Example sentences of "within a few [noun pl] of [det] " 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 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
| 3 | While she was doing this , within a few minutes of each other came Jasper , then Pat and Bert , then Roberta and Faye . |
| 4 | Within a few minutes of this treatment being given , he was able to button up his coat . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The escalating cost of these tax benefits would be checked within a few years of this policy being implemented . |
| 10 | Within a few years of this edition Hopkins was firmly established in the canon of English poetry . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 15 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
| 23 | Room temperature fusion has been discovered independently and simultaneously by two groups in Utah working within a few miles of each other . |
| 24 | Police in north Oxfordshire believe the same thieves may have been behind two separate raids within a few miles of each other at Steeple Aston ; both raids were part of a spate of break-ins reported to police in the Fox F M area . |