Example sentences of "[conj] within a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Whether within a single topic or within a range of topics , the construction of material aimed to illustrate links between concepts or links between topics is a fascinating but demanding exercise .
2 SIR — With such well-informed media personnel telling us every hour on the hour that Messrs Kinnock , Hattersley , Patten , Mandela , Smith and Gould are ‘ expected ’ to make an announcement after the weekend , or within a day or two , stating that they will do this or that , probably because of this reason , possibly causing this response — is it absolutely necessary for us to have to endure the appearance of the person concerned to tell us what has been drummed into us until our eyes stick out like organ-stops ?
3 Experiments which take weeks are tiresome to arrange , more likely to go wrong , and less fun to do than those which given an answer at once , or within a day or so .
4 Methodologically , the ‘ chronotope ’ — the specific organization of space and time within the work or within a genre — is at the centre of Bakhtin 's tracings of the changes within genres and of the boundaries between them .
5 In all but a few cases , a solution will be provided immediately or within a couple of hours .
6 Such contacts may occur on Work Experience , during Mini-Enterprise , or an industrial visit or within a GCSE project or module .
7 They may have to be read in the open air , in rain and darkness or within a plant under oily , cramped , poorly lit conditions .
8 It will be stowed either in the carrying case or within a plastic container .
9 In order to avoid unnecessary complications , the Principle of Minimal Departure needs to be inscribed within a cognitive theory of comprehension , or within a typology of fictional genres such as the one suggested by Ryan herself in Chapter 2 .
10 If they ca n't be accomplished in about six weeks , set yourself some smaller sub-objectives that you can complete today or within a week , just like on the five-mile run example .
11 Seniority as we have seen has less to do with age per se than promotion either to a higher position or within a grade .
12 On lesser occasions , such as peace-makings within the Zuwaya , or within a section , they were not so formal : people did not say ‘ We Jlulat ’ , or not often .
13 Distinctiveness , albeit within a framework established by the centre , appears to be an unmistakable feature of local policy-making .
14 But it was a book about hierarchy , and that is why it became of interest to Carolingian bishops , as there is evidence that within a decade it did .
15 The facts are that within a decade of the Vienna Congress , nationalism was gathering furious pace .
16 They predict that within a decade such polymer films will be able to store Gigabits of data in a film the size and thickness of a dime .
17 The team said that within a decade winter ozone losses over the northern hemisphere would be double those recorded by the end of the 1980s .
18 Every attack was accompanied by the certain knowledge that within a couple of hours I 'd be under the knife .
19 The 8100 is the more compelling indicator of what might happen to OS/2 2.0 : IBM spent so much money developing both the hardware and a completely new operating environment and set of compilers and utilities for the thing that it had to recoup its investment , come hell or high water , before it could be killed off , despite the fact that within a couple of years , it became clear that what users wanted as a distributed processor was the machine that eventually appeared — fatally too late — as the 9370 .
20 For the reader , however , an art defined as national , made as cohesive and marketable as possible , may be less than convincing as an entity ; it may be that within a survey or an anthology there are just a limited number of interesting and attractive works .
21 Perhaps the most telling aspect of his rule is that within a generation of his death , he was as much the subject of legend as of factual history .
22 The idea behind the comprehensive was the belief that within a school there should be an absence of privilege , there should be social cohesion and social justice .
23 This is that within a structure X Y based on assignment , the surface realization of instances of qualification within X ( however many there may be ) will tend to be such that subordinate items will precede , and within Y such that they follow the item qualified , provided in each case that no further instance of assignment supervenes .
24 Yet , like the Christian cross , the sacral horns were used in a general symbolic way , and it may be that the Labyrinth was , as a whole , dedicated to Poteidan even though individual sanctuaries and shrines within it were dedicated to other deities , in much the same way that within a cathedral there may be chapels dedicated to a variety of Christian saints .
25 In 1928 the Preussen Kasse , the Prussian Office , estimated that within a year almost 75 per cent of the surviving East Prussian estates would be bankrupt .
26 It 's hoped that within a year there 'll be forecasts of when the danger is at its height .
27 Mike Cuming , Senior Instructor , says that within a day or two , you forget that Gary is in a wheelchair .
28 Who 'd have guessed at the start of the season that within a handful of games Oxford United would be looking for a new manager …
29 Who 'd have guessed at the start of the season that within a handful of games Oxford United would be looking for a new manager …
30 The recently announced moratorium on new health promotion clinics has put a temporary brake on applications , but it seems probable that the new regulations from next April will encompass stress clinics , although within a cash limited total .
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