Example sentences of "come within a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the last few years , physicists have come within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero using a new technique called laser entrapment . |
| 2 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 3 | As she came within a few yards of it , however , a shudder passed down its spine , and it rolled over , showing its face to the sleet . |
| 4 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 5 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |
| 6 | Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade . |