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

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1 The shares must be acquired before , or within twelve months after , the company becomes an employee-controlled company .
2 As soon as Ministers know , letters or telegrams will be sent to every Commons Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and a meeting will be summoned within twenty-four hours if the House is sitting or within forty-eight hours during a recess .
3 The balance is due for payment six weeks before departure or within 7 days of the invoice date , whichever is the later .
4 Of relevance here is the rule that a ballot for the Conservative Leadership must take place if the post is vacant , or within twenty-eight days of the beginning of every session , or between three to six months after the opening of every new Parliament .
5 Pregnancy or childbirth where the expected date of birth is before , or within 8 weeks of , the expiry of the period of insurance .
6 No payment should be made where the expected date of birth is before , or within 8 weeks of , the expiry of the period of insurance .
7 The Department of Employment may serve a recoupment notice on the employer within 21 days of the end of the hearing , or within nine days after the decision is sent to the parties ( 21 days if the judgment has been reserved ) .
8 ( 6 ) If no request is made pursuant to para 1 ( a ) above within 15 months of the day on which pleadings are deemed to be closed ( or within nine months after the expiry of any period fixed by the court for making such a request ) , the action shall be automatically struck out .
9 MATERNAL DEATH — death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy , irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy , from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management , but not from accidental or incidental causes .
10 Section 244 provides that this normally has to be done within 10 months after the end of the accounting reference period to which the accounts relate ( if it is a private company ) or within six months ( if it is a public one ) .
11 With not a Thistle player between him and Murdoch or within ten yards of him , he turned and raced through , flanked by three colleagues , to pick his spot .
12 pregnant and expected to give birth before , or within 2 months following , the last day of the booked holiday .
13 August 25 , or within three days after that . ’
14 Hodgkin 's disease , non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma ( other than primary brain lymphoma ) , lymphocytic leukaemia , multiple myeloma , or another cancer of lymphoreticular or histiocytic tissue , or angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy , diagnosed before or within three months after diagnosis of the indicator disease .
15 In the report of Souquet et al , when endosonography was considered normal , no recurrence was observed for the following three months , but a recurrence was usually confirmed immediately or within three months when endosonography indicated infiltration by tumour .
16 Patients were randomised at the time of endoscopy or within 12 hours after fulfilling the inclusion criteria .
17 Estate duty reliefs carried forward to CTT include freedom from tax where an interest in settled property comes to a end during the settlor 's life and the property then reverts to him ( unless , of course , the reverter is by reason of his purchase of the reversionary interest ) ; and an allowance analogous to the old Quick Succession Allowance where within four years there has been more than one chargeable transfer il which the value transferred has been determined by reference to the value of the same settled property in which an interest in possession subsists .
18 All in all , it was still impossible to predict that , within six years of the 1911 national transport stoppage , Wilson 's vision of a joint union-Shipping Federation board would be imposed on the industry and that within nine years it would have been accepted voluntarily by the Federation as the normal and accepted method of conducting business with Wilson and his colleagues .
19 Because of the closing weather , an element of urgency entered our expedition , and my companion started to speed up his pace so dramatically that within five minutes conversation between us was only possible by semaphore .
20 Eyeing her new-found companions sitting at her other side , and who were avid listeners to their conversation , he resumed wryly , ‘ And that within five minutes of you arriving anywhere you had the entire population at your feet , knew their life histories , their problems … ’
21 The irony is that within five years , investigations started with a view to relaying part of the canal route to Kilmacolm as far as Paisley for a new passenger service !
22 One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care .
23 Foster 's reckons that within five years it will brew as much beer in China as in Australia .
24 With some industry experts predicting that within five years more people will be sending and receiving faxes through their PC than with stand-alone fax machines it is no wonder that software developers are examining ways of cashing in on this increasing market .
25 If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught .
26 I remember that within 10 minutes of our first conversation , Christopher asked me how I would feel if we closed down the Birmingham head office — his view was that the way to change the company 's culture was to close the headquarters and start again somewhere else .
27 When Jacques Delors said that within 10 years , 80 per cent of the decisions affecting the industrial economic and commercial matters would be taken in Brussels , Lord Young argued with him and said it would be 50 per cent .
28 The most recent evidence suggests that within 10 years , up to 50% of people with HIV infection will progress to AIDS , and a further 20–30% will have some HIV-related illness , if no treatment against HIV is given ( CDSC June 1989 ) .
29 We believe that within 10 years cancer centres will be offering gene therapy as an effective systemic treatment along with surgery , radiotherapy , and chemotherapy .
30 When we published our reports on country houses at risk ( Tomorrow 's Ruins , Silent Mansions and Endangered Domains ) we found that within two years up to two-thirds of the houses had found new owners or new uses .
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