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Report Abuse. An egg lives for around 12 hours after ovulation. Sperm can live for about five days inside the uterus, so providing those two time frames collide, it can be pretty soon after sex. Hours, usually. Implantation occurs between 6 - 12 days.
Sperm are seldom able to fertilize an egg after 48 hours of storage in a woman. Sperm can be detected 5 days after sex, but there are generally not enough of them or they don't swim very well, so their ability to fertilize an egg is lost. It's still possible, because you only need one cell to fertilize an egg.