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What is the difference between within weeks and within a matter of weeks ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between within weeks and within a matter of weeks ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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"Within a matter of" in this example, emphasizes that the amount time is small.
Within a matter of weeks he tore down what took years to build.
Although, when spoken "within weeks" can be given the same emphasis, in my opinion.
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"Within weeks" would be used when there is no presumption of what the timeframe would be. "He was bitten by a snake and within weeks he died." To say "within a matter of weeks" gives the subtle inference that it was quicker than expected. "She was diagnosed the first of July and within a matter of weeks she was dead."
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