It is also said that another was dead within several months.

You'd have been dead within a few more days, at most.

But your father was dead within a day or two.

The doctor told my mother that he would be dead within six months.

My parents were told I would be dead within a year.

"Based on the levels I just saw, you will almost certainly be dead within a year."

His doctor told him he might well be dead within five years.

And 95 percent are dead within a month, he said.

The old man would probably be dead within weeks, if not days.

They could be dead within minutes of such a decision.