Example sentences of "[vb pp] within [art] few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four have undergone doping tests and the results are expected within a few days . |
| 2 | The collection from the nest was made within a few days of the fledglings leaving the nest , and the broken up and trampled remains of pellets and bones from the nest can be mostly attributed to the regurgitated pellets of the fledglings . |
| 3 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 6 | A political truce was called within a few days of the outbreak of war ; a pact to end contested by-elections was first signed on 6 August , and a joint recruiting drive began before the end of the month . |
| 7 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |
| 8 | A personalised pay-in book will also be posted within a few days of opening the account . |
| 9 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 10 | ‘ Whoever put the clothes there might reasonably have expected that they would be found within a few days ? ’ |
| 11 | The town , protected only by a dry-stone wall , surrendered within a few days , on 8 January 1746 . |
| 12 | Most items are available from stock , or can be delivered within a few days . |
| 13 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
| 14 | An example of a condition caused in this way is phenylketonuria — one of the so-called ‘ inborn errors of metabolism ’ — an inherited biochemical disorder for which babies are now routinely tested within a few days of birth . |
| 15 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 16 | The effect was electric : the girl was released within a few days ; the man remained in jail and in fact served a very long sentence . |
| 17 | It gets larger , and dormant chick genes become reactivated within a few days . |