Example sentences of "[that] within [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … ’ |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 6 | Foster 's reckons that within five years it will brew as much beer in China as in Australia . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Conventional wisdom is that within broad limits , these types of change of use do not need consent , but it is as yet untested : the issue may ultimately be judged by the external effect of the split or amalgamation ( e. g. increase in traffic ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Crudely simplified , majority opinion passed through two well-defined phases in the West : first , it was assumed that war was unthinkable and impossible as a continuation of policy ; later , it was suggested that within certain limits nuclear war might still be winnable , if you were sufficiently prepared . |
| 11 | In the previous chapter , it was noted that some groups of trees employed in turn the same species of pollinating insects , suggesting that within certain constraints these were generalist in their flower-visiting . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | We believe that within 10 years cancer centres will be offering gene therapy as an effective systemic treatment along with surgery , radiotherapy , and chemotherapy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is hoped that within two years Mr Stott will lead a management buy-out of the People , making it independent of the other Mirror titles . |
| 18 | Its mission — and it thinks that within two years it will achieve it — is 10% . |
| 19 | The governments of the two contracting parties recommend to the legislative bodies of the united Germany that within two years they should deal with the questions regarding amendments or additions to the Basic Law as raised in connection with German unification … |
| 20 | It seems clear that the Crown had greater powers of nomination in the more newly established institutions , that within all departments it was more likely to nominate to the most recently created offices , and that it was trying , with some measure of success , to extend its powers . |
| 21 | It can hardly be pure coincidence that within three years of Kinsey 's appearance the limits of permissible sexual explicitness in the arts and entertainment had radically changed and with them the public image of the ideal woman as projected in , above all , films . |
| 22 | It never occurred to me that within three years I should hate the Italians with an unrelenting hatred . |
| 23 | In her case the disease had progressed rapidly with little instances of remission and her condition had deteriorated so much that within three years she was almost permanently confined to a wheelchair . |
| 24 | And it seemed that within three months of going to see her , the bingeing and fasting , and endless weighing myself and despairing at my size , had stopped . |
| 25 | The decree stated that within three months negotiations with other CIS member-states and former Soviet republics would establish co-ordinating mechanisms for the safe use of atomic energy . |
| 26 | ( ii ) the death of a member has left a recognised body with no member able to exercise voting rights in respect of at least one share in the body provided ( a ) that within three months of the death the recognised body has at least one member able to exercise such voting rights , and ( b ) that until proviso ( a ) has been fulfilled either at least one share in the body is beneficially owned by a solicitor or a recognised body or the only personal representative in respect of at least one share in the body is a solicitor or a recognised body . |
| 27 | Approaches were then made to Brian Cubbon , the Permanent Under Secretary at the Home Office responsible for criminal matters , with the result that within three weeks of publication the Home Secretary Willie Whitelaw announced to the House of Commons that because of continued unease about the case and after discussions with the Lord Chief Justice , he had ordered the release of Cooper and McMahon from prison . |
| 28 | First day or Last Day , Rest Day or Resurrection Day , the abiding Christian belief is that within three days the worst that humans could do to a man was transformed by the power of divine love into the greatest news story of history : ‘ Jesus lives ! ’ |
| 29 | For instance , we will invest £30 million to ensure that within 12 months , no child has to use an outside lavatory . |
| 30 | We have found that within those families , the genera that eat fruit have larger brains in proportion to their body size than those that eat leaves . |