Example sentences of "within a few [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if that was n't enough , Patrick Eggle himself telephoned within a few minutes to confer on the requested changes . |
| 2 | Hotel parking is available and although there is n't an in-house restaurant , there are plenty of mouth-watering menus to be found within a few minutes stroll . |
| 3 | A customer walking into a Barclays branch can leave within a few minutes having bought or sold such shares as he wants . |
| 4 | A special intercom linking the theatre with the pathology lab means surgeons can find out the results of a biopsy within a few minutes to establish , for instance , if a tumour they are operating on is malignant . |
| 5 | In most cases the hereditary wardens and foresters of fee , or their heirs , were able within a few years to recover their bailiwicks by payment of substantial fines to the Crown . |
| 6 | He moved to Glasgow and established himself as a provision merchant , but within a few years decided that there were better prospects in the iron trade . |
| 7 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 8 | Such a register carefully maintained in a builder 's organisation will within a few years provide a detailed and comprehensive list of the majority of the subcontract labour available in an area , with consequent improvement in efficiency in locating a suitable work-force . |
| 9 | We hope within a few weeks to move the pair of south bound stops on Clerk Street a little to the north . |
| 10 | But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board . |
| 11 | I had left the technical college in February 1980 and within a few weeks had landed an audio typist 's job with a trendy voluntary housing organization . |
| 12 | Bill and Audrey Clark bought a house for £50,000 , and within a few months discovered that most of the window frames were infested with wet rot and required replacing . |