Example sentences of "[coord] within [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.

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1 In various countries and within certain religions the deliberate termination of pregnancy is disallowed , no matter what the circumstances .
2 What was it for ? ’ , and within two minutes the prize-winner will be believing that she knew all about him and had indeed been specially looking forward to meeting him .
3 In response to the children 's far more advanced views on integration the tutorial programme was revised and within two weeks the child was a member of the mainstream school .
4 Within a month a master for the Lower School ( Mr. C. F. Howell ) had been appointed at £130 a year , and within four months the number of permitted boarders was increased from six to eight .
5 While any one group may cultivate two or three different gardens of varying ages at any one time , the nutrient stocks are rapidly depleted and within 3 years the plot is abandoned and secondary forest begins to reestablish .
6 Within 15 miles of Llanwenarth there are some thirty waymarked walks and within 3 miles the mountains of Blorenge , Tyla and Sugarloaf can be approached .
7 One AE almost immediately handed in a form for a telegraphic transfer and within 15 minutes the client 's funds were being transferred to the company 's bank .
8 Small companies still tend to be inhibited by the cost of using such services and within larger firms the knowledge of their benefits still seems to be limited to a small number of individuals and not widely recognised within the company as a resource .
9 If breathing stops , there is no oxygen getting to the brain and within three minutes the brains cells begin to die .
10 Work started immediately , and within three years the scheme was completed .
11 The penicillin injected into Julia 's veins four times a day killed the infection inexorably , and within three days the oxygen tent had been removed and she was sitting up in bed waiting for her meals with real hunger .
12 The gods smile on those they intend to destroy , and within three days the parchment we bought up was carted down to de Macon 's cog and hoisted aboard .
13 A solicitor 's letter was sent and within twenty-four hours the building was listed .
14 President Bush took over from the 78-year-old Ronald Reagan at the age of 64 but within 11 days the rigours of office had taken their toll .
15 By March 1918 this figure had dwindled to 78,000 , but within two years the number had more than doubled .
16 But within two days the RPR had broken the initial agreement .
17 There were only 9 inhabitants of the hamlet called Porthmeor before the harbour was created , but within 10 years the population had risen to nearly 300 .
18 The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter .
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