over , burrowed under the covers like a furry hot-water bottle , and although Mildred had only meant to sit and get warm , within a few minutes her eyelids began to droop , and before long she was fast asleep — so fast asleep that she did not hear the door opening very quietly . |
| 15 | Unable to stop paddling for fear of capsizing , Tony and I can not put on our anoraks and within a few minutes we are soaked by the freezing combination of sea and rain . |
| 16 | Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King . |
| 17 | Within a few minutes my body was one mass of bruises from head to toe . |
| 18 | Within a few minutes she saw him riding towards her up the hill , his horse 's harness glinting in the sun . |
| 19 | Whatever mood you are in when you arrive at HCI 's Club Romantica … you can be sure that within a few minutes you 'll feel at home in this pretty village of chalet bungalows surrounded by trees and flowers . |
| 20 | Within a few minutes he had noticed a scruffy individual walk into the Oak public house , Stoke Row . |
| 21 | ‘ Frankie would buy a wonderful new suit and within a few minutes he 'd look as though he 'd slept in it . |
| 22 | I was told how to contact him in Rome and within a few minutes he was on the line . |
| 23 | Within a few minutes it has to return to wet its skin and take a fresh mouthful of water . |
| 24 | Within a few minutes it was adopted unanimously . |
| 25 | I am hot and sticky from my drive , but the scent of lilac drifts in from the garden with the sound of blackbirds , and within a few minutes I feel much at home . |
| 26 | Within a few minutes I not only felt but heard the tissue in the sinuses beginning to break up , and by the time he had finished both were completely clear . |
| 27 | Within a few trials it learns to stay on the shelf ( this is called ‘ step-down avoidance ’ ) . |
| 28 | She 's soaking wet and within a few thrusts I 'm ready to come and she 's panting , then grunting then calling out , ‘ Oh , fuck , yes ! ’ and then it 's all over and I collapse over her and then fall off her and almost cut my ear on the cool blade of the kitchen knife lying on the sheet . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |