Example sentences of "within [art] few [noun pl] [prep] [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 Bottlenose dolphins have a heart rate of 80–90 beats per minute just after ‘ blowing ’ , slowing within a few seconds to 33–45 beats per minute and remaining at that rate until the next blow .
19 However , whereas years of training and practice were usually needed to master the many and complex skills of recombinant DNA technology , the complete beginner can start to perform polymerase chain reaction experiments and generate meaningful results within a few days at most — hence the explosion of activity .
20 His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 .
21 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 .
22 Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other .
23 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 .
24 Father and son had died within a few days of each other …
25 ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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