Example sentences of "[conj] within [noun] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The coolies inside the fetid dens immediately began to stretch their stiffened limbs and drag themselves off their sodden mats , knowing that within minutes the cai would be among them flailing heavy staves to rouse the laggards .
2 Taylor , from Birkenhead , Merseyside , struck one prison officer , taking his keys , and within minutes the rioters had erected the first of a labyrinth of barricades and begun systematically destroying the chapel .
3 The crucial power was torn from the hands of the proletariat , and within months the Bolsheviks found themselves on the other side of the barricades .
4 The crew , moving rapidly yet almost soundlessly , carried out the few jobs required to convert the land vehicle to a boat , and within seconds the rigs slid rapidly into the dark water and powered away to swing out their ramps and couple together in twos and threes .
5 But within days the chances are you 'll hear a sick joke about it .
6 I never gave in , but within weeks the networks were buzzing with the news that I was into censorship and as bad as Mary Whitehouse .
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