Example sentences of "within a [det] [noun pl] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Over the three days that Forester had been observing , his schedule had been consistent to within a few minutes either way .
2 Within a few years that mill housed a gig mill , four fulling stocks , as well as picking , shearing and press shops .
3 Within a few years other reformers , including Wilberforce and Clarkson , recognised that their belief in virtually automatic improvement in the population and condition of slaves was naïve .
4 Within a few years four species of Plasmodium had been recognized , responsible for clinically distinct variants of malaria .
5 Within a few years some observers even began to sense in his reforms the triumph of capitalism over Communism , in that the USSR seemed to be adopting Western methods .
6 It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ .
7 Within a few years most chemists had adopted the anti-phlogistic theory .
8 Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems .
9 Within a few days each hole is teeming with worms , with a large proportion being on the pebble .
10 Within a few days military delegations from Myanma and Thailand had met and Myanman troops were withdrawn by Dec. 25 .
11 Within a few months many assurances were broken ; there were wistful , unfulfilled hopes of James Edward Stuart landing and asserting himself as King James VII ; and in the House of Lords an attempt by Scottish members to repeal the Act was defeated by only a small majority .
12 Within a few months these hopes were dashed when a majority of the Manchester committee insisted on recognising an American evangelical , the Rev. Fred Hemming , as an official agent to raise money for the anti-Garrisonian abolitionists in America although he only had the general support of Lewis Tappan and apparently regarded the Garrisonians and their British sympathisers as ‘ infidel abolitionists ’ .
13 The government however continued with just one vice-president and within a few months this post was held by Daniel Arap Moi , a non-Kikuyu who , despite being a member of the Legislative Council , had not been prominent in nationalist politics .
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