Example sentences of "within a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few days , she was back with news of a suitable place . |
| 2 | Taiwanese residents who were members of the Hawaiian-based group Earthtrust contacted the Honolulu headquarters , and within a few days , an international team , led by Michael Bailey , arrived at Penghu to negotiate for the release of the remaining animals . |
| 3 | The same picture is supported by a mass of reports from many different localities , where , within a few days , the Propaganda Ministry had organized well-attended demonstrations of the ‘ spontaneous expression of will of our people about the foul attempt on the Führer 's life ’ . |
| 4 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 5 | Within a few days she had resolved to flee the country — her husband would not leave his business — and to join her parents , who had settled in London in 1936 . |
| 6 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |
| 7 | This case began before my use of LM 's and I prescribed Lycopodium 6C three times daily which dealt with the symptoms within a few days . |
| 8 | After aggravation with an LM potency , there should be amelioration within a few days ( 24 hours in my experience ) , if there is a subsequent return of symptoms requiring the same remedy resume treatment not with the same potency but the next higher one . |
| 9 | Within a few days most of the patrols had either been killed or captured and the enemy occupied their rendezvous at Bir Fascia . |
| 10 | SAVE produced a leaflet , above , within a few days as part of the campaign . |
| 11 | Thrush Green was sorry to hear that he had never been married , had been married unhappily and was now separated from his wife , had been happily married and lost his wife in childbirth , and ( disastrously ) still married , with a wife who would be coming to live with him at the corner house within a few days . |
| 12 | It gets larger , and dormant chick genes become reactivated within a few days . |
| 13 | When it came to within a few days of my scheduled departure date , I said to Michael , ‘ I suppose it 's too late now . ’ |
| 14 | Within a few days of his election , Barbarossa was crowned on the 9th March 1152 . |
| 15 | Within a few days we had become bystanders , watching things happen beyond our control . |
| 16 | The money will be deducted from your current account within a few days of your purchase — just like a cheque , but so much easier . |
| 17 | Howard had tried all the proprietary athlete 's foot remedies , but found they were only partially effective ; the infection would always return with a vengeance within a few days of discontinuing with the ointment or powder . |
| 18 | Coleridge and Sara began their married life more conventionally , and within a few days he was writing in enraptured terms to Tom Poole from their ‘ comfortable Cot ’ in Clevedon : ‘ the prospect around us is perhaps more various than any in the kingdom — Mine Eye gluttonizes. — The Sea — the distant Islands ! the opposite Coasts ! — I shall assuredly write Rhymes — let the nine Muses prevent it , if they can . ’ |
| 19 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
| 20 | Justification for Scott 's impressive display in the House of Commons became apparent within a few days of his drawings being hung . |
| 21 | Within a few days Caledonia was in complete agreement : the entire team should take up golf . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The therapist realized that some changes in the couples ' situation would have to occur within a few days if another crisis were to be avoided . |
| 24 | Within a few days you will have identified the relevant muscles needed to stop the flow . |
| 25 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
| 26 | The town , protected only by a dry-stone wall , surrendered within a few days , on 8 January 1746 . |
| 27 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
| 28 | Within a few days of its unveiling Achilles was modestly kitted out with a fig leaf . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Within a few days she had recovered enough to play practice chukkas , going straight into fast polo as though she 'd played it all her life . |