Example sentences of "within a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 People who 've never even been within a thousand miles of Koraloona have heard of Mollie Green 's place . ’
2 The Museum considers itself a pioneer in the creation of educational programmes , an important component of a museum 's mission when it is the only major art collection within a thousand miles in almost any direction .
3 This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road .
4 There are three bars within a hundred yards of each other .
5 He was subsequently ordered by a court not to go within a hundred yards of her .
6 He still had I am a Fugitive in mind and he recalled how in that ‘ job ’ ( in itself a revealing word ) ‘ every man and woman within a hundred yards of camera range is acting his head off , figuring that he is a Clark Gable , or a Garbo ! ’
7 The drive snaked across the flank of the hill to a levelled clearing which had once been the site of a mine ; a giant stack still stood within a hundred yards of their door .
8 It was hours before the first students managed to permeate through the streets and come to within a hundred yards of the Mar Girgis .
9 Others who made it to within a hundred yards of the bridge … count themselves lucky to have survived …
10 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 .
11 You attach a transmitter to the jesses and keep the receiver with you — this can pinpoint a bird within a hundred yards over a radius of fifteen miles .
12 Closely similar creatures called sea pens grow in the sea within a hundred miles of the Flinders Ranges .
13 Within a hundred years of the missionaries ' arrival many English men and women had enthusiastically adopted the monasticism which was considered the purest form of the Christian life and the surest way to salvation , and which had spread throughout western Europe in the fifth and sixth centuries .
14 The two fires , within a 100 yards of each other , could have had ‘ catastrophic ’ consequences if they had not been discovered on the ground floors of Dunsyre House , Calder Crescent , and Medwin House , Calder Park , a court heard .
15 At its very inception , the world was hot , but within a billion years of its origin , parts of it at least were at the kinds of temperatures in which complex organic chemistry could take place .
16 Within a few moments of Dr McNab 's saline injections Dr Dunstaple had begun to revive .
17 Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination .
18 On one occasion I lay down for a rest , dozed off for 15 minutes , and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form .
19 You may live within a few metres of many if not most of the plant and animal species ever recorded in Britain , and perhaps a few that are new to science .
20 The missiles would blast out of their launchers , navigate automatically across Europe , and land within a few metres of targets such as airfields , ports , power stations , dams and locks .
21 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 .
22 By definition , the altruistic majority must promote the reproductive success of the selfish the reproductive success of the selfish organism , the mutant , will be far greater than the altruist , and within a few generations of selfish individuals .
23 That is , they fluctuate about a mean with a wavelength small compared with the dimensions of the sample , and the effects of these fluctuations become insignificant within a few wavelengths of the surface .
24 Also in the house were two children , no doubt lucky to be alive , as Mrs Dyer usually despatched her charges within a few hours of receiving them .
25 Within a few hours of becoming queen Anne wrote to the Dutch States-General setting out the basis of her policy .
26 Its tail will shrink within a few hours of departure .
27 The first organisms , which appear within a few hours of the pool forming , are bacteria , as well as tiny single celled plants and animals called algae and protozoa respectively .
28 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 .
29 And within a few hours of taking it , that 's when this happened to me .
30 The process of counting is a proficient one and a sufficient number of results are usually announced within a few hours of the close of the polls to know which party has won the election .
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