Example sentences of "have [verb] within a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a neutral event has occurred within a certain time of an already important event , if it was of a certain category and if another of the same category had not been interposed between it and the important event , then that event itself acquires significance for the animal . |
| 2 | The peasant is also vulnerable in the market for he has to operate within a new system of values , one that emphasises competition , astuteness and individuality . |
| 3 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 4 | ( b ) The request by the consumer must have occurred within a reasonable time of the occurrence of the damage ( s. 2(3) ( b ) ) . |
| 5 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 6 | ( d ) The supplier must have failed within a reasonable time of the request , to comply with it or to identify the person who supplied him with the product ( s. 2(3) ( c ) ) . |
| 7 | The therapist realized that some changes in the couples ' situation would have to occur within a few days if another crisis were to be avoided . |
| 8 | The Finance Act 1969 provided , in effect , that on the death of a beneficiary what in 1974 became capital transfer tax , and by the Finance Act 1986 inheritance tax , should be payable upon the proportion of the capital which corresponded to the proportion of the income which the deceased had received within a certain period before his death ( usually seven years ) . |
| 9 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 10 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 11 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 12 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 13 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |
| 14 | The gun had landed within a few inches of Blake . |
| 15 | Within the last few years , physicists have come within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero using a new technique called laser entrapment . |
| 16 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |
| 17 | Pool pairs of cells that have divided within a chosen time interval and culture until they attain the appropriate age . |