Example sentences of "be within a few [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 Many of these organisations are within a few minutes of the King 's Buildings .
2 Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole .
3 Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt .
4 In b and c , the local times of each point were within a few hours of local noon and so the ClO values may be taken as qualitatively representative of the day maximum , which in run 4 reached 1.1p.p.b.v. at this level .
5 They set off quite cheerily , but when they were within a few miles of the tarmac coast road , the truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch .
6 He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others .
7 The temperature of maximum damping is usually associated with T g , and at low frequencies the value assigned to T g is within a few kelvins of that obtained from the static methods .
8 COLIN Jackson was within a few inches of Olympic disaster last night in his bid for the 110 metres hurdles crown .
9 When she was within a few feet of the ground , the cat leapt from her and rubbed itself against its mistress 's legs .
10 The hiss was clear on MW and LW while the calculator was within a few feet of the set , but not on FM .
11 The second man ducked back around the corner and Maxim backed off crouching and aiming until he was within a few metres of the cross-street .
12 Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination .
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