Example sentences of "within a few hours of " in BNC.
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1 | Also in the house were two children , no doubt lucky to be alive , as Mrs Dyer usually despatched her charges within a few hours of receiving them . |
2 | Within a few hours of becoming queen Anne wrote to the Dutch States-General setting out the basis of her policy . |
3 | Its tail will shrink within a few hours of departure . |
4 | The first organisms , which appear within a few hours of the pool forming , are bacteria , as well as tiny single celled plants and animals called algae and protozoa respectively . |
5 | In b and c , the local times of each point were within a few hours of local noon and so the ClO values may be taken as qualitatively representative of the day maximum , which in run 4 reached 1.1p.p.b.v. at this level . |
6 | And within a few hours of taking it , that 's when this happened to me . |
7 | The process of counting is a proficient one and a sufficient number of results are usually announced within a few hours of the close of the polls to know which party has won the election . |
8 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
9 | And within a few hours of meeting 25-year-old Chris , Heather agreed to spend the rest of her life with him . |
10 | WITHIN a few hours of arriving in Cape Town yesterday morning , the Scotland squad had a training and nets session at a local boys ' school where the facilities were superb . |