Example sentences of "within a very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has changed little although modernised by a filling station and a caravan park and offers the only opportunity to spend money within a very wide area ; there is also a long-established hotel popular with Victorian mountaineers , a shop and a cafe . |
| 2 | Published three times a year and a thousand copies and distributed to all school 's within a very wide area through the Education Authority . |
| 3 | Restrictions on women within paid employment are further evidenced by the extreme concentration of women within a very narrow range of occupational groups . |
| 4 | Whatever temporary vogue her poetry may have enjoyed following her death , the few historical traces of her life are contained within a very narrow compass . |
| 5 | As a result , it was also decided to run a wire to each of the firemen 's houses which came within a very small radius of the works , and to put a wire between each night watchman and the central depot . |
| 6 | These maps and narratives can , in some cases , show remarkable soil variations within a very small area and give valuable guidance to their practical management . |
| 7 | At the time , Bethnal Green was a relatively compact borough of about 50,000 people concentrated within a very small area ( about 2 square miles ) , with no major roads running through it . |
| 8 | In short what you should aim to create in a dining room is a special atmosphere within a very practical framework , so when you 've provided for the basics you can add to the mood with window treatments , interesting lighting and decorative tricks to make the room as comfortable , as functional and as good looking as you can . |
| 9 | Geography Some consideration should be given , within a very large authority , to spacing out orders geographically . |
| 10 | Those who did object found various means of evasion , and in any case , within a very brief period , the initially reluctant provincial nobility became acclimatized . |
| 11 | The G. C. H. Q. case exemplifies judicial ‘ balancing ’ within a very different context . |
| 12 | And it grows best within a very precise temperature range of 30–31°C . |
| 13 | His mischievous words , however , were to prove within a very few minutes appallingly prescient . |
| 14 | To her surprise , within a very few minutes of passing the broken signpost , she came upon her ‘ pony tree ’ . |
| 15 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 16 | In Mr Coleman 's early career , and even until within a very few years , the veterinary art , so far as regards its application to cattle , sheep , swine , dogs , etc. , was in the lowest state of barbarism and degradation . |
| 17 | If such a system is adopted , it may keep TV viewers happy for a few years , but it will prove a handicap to the growth of information technology and a source of discontent within a very few years . |
| 18 | Within a very few years it succeeded in drastically altering the climate in its own homelands — much to the pain of surviving Liberals , such as Harnack , who saw in the entire regrettable enterprise the swamping of properly respectable theological and historical study by a wave of sheer barbarism , of uncouth and indeed vulgar ‘ enthusiasm ’ . |
| 19 | The railway pushed on to Birmingham , the army of navvies departed , the convulsion subsided , and within a very few years |
| 20 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
| 21 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
| 22 | If I stayed on at Bletchley — which I was reluctant to leave — I should scarcely ever see Leslie before the invasion of France , which we all knew was expected within a very few months . |
| 23 | The whole flat , and the garden , within a very short space of time , was wired for sound and you would come in , perhaps in the middle of the night , and fall flat on your face over and leads and God knows what . |
| 24 | At the age of thirty-four he met and married within a very short space of time a widow who was four years his senior . |
| 25 | Q , W , E , R become C , D , E , F and S , D , F become G , A and B. Slightly awkward to start with but within a very short space of time you perform these operation without looking . |
| 26 | For example whatever the nature of the case be it acute or chronic I would expect to see some signs of improvement indicating a curative response within a very short while . |
| 27 | But then , within a very short while , fantasy reasserted itself and we find Columbus and his fellow travellers telling stories about other islands , as yet unvisited , inhabited by tailed men , cannibals , Amazons . |
| 28 | This is a formidable new agenda to be imposed — and implemented within a very short time-scale — on top of the existing programme . |
| 29 | So dead bodies are hygienically whisked away by undertakers within a very short ti me of the person dying , funerals are conducted in twenty minutes at a busy crematorium with a bizarre queue of other funerals waiting in an approach way , and grieving people are expected to be back at their employment in as short a time as possible . |
| 30 | She remembered another thing too — that the path came out of the wood at the other end within a very short distance of her own house . |