Example sentences of "[adv] within a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " 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 The process can be unpleasant and dangerous if unsupervised , but with medical , nursing and family help most people can ‘ detox ’ surprisingly easily within a few days at home or , if necessary , in hospital , without untoward symptoms .
5 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 . ’
6 I remember once a large white-tailed mongoose scuttled past within a few feet of us .
7 Yet within a few months of Richard 's returning to school he had moved in with Philip , leaving his own family to do so .
8 Yet within a few months of starting the technique here two men were badly injured in a roof fall .
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