Example sentences of "within a few [noun pl] of [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | You may live within a few metres of many if not most of the plant and animal species ever recorded in Britain , and perhaps a few that are new to science . |
2 | By definition , the altruistic majority must promote the reproductive success of the selfish the reproductive success of the selfish organism , the mutant , will be far greater than the altruist , and within a few generations of selfish individuals . |
3 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
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 | COLIN Jackson was within a few inches of Olympic disaster last night in his bid for the 110 metres hurdles crown . |
6 | While she was doing this , within a few minutes of each other came Jasper , then Pat and Bert , then Roberta and Faye . |
7 | Within a few minutes of this treatment being given , he was able to button up his coat . |
8 | Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt . |
9 | When things are cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero — minus 273.16°C — strange things happen . |
10 | Thirdly , the semiconducters used as infrared detectors must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero , and they can measure the brightness of only one small patch of sky at a time , rather than ‘ photograph ’ a whole region of sky at once . |
11 | Infrared telescopes must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero to prevent their own heat radiation from swamping the faint signals from space : hence the liquid helium cooling systems which make infrared satellites complex and expensive . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Originally ascribed to the 1660s it now seems highly likely that they date from the 1630s and were made within a few years of each other . |
15 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |
16 | The escalating cost of these tax benefits would be checked within a few years of this policy being implemented . |
17 | Within a few years of this edition Hopkins was firmly established in the canon of English poetry . |
18 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
19 | When Miss Louisa had a second more severe stroke at the end of August , and Miss Ellen another heart attack , both old ladies died within a few days of each other . |
20 | Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other . |
21 | Observations were taken over three weekdays within a few days of each other to cover the period between 8.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. , so that at each datapoint there were 1980 ( 11 hours x 60 minutes x 3 ) observations of activity for each individual . |
22 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
23 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |
24 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
25 | Last year , Britain hosted within a few weeks of each other the Moscow City Ballet , Moscow Classical Ballet , Moscow Ballet La Classique and the Russian State Ballet . |
26 | The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Within a few weeks of this tragedy , on 29 May 1985 , further disaster struck at the European Cup Final between Italy 's Juventus and England 's Liverpool at Brussels ' Heysel Stadium . |
29 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
30 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |