Example sentences of "within a few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Within a few minutes of this treatment being given , he was able to button up his coat . |
| 32 | Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt . |
| 33 | Within a few minutes of receiving this the King had written back regretting that lie was unable to alter his decision . |
| 34 | While she was doing this , within a few minutes of each other came Jasper , then Pat and Bert , then Roberta and Faye . |
| 35 | 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 ) . |
| 36 | For example , a reaction to a particular food may occur within a few minutes of eating a food , or after a day or two . |
| 37 | The Chief Constable must have called in the Yard within a few minutes of getting the news . |
| 38 | Within a few minutes of installing the application ( which , incidentally , takes rather less than fifteen minutes , even on a reasonably slow machine ) quit sophisticated logos and graphics of that ilk were appearing onscreen courtesy of some simply presented but powerful facilities . |
| 39 | Within a few minutes of shuddering breaths , hiccups , and desperate sucking sounds , silence fell . |
| 40 | Many of these organisations are within a few minutes of the King 's Buildings . |
| 41 | Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade . |
| 42 | All savour the wonderful position and the advantage of living within a few minutes of the A55 Expressway , with fast journey times in both directions . |
| 43 | Then , instead of shaping at the extreme neck edge , or within a few stitches of a fully fashioned neck shaping , work the cable pattern , with two or so stitches between it and the neck edge and work the neck shaping within the cable pattern and the remaining stocking stitch of the shoulder edge . |
| 44 | When she was within a few feet of the ground , the cat leapt from her and rubbed itself against its mistress 's legs . |
| 45 | The hiss was clear on MW and LW while the calculator was within a few feet of the set , but not on FM . |
| 46 | Robins found that Geiger readings there were halved when taken within a few feet of the ring of stones , as if the ring acted as a form of ‘ shield ’ . |
| 47 | She passed within a few feet of an arrow slit from which a light showed , but she was too far away to see into the room where the verderers were . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | They insisted that neither loyalists nor republicans would have left 200 lb of explosive within a few feet of men and women working contentedly in the bakery kitchen and suggested that it was more like the work of outside agents , acting under strict and impersonal orders . |
| 50 | All cabinet council meetings took place in the west wing of the White House within a few feet of the Oval Office . |
| 51 | In the latest example of this phenomenon , high on the massive granite sweep of South Ridge on Arran 's Cir Mhor , a pristine copy of Howett 's Constable compendium decided to play truant — and landed , incredibly , within a few feet of my rucksack below , leaving us to puzzle out the route unaided . |
| 52 | A returning female alights within a few feet of where she last left her baby . |
| 53 | Beyond the apple trees and within a few feet of the river is a large raised platform , visible in winter before its annual submergence in weeds , part of a vanished building , and there are clear lines of stone walls adjoining it . |
| 54 | There was a movement in the undergrowth and a rabbit bobbed out into the clearing , settling to feed within a few feet of where he stood . |
| 55 | I remember once a large white-tailed mongoose scuttled past within a few feet of us . |
| 56 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | You need to be able to get into the turn quickly and accurately , and to be flying within a few knots of the pre-stall buffet . |
| 59 | When things are cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero — minus 273.16°C — strange things happen . |
| 60 | 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 . |