Example sentences of "come within a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you do need the different personalities to come within a group to make a group successful . |
| 2 | Within the last few years , physicists have come within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero using a new technique called laser entrapment . |
| 3 | Lotus had another go at four-wheel drive the following year , this time with gas turbine power The dramatically wedged-shaped 56B was a development of the car that had come within a whisker of tinning the 1968 Indy 500 . |
| 4 | Nutty realised afterwards that they had come within a hairs-breadth of total disaster . |
| 5 | With the musical fare so poor — only the opening salvo of the title track and ‘ Wild Hearted Son ’ come within a coyote 's howl of the last brace of albums — the focus drifts inevitably towards what Astbury is singing about … with comic results . |
| 6 | The summons had come within a week . |
| 7 | At present , the vast majority of people who work for the Scottish Transport Group come within a pension scheme-TOPS . |
| 8 | This time he had come within a stone of beating the Han . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Chesterfield came within a whisker of shocking Liverpool in this amazing Coca Cola Cup-tie . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | As Lisa pulled the door open Josey stepped out into the night … and literally came within a hair 's breadth of walking straight into the tall dark figure who was striding up the path . |
| 28 | No magician capable of such enchantments ever came within a mile of Morpork docks . |
| 29 | The dragonrider forgot himself enough to nod , and came within a quarter-inch of cutting his own throat . |
| 30 | In August 1982 , panic broke out in banking circles when Mexico came within a hair of default . |