Example sentences of "be within a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The Thermai is only 80 metres from the centre of town and both Old Rhodes Town and the nightlife are within a few minutes walk . |
2 | Many of these organisations are within a few minutes of the King 's Buildings . |
3 | Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole . |
4 | People who 've never even been within a thousand miles of Koraloona have heard of Mollie Green 's place . ’ |
5 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
6 | In terms of actual support , I think for me personally it 's been within a gay men 's group . |
7 | Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt . |
8 | Its guidlines state that the bypass would have to be within a hundred yards of the road or the conditions intolerable before the property would be bought , though the Judge Mr Justice Latham said that in his view those guidelines were a shambles . |
9 | Until Tyson gets out of jail , which King is convinced will be within a few months , the promoter is shrewdly banking his hopes for big money on Chavez , the unbeaten WBC super-lightweight champion who is often referred to as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world . |
10 | In b and c , the local times of each point were within a few hours of local noon and so the ClO values may be taken as qualitatively representative of the day maximum , which in run 4 reached 1.1p.p.b.v. at this level . |
11 | They drew down to the back of the hummock which remained an ivy-grown tump until they were within a few paces and could see rough-hewn timber planks behind it . |
12 | They set off quite cheerily , but when they were within a few miles of the tarmac coast road , the truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch . |
13 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
14 | The temperature of maximum damping is usually associated with T g , and at low frequencies the value assigned to T g is within a few kelvins of that obtained from the static methods . |
15 | COLIN Jackson was within a few inches of Olympic disaster last night in his bid for the 110 metres hurdles crown . |
16 | When she was within a few feet of the ground , the cat leapt from her and rubbed itself against its mistress 's legs . |
17 | The hiss was clear on MW and LW while the calculator was within a few feet of the set , but not on FM . |
18 | The second man ducked back around the corner and Maxim backed off crouching and aiming until he was within a few metres of the cross-street . |
19 | Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination . |