Example sentences of "within [art] few days the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sparrow Force landed at the island 's north-west port of Koebang to protect its airfield , but within a few days the Independent Company , with some Dutch troops , was sent east along the coast to occupy Dili in the Portuguese half of the island ( see map p. 77 ) where they landed on 17 December 1941 . |
| 2 | Within a few days the troubled Asylum Bill itself disappeared from the Lord 's timetable for the remainder of the current Parliament . |
| 3 | Within a few days the whispers had become a roar — South Africa for the 1995 World Cup . |
| 4 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
| 5 | As soon as this is big enough to cling to , the speed of construction accelerates and within a few days the wall has become a semicircular cup of creamy white interlacing strings that is just big enough to hold the customary clutch of two eggs . |
| 6 | Within a few days the Slovene peasants of the Krka valley between Novo Mesto and the Croatian border had also risen . |
| 7 | Within a few days the oil slick , first reported on Jan. 24 , had grown to measure 55 km long by 15 km wide . |