Example sentences of "[vb past] within a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The merger boom of the 1960s occurred within a general business ethos of ‘ big is beautiful ’ . |
| 2 | In the former study the transition occurred within a homopolymeric AT sequence , while in the second a GpA junction ( of type XS ) was concerned . |
| 3 | Last year , Britain hosted within a few weeks of each other the Moscow City Ballet , Moscow Classical Ballet , Moscow Ballet La Classique and the Russian State Ballet . |
| 4 | After all , the Literary Digest Poll for the 1932 election came within a tiny margin of the actual result . |
| 5 | At one point I was so inordinately shy of girls that I would blush and tremble if one came within a 50-yard radius of me . ’ |
| 6 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 7 | As she came within a few yards of it , however , a shudder passed down its spine , and it rolled over , showing its face to the sleet . |
| 8 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 9 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |
| 10 | Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade . |
| 11 | Proof came within a short time when in November 1983 more than five hundred deaf people from all over the country joined other disabled groups at Westminster in an impressive lobby in support of a Private Member 's Bill , introduced by Robert Wareing MP , which sought to make discrimination against all disabled people illegal . |
| 12 | In 1935–36 Albert came within a single goal of achieving something no Palace player has yet managed — topping the Football League list of goalscorers — for he hit 38 goals and only W.G. Richardson of West Bromwich got 39 . |
| 13 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
| 14 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
| 15 | The police arrived within a few minutes . |
| 16 | as if that was n't enough , Patrick Eggle himself telephoned within a few minutes to confer on the requested changes . |
| 17 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
| 18 | Such a site is Springhead between Rochester and London , where at least seven religious structures existed within a common temenos . |
| 19 | Species that developed within a narrow environment such as the Galapagos Islands are being squeezed out . |
| 20 | The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum . |
| 21 | By this , structuralists ( Miliband and Poulantzas alike ) mean that short-term concessions might be given to , or seized by , interests antithetical to capitalism , but once these interests pushed their demands beyond what was safe for the continuity of the capitalist mode of production and accumulation , then economic crisis would arise to constrain choice and force policy-makers to recognise that they operated within a capitalist world economic system . |
| 22 | He normally operated within a functioning framework of state power and administration which was not his own , at least outside the actual buildings he occupied ( ‘ my home is my castle ’ ) . |
| 23 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |
| 24 | Until they got within a hundred yards , |
| 25 | It was n't until she got within a few yards of him that he realized it was Maisie . |
| 26 | A long-eared owl sat on a low bough overlooking the ride and watched them unblinkingly through his great eyes as they passed within a few paces . |
| 27 | She passed within a few feet of an arrow slit from which a light showed , but she was too far away to see into the room where the verderers were . |
| 28 | I removed the completed bowl at this stage and finished with three coats of Danish oil , the first two applied within a half an hour of each other , the final coat applied the next morning and allowed to dry until the evening . |
| 29 | Mr Barker said he had n't insisted that the customer should produce a banker 's card because she lived within a few doors of the shop . |
| 30 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |