Example sentences of "within [art] [adj] [noun pl] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore , within the Great Powers the contest coincided with the process of incorporating wider and wider sections of the population in the nation .
2 It simply is not true that ‘ within the Western countries the press has become more powerful than the legislative power , the executive and the judiciary ’ .
3 Even within the positive results the details are often inconsistent .
4 Within the residential areas the habitat function must be improved without reducing the accessibility of destinations .
5 Within a hundred years the town had grown westwards and in 1256 Henry III granted land outside the walls for , new planned extension to the borough .
6 Nor was its misfortune unique , for Norwich , the capital of East Anglia , returned a moderate 40 per cent under £2 , far less than the adjoining countryside , yet within a dozen years the worsted manufacture commenced a decline that was to contribute largely to the total of more than 500 unemployed males , and altogether upwards of 2,500 destitute persons by 1570 .
7 The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began !
8 But within a few hours the mood changed and what Docherty now describes as ‘ unforeseen forces ’ began to operate .
9 Led by Lt Fusata Iida they flew in at a height of 50ft and within a few minutes the airfield was a smoking mess .
10 Within a few minutes the basket was more than half full of food , and Mary was pouring the soup into the thermos .
11 Unless the heart starts beating again within a few minutes the person will die , and in fifty per cent of all fatal heart attacks the victim dies within thirty minutes .
12 Within a few minutes the picture was effervescing as part of it had been painted on gesso .
13 Within a few minutes the atmosphere in the bay was normal , and Ace was jetting towards the shuttle 's cabin door .
14 Within a few years the movies had added a significant number of other social groups to its audience .
15 Within a few years the William Tyndale School returned to normal , and it is now a popular and flourishing institution .
16 But within a few years the Americans were using new machines , a fraction of the size , that an unskilled woman could operate for a fraction of the pay , and upon which she could spin as many stockings an hour as the Black Beauty — and without seams .
17 But , as Action on Smoking and Health predicted that within a few years the majority of companies will have smoking policies , Roger Stubbs , deputy managing director of MORI , warned a confrontation is looming between ‘ green consumers ’ and ‘ smoking civil libertarians ’ who insist aggressively on their right to smoke in public places or at work .
18 Within a few years the organisation was divided by decision of Annual Conference into seven districts , each covering between two and seven branches and each electing one representative to the Executive , except London , which was given two .
19 As soon as this is big enough to cling to , the speed of construction accelerates and within a few days the wall has become a semicircular cup of creamy white interlacing strings that is just big enough to hold the customary clutch of two eggs .
20 Within a few days the whispers had become a roar — South Africa for the 1995 World Cup .
21 There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background .
22 Within a few days the oil slick , first reported on Jan. 24 , had grown to measure 55 km long by 15 km wide .
23 Within a few paces the loom of the Tower was lost and the glint of light from the arrow-slit disappeared behind the curtains of rain .
24 Within a few weeks the Minister Mrs Hedy d'Ancona , who is on record as saying that some of the works are in such poor condition that they can not be given away without loss of face , will come forward with a number of proposals .
25 And sure enough , within a few weeks the inches disappeared .
26 Within a few weeks the disease had spread rapidly amongst the poorer people of Funchal , especially among the families of the boatmen .
27 Within a few weeks the office is flooded out with envelopes stuffed with cash .
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