Example sentences of "[adv prt] within a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what I 'm saying , they need , they need just a little , in fact we do here you could argue , er , I feel that all the elements there are of a turning into something a bit ugly , I think , I think they were very quick to drop those statues down , now I know , I know the fellow who in , who set up the K G B could have been the most popular bloke in the Soviet Union , but nonetheless , er he was down within a day , I hear this morning that Yeltsin 's talking about border changes and quite frankly they 're moving too quick and Gorbachev at least was providing a bit of restraint , and I think it , they want to think in terms of decade . |
| 2 | If you do not have a computer or you are daunted by them ( or your computer breaks down within a week of your arrival in a remote village ) you will obviously have more papers to keep track of . |
| 3 | The problem there was the children climbing the fence and with just having spent five hundred and eighty pounds putting a fence up , spent another fifty four pounds although it 's not in the budget , I accept that , er was er a necessary expenditure which I took a decision on straight away because I did n't want to see our five hundred pound fence being knocked down within a week of being put up . |
| 4 | The fighting was over within a minute and they were able to make their way down to the cells . |
| 5 | She was not disappointed ; if a firebell had gone off within a yard of his ear , he could not have appeared more shaken . |
| 6 | And , if by some misfortune , he or she miscalculates and dares to put on even a tiny amount of excess fat , this is immediately dieted off within a week of it first appearing . |
| 7 | In some traditional communities , even as late as the early 1930s , unmarried girls were married off within a month or so after their first menstruation ; until then , they were kept hidden inside their homes . |
| 8 | A year later , during the unusually hot summer of 1990 , he developed a minor break-out which lavender cleared up within a day or two . |
| 9 | I must explain that I do not like combined heater stats ; in general I find that the heater part packs up within a year , as , regrettably do modern heaters , and I would rather throw away a £5 heater than a £10 plus heater stat . |
| 10 | ‘ It is the sons pent up within a man ’ , |
| 11 | ‘ I mean removing the obvious , stupid ways of doing things which grow up within a business . |
| 12 | TONY White was picked up within a month of the robbery at his Rotherhithe home , on suspicion of handling . |
| 13 | And even if Uncle Alan turns up within a month or two , he can hardly complain . |
| 14 | He 'd come on strong towards the end of his round to pull up within a shot of us . |
| 15 | well I mean you 're right in a way Bob those people who seem to get on within a company some of them are people who seem to be able to say the right words at the right time do n't they ? |
| 16 | The old ways of going on within a discipline may , from time to time , become inadequate ; but finding new ways forward is not totally without direction . |
| 17 | If so the Harrises with their 7 children and several animals could be out within a fortnight . |
| 18 | If the squatters are n't out within a day the police can move in . |
| 19 | In July Beverley Nicolls ' Cry Havoc was published , an incoherent and emotional anti-war tract which predicted that a second world war would break out within a year . |
| 20 | Mr Yenici told the committee in London he had believed he would be in the private hospital at least a month , but was ‘ in and out within a week ’ . |
| 21 | Undoubtedly Sonic 2 will do the business with gameheads — Sega is anticipating selling out within a week of release — but what about the rest of us ? |
| 22 | The annual report is always sent out within a week of the bank 's year end . |
| 23 | These three jobs are carried out within a time dimension . |
| 24 | The results formed a report which was out within a month , and which led to far-reaching changes in our company 's approach to the problem . |
| 25 | They want him in and out within a month at the very outside . |
| 26 | For this exercise , the procedure being examined is that carried out within a section , and the procedure owner is taken to be the person who could authorise changes at this level ( eg by the introduction of pro-formats for day-to-day recording of mileage etc ) , in this case the head of each section . |
| 27 | Getting the ball back within a degree of percentage and be able to get yourself back into position er you 've got to be very careful with that . |
| 28 | He had said he 'd be back within a couple of weeks . |
| 29 | But without the help of clock or compass , the terns will arrive back within a day or two of the same date each year , around 6th May . |
| 30 | They were back within a fortnight . |