Example sentences of "[adj] within a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This man Riddle must have had a taste for nuts and raisins ; he seems to have eaten quite a few within a couple of hours before his death . ’ |
| 2 | Before long , however , conscious that their secondment was at most 23 months , secondees began planning for departure , some within a year of appointment . |
| 3 | Any mother who has to deal with the separation of one child and the divorce of another within a matter of weeks would be upset . |
| 4 | The extent of the surrender varies from one person to another , and the assumptions about the claim to privacy also vary — not only from one person to another within a given group or society , but from one society to another and from one historical period to another . |
| 5 | He can show how choices of language are interrelated to one another within a network of functional choices . |
| 6 | What happens if a company is sold to one private sector owner but is transferred to another within a year ? |
| 7 | Its policy on Europe could best be described as jerking from one extreme to another within a few years , at one moment leaving the European Community altogether and in the next being willing to sign up to anything for which the EC asks ; at one moment supporting the closed shop and in the next denigrating it . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that modern history grows old within a week , I commend that book to people who want to understand what is happening in that part of the world . |
| 9 | It was hoped to accomplish all this within a week . |
| 10 | When there is the experience of acceptance like this within a marriage , when you know you are truly loved and accepted , then there is the possibility of change and growth . |
| 11 | We shall place this within a general discussion of what it means to represent ‘ a text ’ . |
| 12 | But we really do n't feel it should be done as openly as this within a community of young families and children . |
| 13 | ‘ We are delighted to have achieved this within a year . |
| 14 | Drop it down , in this Pentiford yep , ours is filled with all sorts of gear , for instance decontamination , you know erm after a , a chemical incidence you 've got to clean yourself off without contaminating everybody else , and you can do this within a pod , it 's been so designed that you can walk in one way dirty , and walk out another way clean , and |
| 15 | Multiple or recurrent bacterial infections ( any combination of > 2 within a two year period ) of the following types in a child < 13 years of age : septicaemia , pneumonia , meningitis , bone or joint infection , or abscess of an internal organ or body cavity ( excluding otitis media or superficial skin or mucosal abscesses ) , caused by Haemophilus , Streptococcus ( including pneumococcus ) , or other pyogenic bacteria . |
| 16 | The Rome Treaty envisaged the creation of the EEC ( by the original ‘ Six ’ ) 2 within a transition period of twelve years , which would end in December 1969 . |
| 17 | The important point is this : is the use of an overseas company like Sterling ( where inquiries about the real ownership of shareholdings in threatened companies are met with a polite but firm snub ) acceptable within a legalframework trying to ensure fair play ? |
| 18 | Options will be granted under seal and will be exercisable within a period of ten years and will entitle the recipients to acquire ordinary shares in the Company at a price determined by the Committee , being not less than the average of the middle market quotations for such shares as derived from the Daily Official List of The Stock Exchange for the three dealing days immediately preceding the date of grant or the market value ( as agreed with the Inland Revenue ) of the shares as at the date of grant ( or , in the case of new shares , their nominal value if greater ) . |
| 19 | This means that we shall have to choose a unc which is only non-zero within a range Ax . |
| 20 | Newcastle Emlyn Castle was built in approximately 1240 within a loop on the River Teifi and it saw action in 1648 when it was blown up by Cromwell 's men . |
| 21 | This kind of statement contrasts very sharply with the maps and lists of traditional dialectology , where elements are generally treated as if they were categorical within a given region . |
| 22 | Duke John and the Earl of Cambridge laid siege to Quimperlê , probably on 23 June , and after a heavy English assault the garrison agreed that if they were not relieved within a week they would surrender . |
| 23 | ‘ A piece of property which is found ownerless and which , if unclaimed within a fixed period after due notice given , falls to the lord of the manor . ’ |
| 24 | Because the lumen of the same crypt is visible within a maximal range of 50 µm , every 15th section was stained and counted to ensure that the same crypt was not counted twice . |
| 25 | You need to be consistent within a single interaction . |
| 26 | They give rise to behavioural responses to external stimuli that are enduring and consistent within a person 's psychological constitution . |
| 27 | Consistent within a framework of regional guidance . |
| 28 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 29 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |
| 30 | Rot , either in the glue or the wood or both , was only too likely within a few months . |