Example sentences of "[verb] within a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the last few years , physicists have come within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero using a new technique called laser entrapment . |
| 2 | Most of the other stars that are visible to the naked eye lie within a few hundred light-years of us . |
| 3 | We have seen accomplished within a few brief months or years reforms to which we should have assigned , not decades , but generations . |
| 4 | After suitable lengthy training for the sacrifice , these psykers would be consumed within a few scant weeks or months , drained of their spirits till they died . |
| 5 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 6 | Telomere function seems to be fully defined within a few hundred base pairs in ciliates or yeasts and thousands base pairs in vertebrates . |
| 7 | There were three major ones , standing within a few hundred yards of each other . |
| 8 | If she walks within a few hundred yards of this building , she will see young people , whom the Government have deprived of benefit , sleeping rough and begging on the streets because of the total indifference of people such as the hon. Lady and Conservative Members . |