Example sentences of "within [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 2 | Within only a few years the company was exporting its products to central Europe , Russia and the US . |
| 3 | One of the H. Fire development bright colours within only a few days and began a reign of terror . |
| 4 | It can hardly be coincidental that these remarkable evolutionary events , taking place within only a few million years , correspond so closely in time with an episode of exceptional igneous and urogenic activity ( Larsen & Pitman , 1972 ) , the rapid disintegration of Pangaea ( Hallam , 1980 ) and the biggest marine transgression since the mid-Palaeozoic , apparently produced either by a phase of accelerated sea-floor spreading or by a dramatic increase in the length of the ocean ridge system . |
| 5 | Given that it is based on a model which examined variation among electoral wards within only a few regions it could be argued that it is more validly applied at a local level . |
| 6 | Within only a few hours of the big bang , the production of helium and other elements would have stopped . |
| 7 | It has previously been shown that infiltration of lymphocytes in the submucosa occurs within only a few hours after gliadin challenge . |
| 8 | Their babble of French and Arabic made an awful din , but within just a few feet of us they quietened . |
| 9 | Even in our own lifetime , within just a few years , the destruction of the Earth 's natural forests , as well as man 's industry , is increasing the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide , so subtle is the balance . |
| 10 | Sometimes within just a few minutes of the arrival of leaf-eating creatures , the tannin content is up to levels which make not only the leaves under attack , but all the other leaves of the tree toxic or at least unpalatable . |
| 11 | However , within just a few hours , as the region continued to collapse , the difference in the gravitational forces on his head and his feet would become so strong that again it would tear him apart . |