Example sentences of "die within a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born and dying within a decade of each other , both lacked formal university or professional training , both rejected Christian dogma but felt lost without it , both carved out careers for which there were few models , and both preferred to work with men , refusing to acknowledge the personal benefits gained from the feminist struggle . |
| 2 | Many affected trees have been dying within a year of the condition being detected . |
| 3 | Recent German statistics show that 30 per cent of retired people who have nothing that interests them , die within a year of retirement , regardless of the age at which they retired . |
| 4 | ‘ We did not complete it because we would probably have faded out and died within a week . |
| 5 | The patient will die within a dew days unless either a special machine is used to clean the blood or he/she has a kidney transplant . |
| 6 | Percifull died in nine days in November 1733 and Dr John Martyn 's twins , John and Eulalia , died within a year of their baptism in 1737 , there appear to have been no such tragedies in the Miller family and we may suppose these were their only three children . |
| 7 | Another friend of mine , a man who spent most of his adult life looking after his elderly parents until they both died within a year of each other , came home from work one evening and suddenly realised that he could go to the cinema and have a meal out without worrying about anyone else . |
| 8 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 9 | Whilst most of these patients died within a year , 9 achieved tumour regression for at least 12 months ( range 1–5 years ) after two to four courses of I-MIBG . |
| 10 | He took his father 's death with little show of regret but the mother became ill and died within a year of her husband . ’ |
| 11 | The Ahrens ' 40 ducklings also died within a fortnight . |
| 12 | He was on the point of taking the key fortress of Valencia in the same year , when he fell sick and died within a matter of weeks . |
| 13 | Remorse over this made him fall ill , and he died within a matter of months to be succeeded in his office by his son Henri ( 1767–1840 ) . |
| 14 | In a churchyard at Bilston in Staffordshire stands a memorial to a mother and her two infant children , who all died within a period of three weeks in the winter of 1847 ; they are described as ‘ all victims to the neglect of sanitary regulations specially referred to in a recent lecture on Health in this town . ’ |
| 15 | Malcolm 's oldest son ( by his first wife ) , Duncan , had lived in England probably for twenty years , and was associated with Anglo-Norman culture ; there was almost certainly a reaction also against Margaret ( who died within a week ) , her sons , whom Donald exiled , and English immigrants . |
| 16 | A brother and sister , for instance , died within a month of each other in 1861 — one of them 16 , the other 18 . |
| 17 | ‘ Nick , ’ he said at last , ‘ my son is going to die within a year if I do n't do something very drastic . |