Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a matter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We think she corroded for only a matter of weeks before being colonised . |
| 2 | Even the good ones might remain for only a matter of months . |
| 3 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
| 4 | Bobby Hunt , owing to Minton 's advice , managed to escape from the army after only a matter of months . |
| 5 | And then to withhold one 's vote as with almost a matter of habit and routine , that can not be in the best interests of the Conservative party . |
| 6 | He gestured towards the door , where Hilary Frome was standing , flaunting his fair hair and profile , and looking still more like an illustration of one of Baden Powell 's scouting manuals ; a fine specimen of British boyhood , who in only a matter of a year or two might be imagined assuming the burden of Empire , and administering imperial justice with rod and gun to one or other of the lesser breeds without the law . |
| 7 | We established that she and Sir Richard are lovers , adulterers , fornicators , and in only a matter of time we could have had a confession that they were guilty of Sir Thomas 's death as well as the . |
| 8 | The Victorian-built and now rundown Oxford prison WAS to close , together with 5 other jails within just a matter of weeks . |
| 9 | A heavy snowfall can transform an easy walk into a serious proposition in just a matter of hours . |
| 10 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 11 | Bureaucratic responsiveness in thus a matter of relations between institutions . |
| 12 | This item of equipment enabled the rapid assembly features of the whole range of equipment to be fully exploited , and reduced the erection times for some major bridging operations , from what would normally be months to merely a matter of days . |
| 13 | It is very laborious and time-consuming , involving the researcher full-time for at least a matter of months , and sometimes years . |
| 14 | It will take by then a matter of weeks to determine the complete DNA sequence of such a gene . |