Example sentences of "within a [adj] [noun pl] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | There are three bars within a hundred yards of each other . |
| 4 | He was subsequently ordered by a court not to go within a hundred yards of her . |
| 5 | 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 ! ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was hours before the first students managed to permeate through the streets and come to within a hundred yards of the Mar Girgis . |
| 8 | Others who made it to within a hundred yards of the bridge … count themselves lucky to have survived … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Closely similar creatures called sea pens grow in the sea within a hundred miles of the Flinders Ranges . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Within a few moments of Dr McNab 's saline injections Dr Dunstaple had begun to revive . |
| 15 | Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Within a few hours of becoming queen Anne wrote to the Dutch States-General setting out the basis of her policy . |
| 24 | Its tail will shrink within a few hours of departure . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And within a few hours of taking it , that 's when this happened to me . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
| 30 | And within a few hours of meeting 25-year-old Chris , Heather agreed to spend the rest of her life with him . |