Example sentences of "[noun] within a few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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1 | On one occasion I lay down for a rest , dozed off for 15 minutes , and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form . |
2 | If employees leave their organisations within a few months of relocation , the heavy financial investment in them will be wasted . |
3 | As well as the noise the couple would have to put up with a landfill site within a few yards of their garden . |
4 | Both modern and ancient zones show intense reaction within a few centimetres of the soil surface , perhaps the area with least preservation potential , but very little alteration of the original sediment below that depth . |
5 | This is done for its own sake but it is found that the primary sufferer will quite commonly seek treatment through his or her appropriate Anonymous Fellowship within a few months of the family member seeking his or her own recovery . |
6 | His recall of the Parlement of Paris within a few months of his accession , his failure to support his radically reforming Controller-General Turgot ( 1774–76 ) , showed that he was no more able than his grandfather to withstand the opposition of the privileged groups . |
7 | Observations were taken over three weekdays within a few days of each other to cover the period between 8.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. , so that at each datapoint there were 1980 ( 11 hours x 60 minutes x 3 ) observations of activity for each individual . |
8 | It is a voracious blood-sucker and even 100–200 worms are sufficient to produce death in sheep within a few weeks of infection . |
9 | When I went to Germany within a few days of the end of the war , it was rather remarkable to go to a Luftwaffe air field with many aircraft , all intact and fully serviceable , but with their tanks — dry not a drop of oil was to be found on those bases . |
10 | The bank is looking for someone canny — not to say extremely gifted — who has developed the right skills in a reasonably sized corporate environment within a few years of qualifying . |
11 | AND you receive the magazine within a few days of UK publication . |
12 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
13 | The Chief Constable must have called in the Yard within a few minutes of getting the news . |
14 | In any case , one or another form of ‘ Christianity ’ must have reached Britain within a few years of the time specified by Gildas . |
15 | ‘ Citation frequency within a few years of publication is a reliable indicator of a paper 's lifetime citation expectancy . ’ |
16 | Also in the house were two children , no doubt lucky to be alive , as Mrs Dyer usually despatched her charges within a few hours of receiving them . |
17 | You can expect to see a visible improvement within a few months of regular practice . |
18 | A majority of Democrats , however , having accepted budget cuts of $7,000 million in 1991 , were unprepared to make another round of even deeper cuts within a few weeks of state elections . |
19 | The travelling chaos of a modern party leader 's election entourage had carried Major within a few miles of the home of the founder of the profession , a few of whose more troublesome contemporary practitioners are said to have caused him much irritation over the 16 months of his premiership . |
20 | The money will be deducted from your current account within a few days of your purchase — just like a cheque , but so much easier . |
21 | The steps would be : ( i ) the drafting by CODESA within a few months of a constitution for a transitional government ; ( ii ) a national referendum on the transitional constitution , probably before the end of the year ; ( iii ) a general election to choose a new multiracial parliament and government , the composition of both to be determined by the transitional constitution [ see p. 38422 for NP 's views on composition of both bodies ] ; ( iv ) the commencement of rule by the transitional government , on the authority of the transitional parliament , which would take over from CODESA as the negotiating forum for the " final " constitution ; and ( v ) adoption of the final constitution , probably with another referendum . |
22 | The missiles would blast out of their launchers , navigate automatically across Europe , and land within a few metres of targets such as airfields , ports , power stations , dams and locks . |
23 | Howard had tried all the proprietary athlete 's foot remedies , but found they were only partially effective ; the infection would always return with a vengeance within a few days of discontinuing with the ointment or powder . |
24 | Peter Hall and Trevor Nunn made their reputations within a few years of leaving Cambridge . |
25 | All cabinet council meetings took place in the west wing of the White House within a few feet of the Oval Office . |
26 | Police in north Oxfordshire believe the same thieves may have been behind two separate raids within a few miles of each other at Steeple Aston ; both raids were part of a spate of break-ins reported to police in the Fox F M area . |
27 | This hormone is produced by the developing embryo within a few days of the egg being fertilised . |
28 | His work was paralleled by that of William Greenwell [ q.v. ] , but whereas Greenwell extended his researches over all the northern English counties and Gloucestershire , Mortimer confined his activities to the region within a few miles of his base at Driffield . |
29 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |
30 | ‘ It is just 21 months since we received approval to go ahead with the project , and we are delighted that we have started up production within a few weeks of a date that many thought was unrealistic ! ’ |