Example sentences of "[adv] within a few [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | To bring out the contrast with UK policy , we can consider a specific case , that of the MMC inquiry into the White Salt Market. ; Two firms supplied virtually the entire UK salt market and , over the 13 year period taken by the MMC , their prices had been identical and had changed identically within a few weeks of each other . |
2 | A few years earlier Aung San might possibly have taken to the jungle , bandit or resistance fighter according to one 's viewpoint , known only within a few miles of his own home . |
3 | So within a few days of his grudging acceptance by his parliamentary colleagues , Law 's leadership was ratified by the throng of party notables at Leeds ; here he received a reception more typical of what was to come in the future . |
4 | I do n't know when the first visit was , but it must have been very recent , possibly within a few days of your , er , release . ’ |
5 | It broke up within a few years of Anselm 's death under the impact of forces which were too strong for it . |
6 | Jenny came back from Rome and rang Sara up within a few days of arriving home . |
7 | I remember once a large white-tailed mongoose scuttled past within a few feet of us . |
8 | Yet within a few months of Richard 's returning to school he had moved in with Philip , leaving his own family to do so . |
9 | Yet within a few months of starting the technique here two men were badly injured in a roof fall . |