Example sentences of "[verb] within a [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mortar is applied to such areas as will be tessellated within a few hours , and certainly within the day ( hence giornata , for mortar patches which represent a completed period of work ) . |
| 32 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |
| 33 | Your holiday abroad should follow within a few months while your memory is fresh . |
| 34 | She would drown within a few minutes . |
| 35 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
| 36 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
| 37 | Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd will close parts of three ageing plants in the Tokyo area due to restructuring : plants in eastern Tokyo , Hachioji and Takasaki , both in northwestern Tokyo , will be partly closed within a few years , and construction of a new plant in Shimizu , west of Tokyo , due to open in 1995 , has been postponed , too . |
| 38 | Since eating sugar will give the yeast a burst of growth and therefore precipitate symptoms such as bloating within a few hours , one would expect sufferers from candidiasis to be averse to sugar . |
| 39 | For example , a reaction to a particular food may occur within a few minutes of eating a food , or after a day or two . |
| 40 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |
| 41 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 42 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 45 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 46 | Most of the other stars that are visible to the naked eye lie within a few hundred light-years of us . |
| 47 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 48 | Replacements will be needed within a few weeks . ’ |
| 49 | We have seen accomplished within a few brief months or years reforms to which we should have assigned , not decades , but generations . |
| 50 | The police arrived within a few minutes . |
| 51 | It is worth remembering that most accidents happen within a few miles of home . |
| 52 | as if that was n't enough , Patrick Eggle himself telephoned within a few minutes to confer on the requested changes . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
| 55 | A political truce was called within a few days of the outbreak of war ; a pact to end contested by-elections was first signed on 6 August , and a joint recruiting drive began before the end of the month . |
| 56 | The dog should return within a few minutes , but if not , search in the direction where you last saw your pet . |
| 57 | You need to be able to get into the turn quickly and accurately , and to be flying within a few knots of the pre-stall buffet . |
| 58 | Easily Accessible : There is a large number of footpaths and bridleways in the area , and two long-distance paths , the Oxford Way and the Cotswold Way , pass within a few miles of the hotel . |
| 59 | The gun had landed within a few inches of Blake . |
| 60 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |