Example sentences of "[to-vb] within a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But you do need the different personalities to come within a group to make a group successful .
2 Critics of the Peacock Committee have been happier to work within a framework of change that is more limited than that envisaged by the Committee .
3 It preferred to work within a party which still had a certain amount of prestige .
4 Lakatos 's emphasis on the conventional element attached to work within a research programme , on the need for scientists to decide to accept its hard core , has much in common with Popper 's position with respect to observation statements , which was discussed in section 2 of the previous chapter .
5 On March 26 the South African Council of Churches issued a call for a national council of " leaders of the affected communities " to meet within a week , arguing that the violence had gone beyond the control of the ANC and Inkatha .
6 Around 90 per cent of people can learn to juggle within a day .
7 For a start , they own that flexible ‘ I ’ ( when I say ‘ I ’ you will want to know within a paragraph or two whether I mean Julian Barnes or someone invented ; a poet can shimmy between the two , getting credit for both deep feeling and objectivity ) .
8 With their broader streets and freshly painted houses they might appear to be so , but , as Engels remarked , those streets were often unpaved and lacked a sewer , the paint was bound to fade within a decade , and their apparent solidity of build would then be revealed as no more than that of bricks laid end to end .
9 Amongst the new appointees was Fiame Naomi , the first woman to serve within a Western Samoan Cabinet .
10 And in order to achieve this end , the spirit has to dwell within a number of different entities .
11 The government is expected to take a decision on whether the plant will be allowed to open within a month or two of the ending of the latest round of public consultations on 4 October .
12 To avoid such an embarrassment the Department of Health is funding academics to come up with ‘ in vitro and in vivo tests ’ which can act as ‘ an early warning system to identify within a year the likely performance of a new material ’ , Allen said .
13 Gomolka was the third Minister President to resign within a year in eastern Germany [ for those in Saxony-Anhalt in July 1991 and Thuringia in February 1992 see pp. 38354 ; 38782 ] .
14 There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to choosing which typeface and style to use within a document but there are guidelines which can reduce any potential conflicts .
15 Nevertheless , weak candidates still get failed , which is always a bitter and embarrassing business , negating the value of several years ' work , often leading to anger within a department , internal enquiries about the quality of supervision , and even threats of legal action from the disappointed candidate .
16 While most reggae DJs rapidly rise in popularity only to sink within a year , Shabba 's following has swelled over the past four years to a point where the reggae market is too small to contain him — witness the shooting and tear gas panic last year at the Brixton Academy , or January 's trashing of Tower Records , London , during a personal appearance .
17 The French government ordered an inquiry team to report within a month , but found that there was no reason to ground other A-320s immediately .
18 The Liberal Democrats are such past masters at riding out scandals that they are remaining calm , simply instructing all cabinet members to report within a week whether they have received any donations from the pachinko industry .
19 This looks like a case of a random example ; for the only problem it could create would be by failing to fall within a category of admissible wordings .
20 There were far more profitable houses to burgle within a stone 's throw of her own modest establishment .
21 It is generally accepted that managers are motivated to pursue profits , whereas they are not greatly motivated to keep within a cost budget .
22 The Indonesians wanted to start within a month , but Douglas-Hamilton and Child urged them to consider delaying it so that the army could do a pilot run and the local people could be better informed about what to expect .
23 It was reported on March 17 that the Uzbek Supreme Soviet Presidium had decided to recall within a month Uzbek servicemen from republics not in the CIS ( the Baltic states and Georgia ) , from CIS member states establishing their own armed forces ( Ukraine , Moldova and Azerbaijan ) and from the Transcaucasus military district and Caspian flotilla .
24 This quasar was already known to lie within a galaxy , and improved observations have shown that the ‘ host ’ galaxy itself is interacting with a small companion galaxy .
25 Each year , Bonfire Night was the highlight of early winter and I was fortunate enough to live within a quarter of a mile of The Greencroft , which became the mecca on November 5th for people from all parts of the City .
26 ‘ Nick , ’ he said at last , ‘ my son is going to die within a year if I do n't do something very drastic .
27 A customer who produced a credit card could take away goods without payment on the implied promise to pay within a month , and if they did ( which the vast majority did ) they would not be charged interest for being lent the amount they would otherwise have had to pay across the counter .
28 ‘ The grant ’ says Strinati , ‘ will enable us to complete within a year or two some important and very urgent restoration programmes ’ .
29 Now having said all this you know let's not identify with these too much like the that 's me you know okay , it gives you an incl an idea of your in of your stance where what sort of attitude philosophy and behaviours you prefer to have within a group , okay and if you match those back to what we saw in the group erm then it 's not surprising that the group got on so well together and you know we did n't have too much conflict with the amount of team workers involved because nobody in there wanted to upset anybody else in the team .
30 This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés .
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