Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] within [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 2 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 3 | It gets larger , and dormant chick genes become reactivated within a few days . |
| 4 | The calculation behind the memorial was naturally that most of the women would leave to get married within a few years . |
| 5 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 6 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 7 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 8 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 9 | There was no significant difference in the rate at which AIDS progressed in the two groups ; about 8 per cent in each group had died within the three years . |
| 10 | The gun had landed within a few inches of Blake . |
| 11 | While many restrictive practices and problems remained , trade had increased within the heavy industries of the Six . |
| 12 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |
| 13 | Erm , so I 'll agree with Mr Grigson that we do suggest there are more households changing their own dwellings , but it 's simply because we 're trying to iron out of the problems that we feel have occurred within the major estimates . |
| 14 | Since their work covered such a vast range of subjects , it is necessary to limit the discussion to topics which have arisen within the traditional limits of anthropology , and to leave to other studies an examination of Marx 's and Engels 's views of such periods as feudalism or ancient Greece and Rome , since these fall more under the orbit of historical studies . |