Example sentences of "within a few [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Within a few hours they had 50 signatures . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're safe now — only another step or two ! ’ they heard Chuck call out , and within a few seconds they were both thankfully flinging their arms round the firm , strongly rooted trunks of the saplings on the ridge . |
| 6 | Within a few seconds they had all vanished into tiny , black holes . |
| 7 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
| 8 | The captain had told her that they were now off Porto , and that within a few days they would be entering the Tagus . |
| 9 | Within a few weeks they were regular visitors . |
| 10 | Walt Disney organises two to three raids a month on Thai pirates ; but according to Brandt Handley , head of Walt Disney 's consumer products division in South-East Asia , in most cases ‘ within a few weeks they are back at it again under another name and location . ’ |
| 11 | Within a few weeks they had put Pedro to flight and Henry was crowned king . |
| 12 | Within a few months they moved to the east coast of Scotland where they were allocated a large stretch of coastline , from Rosyth to Montrose , to protect from the very real threat of German invasion . |