Example sentences of "within a few [noun pl] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion I lay down for a rest , dozed off for 15 minutes , and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form . |
| 2 | Because people had seen the recorder being switched off , they ignored the microphones , leaving them within a few inches of their mouths , thus enabling us to record conversation of superb acoustic quality . |
| 3 | The Ministers and the Court dignitaries were on the platform to make their farewells , which the Emperor had insisted be short and restrained , so that within a few minutes of his arrival he and his son were on board and the train left to cries of ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ |
| 4 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 5 | In the latest example of this phenomenon , high on the massive granite sweep of South Ridge on Arran 's Cir Mhor , a pristine copy of Howett 's Constable compendium decided to play truant — and landed , incredibly , within a few feet of my rucksack below , leaving us to puzzle out the route unaided . |
| 6 | I remember once a large white-tailed mongoose scuttled past within a few feet of us . |
| 7 | It was n't until she got within a few yards of him that he realized it was Maisie . |
| 8 | Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole . |
| 9 | As well as the noise the couple would have to put up with a landfill site within a few yards of their garden . |
| 10 | His move towards contracting led to his being awarded the contract for the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway in 1855 , reaching his home village a year later and passing within a few yards of his first contract , the iron bridge . |
| 11 | Leading to within a few yards of it was a public right-of-way . |
| 12 | As she came within a few yards of it , however , a shudder passed down its spine , and it rolled over , showing its face to the sleet . |
| 13 | Generally , the operational data ( that is the policy records ) were destroyed within a few years of their fulfilment . |
| 14 | The V&A , we are told , set aside 50 per cent of its objects are required within a few years of their manufacture . |
| 15 | That element had been a twentieth-century discovery and , within a few years of its first refinement , had been used in new and more powerful weapons of destruction . |
| 16 | There was a genuine dilemma and conservatives like Spurgeon could , if they had wanted , cite a famous precedent : St Francis of Assisi never disguised his hostility towards learning yet , within a few years of his death , his new Order was dominating much of Europe 's University life . |
| 17 | Within a few days of its unveiling Achilles was modestly kitted out with a fig leaf . |
| 18 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 19 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
| 20 | The money will be deducted from your current account within a few days of your purchase — just like a cheque , but so much easier . |
| 21 | I do n't know when the first visit was , but it must have been very recent , possibly within a few days of your , er , release . ’ |
| 22 | When it came to within a few days of my scheduled departure date , I said to Michael , ‘ I suppose it 's too late now . ’ |
| 23 | Within a few days of his election , Barbarossa was crowned on the 9th March 1152 . |
| 24 | Justification for Scott 's impressive display in the House of Commons became apparent within a few days of his drawings being hung . |
| 25 | Within a few days of his election he already knew that the way to realize this ‘ new Pentecost ’ was an Ecumenical Council . |
| 26 | So within a few days of his grudging acceptance by his parliamentary colleagues , Law 's leadership was ratified by the throng of party notables at Leeds ; here he received a reception more typical of what was to come in the future . |
| 27 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 28 | Within a few days of his visit you receive details of two sous-chefs , both well versed in haute cuisine , both having trained with chefs of international repute , and both now ready to manage their own kitchen . |
| 29 | Within a few weeks of their meeting , England was at war . |
| 30 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |