Example sentences of "[prep] within [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These decelerations look reasonably realistic to me , and consistent stopping positions are obtained to within a few cms . |
| 2 | It appeared to have a road running to within a few kilometres . |
| 3 | This ambiguity does not greatly alter our conclusions regarding airburst altitude : once an object has spread to , say , twice its initial radius , its further spreading happens so quickly that an ‘ explosion altitude ’ is defined to within a few kilometres , regardless of whether the explosion is taken to occur then or when the object has spread to 5–10 times its initial radius . |
| 4 | On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites . |
| 5 | Over the three days that Forester had been observing , his schedule had been consistent to within a few minutes either way . |
| 6 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |
| 7 | With five horizontal and vertical fan bladed thrusters , it is capable of turning completely on its axis of moving helicopter-like in any direction to within a few centimetres of where it is directed . |
| 8 | Signals from orbiting satellites forming the Global Positioning System ( GPS ) can be used to pinpoint the location of objects on the surface of the Earth to within a few centimetres ; a computer mapping system carried within a car ( and receiving the car 's position from GPS ) could , given suitable software , be capable of displaying a map showing the car 's location and suggesting alternative routes , such as the shortest , fastest , most economical or most scenic route . |
| 9 | It hissed and moved its head to within a few centimetres of the android . |
| 10 | During a match against Parr 's XI Felix was fielding at point for Sampson 's batting and he persisted in approaching to within a few feet of the batsman . |
| 11 | I have , on more than one occasion , managed to entice a badger to within a few feet , simply by scratching my head , the inquisitive animals searching for this new ‘ badger ’ grooming in the shadows . |
| 12 | Using his binoculars , he watched the ball roll to within a few feet of the bunker into which he himself had dived that day when he had played with Richie , Dr. Stevie and Sir Bryan . |
| 13 | They require fairly rich soil , and , after planting , all the branches will be cut back to within a few inches of ground level to encourage them to produce more branches for berry production next year . |
| 14 | When it came to within a few days of my scheduled departure date , I said to Michael , ‘ I suppose it 's too late now . ’ |
| 15 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
| 16 | Leading to within a few yards of it was a public right-of-way . |
| 17 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
| 18 | Only when she was on the other side of the car could she gain a clear view of Maurice and only then by closing to within a few yards . |
| 19 | The abundance of records enabled Hipparchus to use the properties of similar triangles and sine tables to calculate the diameter of the Earth and the distance of the Moon with amazing accuracy , to within a few miles of today 's agreed figures . |
| 20 | At dawn they were well hidden in a cave and the following night they were able to march to within a few miles of the beach where they were to be picked up . |
| 21 | When things are cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero — minus 273.16°C — strange things happen . |
| 22 | Thirdly , the semiconducters used as infrared detectors must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero , and they can measure the brightness of only one small patch of sky at a time , rather than ‘ photograph ’ a whole region of sky at once . |
| 23 | Infrared telescopes must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero to prevent their own heat radiation from swamping the faint signals from space : hence the liquid helium cooling systems which make infrared satellites complex and expensive . |
| 24 | Excluding the cold tundra , deserts range from 50 degrees North in Central Asia to within a few degrees of the equator in South America , with the result that temperature conditions vary considerably . |