Example sentences of "[prep] within an " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a lot of I mean I mean there 's no sort of set- up and strategy for rail as a sort of within an integrated transport policy phone call from er John Prescott who er Tories in in transport . |
| 2 | It was not just that degenerates were thought to be intelligent and gifted ; their intelligence manifested one of the most disturbing paradoxes of the perverse : a vitiating regression to the primitive from within an advanced cultural sophistication . |
| 3 | Applicants seeking credits for areas of study , for Sections of the certificate level areas C1 or C2 , or for elements from within an area of study at diploma level must submit their application to the HCIMA and should have received a favourable decision prior to enrolment on a programme or area of study . |
| 4 | It has a mass of 91.1 GeV ( a thousand million electronvolts ) — roughly 100 times the mass of the proton — to within an accuracy of 0.06GeV . |
| 5 | Severe oak , polished to within an inch of its late-lamented life , lined the walls to the door of the morning room . |
| 6 | In results reported last summer ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p WS ) , their data confirmed quantum mechanics to within an even higher degree of accuracy than previous experiments . |
| 7 | Even with such an unsophisticated method Galileo 's estimates turned out to be correct to within an order of magnitude . |
| 8 | To within an inch , how tall ? |
| 9 | SWEET AND TENDER HOOLIGAN Bob Mould In the '80s Bob Mould led the line in Hüsker Dü and frightened pop music to within an inch of its life . |
| 10 | It also has a solid spruce top with an ‘ aged ’ tone finish , vintage-style X-bracing scalloped and shifted to within an inch of the soundhole , tortoiseshell-style binding , a bridge and fingerboard of rosewood , ebony-buttoned machines , pearl diamonds on the bridge and a pre-war ‘ diamonds and squares ’ abalone inlay pattern down the fingerboard . |
| 11 | Although Dustin as the glum insecure centre of the film is amusing — looking rather like Eddie Cantor on tranquillisers — he is directed to within an inch of his life . |
| 12 | Up until the last minute of press day , our lines are always open , the overworked , underpaid hordes of YTS types we use to compile the stories thrashed to within an inch of their lives with our old school ties if they miss so much as one happening event . |
| 13 | Within seconds it had managed to work some of the food to within an arm 's length of the tube entrance . |
| 14 | Possibly the latter was due to our handling of it — we were accustomed to pressing woollen garments to within an inch of their lives and we did much the same to our synthetic garments . |
| 15 | You could never be absolutely sure , Jasper thought , that up there in the tunnel roof there would n't be some great iron bar or post sticking down to within an inch or two of the top of the car . |
| 16 | ( d ) Continue to fill the basket with soil/compost to within an inch or so of the top , and then cover with a layer of pea shingle . |
| 17 | By the time Jamal Hamadan , accompanied by Sami Jafaar , arrived in Cyprus to meet his old friend at the Filanta hotel , Sergeant Mikalis had been banished to police school in Germany , and his successors in the room down the hall from the ‘ hot ’ suite had been drilled by Coleman to within an inch of their lives . |
| 18 | This time , every drawer , every shelf and every surface was cleaned to within an inch of its life , and the tiled floor scrubbed till it shone . |
| 19 | and if I ca n't get want I want at the Famlingham Textile Centre which is excellent when I next need fabrics I shall come up , I will come up to London and I 'll go to Libertys , but I will have measured first of all to within an inch as to what I want because |