Example sentences of "within a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few thousand years , the debris left by the occupants — including some of their remains , their artefacts and the burnt flints — was incorporated in a deposit which was forced into the cave from the outside by water . |
| 2 | Soon an object reaches meteorite size , and then finishes up as a planet-sized object , all within a few thousand years . |
| 3 | Now I accept that if you 're adding up a column of figures you ca n't say well it 's within a few thousand well that 'll do . |
| 4 | After suitable lengthy training for the sacrifice , these psykers would be consumed within a few scant weeks or months , drained of their spirits till they died . |
| 5 | In contrast the Pacific , being so huge , and travelled across by aircraft that tend ( at least for now ) to fly principally between East and West and back again , manages to contain its major routes within a few distinct bands . |
| 6 | Only when we were within a few hundred yards of it could we see the waves frothing over and around it , giving just a hint of the menace below . |
| 7 | Any gas flowing inward across the OLR will naturally be driven by the bar into the region within a few hundred parsecs of the nucleus , the region of the molecular disk . |
| 8 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 9 | In late spring , snow surfaces within a few hundred metres of the coast often show a flush of colour , usually pink , green or brownish-yellow , caused by patches of unicellular or colonial algae . |
| 10 | Large particles will fall out within a few hundred kilometres of the detonation site ( the local fallout ) while smaller particles and gaseous radionuclides injected into the troposphere may be transported around the earth in the same hemisphere and between hemispheres by , for example , the East African low-level jet stream ( Findlater , 1974 ) , to be deposited hundreds or even many thousands of kilometres away ( the tropospheric fallout ) . |
| 11 | Variable and strong low-level winds held most of the individual smoke plumes below an altitude of 3–4 km within a few hundred kilometres of their oilfield sources . |
| 12 | Consequently , the surface is peppered with impact craters , many of which date back to within a few hundred Ma of the Moon 's formation . |
| 13 | Most of the other stars that are visible to the naked eye lie within a few hundred light-years of us . |
| 14 | There were three major ones , standing within a few hundred yards of each other . |
| 15 | If she walks within a few hundred yards of this building , she will see young people , whom the Government have deprived of benefit , sleeping rough and begging on the streets because of the total indifference of people such as the hon. Lady and Conservative Members . |
| 16 | In England and Wales we are singularly placed to appreciate the relationship of scenery and structure , for few other parts of the earth 's surface show in a similar small area so great a diversity of rock types and of landscape features : " Britain is a world by itself " ; its mountains are not high , nor its rivers long , but within a few hundred miles of travel from east to west one may see more varieties of scenery than are to be found in many bigger countries . |
| 17 | But he said : ‘ We would not expect this to be the case when the ambulance station is within a few hundred yards of the person who made the call . ’ |
| 18 | Telomere function seems to be fully defined within a few hundred base pairs in ciliates or yeasts and thousands base pairs in vertebrates . |
| 19 | On an experimental basis at least , Hall argued the effectiveness of liberalization within a few inner-city sites should be explored . |
| 20 | Within the last few years , physicists have come within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero using a new technique called laser entrapment . |
| 21 | They had first closed the door itself , but within seconds it was bristling like a porcupine with glittering bayonets within a few more seconds it had been hacked and splintered to pieces by these bayonets , and now it no longer existed . |
| 22 | Within a few frightening minutes , almost the entire room spills outside choking , swearing and spluttering . |
| 23 | ‘ It is odd that they said so many things to identify themselves within a few short sentences . ’ |
| 24 | And Judson in Burma burying his whole family within a few short years of getting there . |
| 25 | We have seen accomplished within a few brief months or years reforms to which we should have assigned , not decades , but generations . |