Example sentences of "come within a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you do need the different personalities to come within a group to make a group successful . |
| 2 | This time he had come within a stone of beating the Han . |
| 3 | Nutty realised afterwards that they had come within a hairs-breadth of total disaster . |
| 4 | With the musical fare so poor — only the opening salvo of the title track and ‘ Wild Hearted Son ’ come within a coyote 's howl of the last brace of albums — the focus drifts inevitably towards what Astbury is singing about … with comic results . |
| 5 | The summons had come within a week . |
| 6 | Lotus had another go at four-wheel drive the following year , this time with gas turbine power The dramatically wedged-shaped 56B was a development of the car that had come within a whisker of tinning the 1968 Indy 500 . |
| 7 | At present , the vast majority of people who work for the Scottish Transport Group come within a pension scheme-TOPS . |
| 8 | No magician capable of such enchantments ever came within a mile of Morpork docks . |
| 9 | The South Wales Cricket Association XI came within a raindrop of becoming the first British team to meet South Africa during their tour of Australia and New Zealand . |
| 10 | THERE are only six Leicester Riders left in the saddle , but yesterday they came within a basket of carrying off the weekend 's biggest surprise . |
| 11 | Hoch , in fact , came within a couple of inches of adding £10,000 to his haul on the par-3 17th . |
| 12 | I 'd like to think the Power was working then , but I suspect it was coincidence ; high performance jets crash so often it was no real surprise my symbolic and their real destruction came within a fortnight of each other . |
| 13 | He 'd wanted to escort her home but she had threatened to commit arson if he came within a quarter of a mile of the theatre . |
| 14 | The dragonrider forgot himself enough to nod , and came within a quarter-inch of cutting his own throat . |
| 15 | Trafalgar came within a hair 's breadth of being the first company to be taken to court by the Financial Reporting Review Panel last year ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 10 ) . |
| 16 | As Lisa pulled the door open Josey stepped out into the night … and literally came within a hair 's breadth of walking straight into the tall dark figure who was striding up the path . |
| 17 | In August 1982 , panic broke out in banking circles when Mexico came within a hair of default . |
| 18 | As she came within a block of Marlin 's building she remembered something she 'd utterly put out of her head for that six-year span . |
| 19 | This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week . |
| 20 | They came within a week of the leaking of a US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) document , compiled by an agent in Panama investigating a cocaine-smuggling operation , which named more than 20 companies registered by President Endara 's law firm . |
| 21 | NORWICH and Peterborough Pirates came within a point of booking a place in the Heineken Championship semi-finals at Wembley when drawing 6–6 with the Seahawks last night at Humberside . |
| 22 | Bobby Robson was pilloried in exactly the same fashion then promptly hailed as a conquering hero when his team came within a penalty shoot-out of reaching the World Cup final in 1990 . |
| 23 | Ford came within a whisker of pulling off one of motorsport 's biggest upsets in January when the seven-speed Sierra Cosworth 4x4 of Francois Delecour and Ann Chantal Pauwels almost won the Monte Carlo Rally . |
| 24 | ‘ We know a travel agent who came within a whisker of losing his job , all for innocently caressing a colleague 's bum while she was closing a sale on a two-week package to Alicante on the phone . ’ |
| 25 | It was Dyble who broke the deadlock with a penalty in the first minute and centre Kelly Wagland came within a whisker of scoring an early try when stopped inches short of the line . |
| 26 | Chesterfield came within a whisker of shocking Liverpool in this amazing Coca Cola Cup-tie . |
| 27 | History will also record that Europe also shared the second series of Fourballs but only after the Americans came within a whisker of obliterating their lead altogether . |
| 28 | This provoked Rangers into vicious retaliation and in quick succession Dave McPherson , John Morrow — back in the form which earned him a Northern Ireland call-up two years ago — and Ferguson all came within a whisker of the equaliser . |
| 29 | Coming within a day of the Exxon Valdez oil disaster in Alaska , and with the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl still fresh in people 's minds , the sudden possibility of cheap , abundant , and pollution free energy captured everyone 's attention . |
| 30 | The adverts come within a year of the Government admitting the existence of MI5 and named its head , Mrs Stella Rimington . |