Example sentences of "within [art] [det] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The men followed them and within a few moments lord Hulton and I were standing there just as before watching the tiny figures on the skyline , listening to the distant " Haow , haow ! "
2 Within a few hours drive of Gwent , for instance , lie some fascinating areas — the Forest of Dean , formerly a major coal-producing area ; Snowdonia , where the evidence of centuries of quarrying and mineral extraction is heaped everywhere ; Pembrokeshire , where pretty fishing villages once exported coal , and Cornwall where mining was once a much bigger earner than cream teas .
3 At the weekends he can be anywhere within a few hours drive doing the job of a ‘ Sapper ’ the army 's word for a Military Engineer .
4 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 .
5 There is no evening meal , but there are restaurants and pubs within a few minutes walk including the Royal Hotel , an old coaching house , with an elegant dining room equipped with pianist , and also the Snooty Fox , a charming pub with attractive beamed ceilings .
6 There 's a cosy hotel bar and although there 's no restaurant in the hotel , there are many good establishments within a few minutes walk .
7 Although there 's no restaurant in the hotel , there are plenty of good establishments within a few minutes walk .
8 As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’
9 Within a few months business looked good , so well had the way been prepared for the success of our own Community Station .
10 In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace .
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