If not destroyed within half an hour, they were beyond approach.

"And now a small group of people have destroyed everything within a few hours."

She has the power that can destroy the world within ten days.

But the mind of the victim was destroyed within the first hour.

We could be there in half an hour, your mother and her home destroyed within a minute after that.

In 1921, a major fire destroyed all machinery within the power house.

The disease has the potential to destroy a crop within weeks.

He warned that the world would be destroyed within a few hours.

Such records must now be destroyed within 24 hours as a result of a change ordered by Congress last year.

At this rate, the forest will be completely destroyed within the next 30 years.