Example sentences of "[vb past] within a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These processes occurred within a pattern of international trade which was dominated by the exchange of manufactured goods for manufactured goods between the major economies . |
| 2 | The merger boom of the 1960s occurred within a general business ethos of ‘ big is beautiful ’ . |
| 3 | Recovery occurred within a market in which everything which was produced could be sold . |
| 4 | Herbert Morrison once argued that ministers were responsible for every stamp stuck on every envelope and that if faults occurred within a department , the minister was at fault in that he had failed to lay down adequate procedures and systems of control . |
| 5 | In some of the other source studies discounting was quite appropriately not applied as all costs and benefits occurred within a year . |
| 6 | In the former study the transition occurred within a homopolymeric AT sequence , while in the second a GpA junction ( of type XS ) was concerned . |
| 7 | His victory was all the more remarkable given that it occurred within a context of continuing economic difficulties including heavy external debt , a severe current-account deficit , high interest rates and rising inflation . |
| 8 | The celebrations had a particular relevance in 1990 as they occurred within a context of deteriorating relations between Cuba and the USA resulting from the activities of Television Martí , a new Florida-based , Spanish-speaking television station created to beam anti-Castro propaganda at Cuba . |
| 9 | Three separate incidents apparently occurred within a fortnight of the start of this month including one in which a vial of radio-active substance was spilt . |
| 10 | Substitute Dean Gordon gave Comrades a tonic when he scored within a minute of coming on at the start of the second half , but David Montgomery got Carrick 's third two minutes from the end , with Wesley Hanna being sent off for protesting just a little too vociferously . |
| 11 | Substitute Dean Gordon gave Comrades a tonic when he scored within a minute of coming on at the start of the second half , but David Montgomery got Carrick 's third two minutes from the end , with Wesley Hanna sent off for protesting . |
| 12 | Last year , Britain hosted within a few weeks of each other the Moscow City Ballet , Moscow Classical Ballet , Moscow Ballet La Classique and the Russian State Ballet . |
| 13 | Ford came within a whisker of pulling off one of motorsport 's biggest upsets in January when the seven-speed Sierra Cosworth 4x4 of Francois Delecour and Ann Chantal Pauwels almost won the Monte Carlo Rally . |
| 14 | THERE are only six Leicester Riders left in the saddle , but yesterday they came within a basket of carrying off the weekend 's biggest surprise . |
| 15 | NORWICH and Peterborough Pirates came within a point of booking a place in the Heineken Championship semi-finals at Wembley when drawing 6–6 with the Seahawks last night at Humberside . |
| 16 | In 1935–36 Albert came within a single goal of achieving something no Palace player has yet managed — topping the Football League list of goalscorers — for he hit 38 goals and only W.G. Richardson of West Bromwich got 39 . |
| 17 | As a result , it was also decided to run a wire to each of the firemen 's houses which came within a very small radius of the works , and to put a wire between each night watchman and the central depot . |
| 18 | The South Wales Cricket Association XI came within a raindrop of becoming the first British team to meet South Africa during their tour of Australia and New Zealand . |
| 19 | ‘ We know a travel agent who came within a whisker of losing his job , all for innocently caressing a colleague 's bum while she was closing a sale on a two-week package to Alicante on the phone . ’ |
| 20 | Trafalgar came within a hair 's breadth of being the first company to be taken to court by the Financial Reporting Review Panel last year ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 10 ) . |
| 21 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 22 | At one point I was so inordinately shy of girls that I would blush and tremble if one came within a 50-yard radius of me . ’ |
| 23 | This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week . |
| 24 | It was Dyble who broke the deadlock with a penalty in the first minute and centre Kelly Wagland came within a whisker of scoring an early try when stopped inches short of the line . |
| 25 | Chesterfield came within a whisker of shocking Liverpool in this amazing Coca Cola Cup-tie . |
| 26 | As she came within a block of Marlin 's building she remembered something she 'd utterly put out of her head for that six-year span . |
| 27 | As she came within a few yards of it , however , a shudder passed down its spine , and it rolled over , showing its face to the sleet . |
| 28 | He 'd wanted to escort her home but she had threatened to commit arson if he came within a quarter of a mile of the theatre . |
| 29 | Proof came within a short time when in November 1983 more than five hundred deaf people from all over the country joined other disabled groups at Westminster in an impressive lobby in support of a Private Member 's Bill , introduced by Robert Wareing MP , which sought to make discrimination against all disabled people illegal . |
| 30 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |