Example sentences of "[conj] within [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has upset Brian is the knowledge that within hours of Joanna disappearing from the leisure centre car park eight days ago , he was being ‘ fingered ’ as someone who could have been responsible for kidnapping her . |
| 2 | She reports that within areas of medium deprivation there can be pockets of extreme deprivation . |
| 3 | They said that within minutes of the Metro landing it burst into flames and burnt like an inferno . |
| 4 | Mr Clinton intoned ominously that within minutes of his speech tonight to a joint session of Congress , the ‘ special interests ’ would be out in force . |
| 5 | What is , however , a matter of concern is that within days of receiving and failing to reply to that letter , on 23 October 1991 , the local authority moved the children from the family friends with whom they had lived since 17 July 1991 and placed them with foster parents . |
| 6 | We stayed in a cottage on the cliffs , overlooking the harbour , and within moments of arrival , my brother Ian and I were at the end of the pier , fishing . |
| 7 | That was the young man 's name , and within minutes of crossing the threshold , he had insisted on being one of the family . |
| 8 | They went in for half-time one up and within minutes of coming out were two up … with top scorer Craig Maskell raising the roof … |
| 9 | Mercer retreated in the face of noisy opposition and within months of his takeover bid was having to justify his own club 's financial record . |
| 10 | The armoury fired his Jacobite imagination and within seconds of arrival , he was refighting the Battle of Prestonpans , marching to Derby , advising General George Murray on tactics and encouraging the troops ; in his mind 's eye , waiting hand and foot upon his hero , Prince Charles Edward Stewart . |
| 11 | Wobbling torch lights sorted out packs and bedding and within seconds of lying down all three men were fast asleep . |
| 12 | to assess the degree of convergence or divergence of input provision between and within classes of education authorities over the period 1975-84 ; |
| 13 | 1 ‘ Choices by schools and within schools of practical and cultural activities appropriate to local manpower and conditions . |
| 14 | The United States Secretary of State James Baker had previously announced that the Japanese contribution had been offered without precondition and would be used for military purposes , but within hours of Kaifu 's pledge the US State Department indicated that it had no objection to such a restriction . |
| 15 | The review of the recording of La Mer is especially interesting for the debate it prompts within Porter himself , who admits to a prejudice against some Karajan performances , not before they start , but within moments of the opening , when it might be felt that — in those days — too much was being made of the music . |
| 16 | The damage was two-fold , for within months of Kiselev 's departure a reactionary took his place . |
| 17 | It took him considerably less than that , for within weeks of the couple parting , Mr Parkes , 27 , took advantage of Miss Dyson 's trip to Spain to return to the home in Northwich they had once shared . |