Example sentences of "come within a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time he had come within a stone of beating the Han . |
| 2 | Nutty realised afterwards that they had come within a hairs-breadth of total disaster . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The summons had come within a week . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At present , the vast majority of people who work for the Scottish Transport Group come within a pension scheme-TOPS . |