Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] within a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They warn that the number of lakes affected may double within a few decades unless air pollution in Europe is halved . |
| 2 | I am not , of course , denying that societies may exist within a specific set of habits and ways of life , which may be transformed by , among other things , excessive immigration . |
| 3 | This is what Crane Holdings should do within a few months . |
| 4 | Your holiday abroad should follow within a few months while your memory is fresh . |
| 5 | Although the prime responsibility for rural housing provision has rested with the rural district councils ( district councils since 1974 ) , they must work within a strategic planning framework laid down by county council planning authorities . |
| 6 | The dog should return within a few minutes , but if not , search in the direction where you last saw your pet . |
| 7 | Clerk to the justices Robert Whitehouse said the £400 screens should arrive within a few weeks . |
| 8 | Secondly , and of equal importance , is the fact that the courts possess creative choice as to the general intensity of review which should operate within a particular area . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't worry , it 'll decay within a few days . ’ |
| 10 | If the sub-field is tightly circumscribed , and localised geographically , then the bulk of citations may occur within a limited set of co-citing core journals . |
| 11 | For example , a reaction to a particular food may occur within a few minutes of eating a food , or after a day or two . |
| 12 | In old age several major losses may occur within a short space of time . |
| 13 | The churches were usually brick built , and even when their walls did not crack and warp under the impact of the process , there remains , according to Romanian architects , the threat that their very bricks could crumble within a few years . |
| 14 | Conceivably the entire lake could die within a few years . |
| 15 | Most fatalities from T. canis infection occur during the pulmonary phase , and pups which have been heavily infected transplacentally may die within a few days of birth . |
| 16 | ASTRONOMERS were startled , and laymen amazed , when in 1979 Jack Eddy , of the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder , Colorado , claimed that the Sun was shrinking , at such rate that , if the decline did not reverse , our local star would disappear within a hundred thousand years . |
| 17 | She would drown within a few minutes . |
| 18 | But certain exemptions would apply within a select and small number of zones . |
| 19 | He also said that " we are going to show how a revolution can be enacted through democratic principles , how democracy can be practised with one party " and announced that the National Assembly would reassemble within a few months in order to approve an electoral law which would lead to the holding of direct legislative elections in 1993 . |
| 20 | You may live within a few metres of many if not most of the plant and animal species ever recorded in Britain , and perhaps a few that are new to science . |
| 21 | The administrative civil servant may operate within a legal culture with a concern for following regulations and statutes . |
| 22 | At the latest within three years from the start of the second phase , the Commission and the Council of the monetary institution would report … on the functioning of the second phase and in particular on the progress made in real convergence , in order to prepare the decision concerning the passage to the third phase , which will occur within a reasonable time … |
| 23 | Almost all of them will die within a few weeks of being shed . |
| 24 | It 's probably best not to feed your fish for the first day or so as they settle in ( though some fish will feed within a few minutes of being stocked ) . |
| 25 | Its tail will shrink within a few hours of departure . |
| 26 | This sort of reading is only for the dedicated follower of the history of taste , though any reader particularly interested in a picture may find within a single catalogue entry an acutely discriminating judgement or interesting facts ; for example , Tietze 's entry also points out that Manet so much admired the Tintoretto self-portrait that he made a copy of it . |
| 27 | In a similar line of argument , Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 14 August 1898 ) viewed the Hooligan panic as an indictment of the hypocrisy of a civilisation that took ‘ so painful an interest about moral handkerchiefs and hymn books for the barbarians of the wild Soudan ’ while turning a blind eye towards ‘ the far wilder barbarians they may find within a few paces from their own street-doors ’ . |
| 28 | Since these variations can occur within a single species , and even within a single individual , it is clear that good samples are necessary before attempting to distinguish patterns . |
| 29 | The water-soluble vitamins , however , are not usually stored in the body in any great amount , so deficiency can develop within a few weeks or months if the diet is poor . |
| 30 | A customer walking into a Barclays branch can leave within a few minutes having bought or sold such shares as he wants . |