Example sentences of "die within [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I remember two aunts and an uncle , all very dear to me , dying within a few months .
2 All anencephalus children are either miscarried , die stillborn , or die within a few weeks of life .
3 Research has shown that some old people can not survive the emotional shock of moving to the Home and die within a few weeks .
4 He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss .
5 His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 .
6 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 …
7 Father and son had died within a few days of each other …
8 ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . )
9 My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him .
10 Conceivably the entire lake could die within a few years .
11 Almost all of them will die within a few weeks of being shed .
12 Most fatalities from T. canis infection occur during the pulmonary phase , and pups which have been heavily infected transplacentally may die within a few days of birth .
13 He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people .
14 He persuaded her to bring her husband home , where he died within a few weeks .
15 The Abbot and over half the monks of Battle perished , eight of the thirteen canons of Mitchelham , most of the heads of religious houses , and up to half of the rest of the county 's population died within a few months , although the effects varied from community to community .
16 Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days .
17 When Miss Louisa had a second more severe stroke at the end of August , and Miss Ellen another heart attack , both old ladies died within a few days of each other .
18 Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other .
19 Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle , only to die within a few months .
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