Example sentences of "within a [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | police co-operation for the purposes of preventing and combating terrorism , unlawful drug trafficking and other serious forms of international crime , including if necessary certain aspects of customs co-operation , in connection with the organization of a Union-wide system for exchanging information within a European police Office ( Europol ) . |
| 4 | Police cooperation for the purposes of preventing and combating terrorism , unlawful drug trafficking and other serious forms of international crime , including if necessary certain aspects of customs cooperation , in connection with the organisation of a Union-wide system for exchanging information within a European police Office ( Europol ) ( Article K.1 ) |
| 5 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
| 6 | Before raising the anchor , he had punched the rendezvous into the Loran 's computer ; now the radio navigation system gave Golden Girl 's position in relation to the rendezvous to within a hundred metres . |
| 7 | True , Brian Robinson did get over from a maul on the All Black 's line before the worst happened — although the Australian referee , Sandy McNeill , was unfortunately the only individual within a hundred metres who failed to note the touchdown . |
| 8 | Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There are three bars within a hundred yards of each other . |
| 11 | He was subsequently ordered by a court not to go within a hundred yards of her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! ’ |
| 14 | Such currency handsomely repays the effort , especially when , in typical British VFR , you can routinely pin- point your position to within a hundred yards . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The rest was easy and I got to within a hundred yards . |
| 17 | It was hours before the first students managed to permeate through the streets and come to within a hundred yards of the Mar Girgis . |
| 18 | Until they got within a hundred yards , |
| 19 | Others who made it to within a hundred yards of the bridge … count themselves lucky to have survived … |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On the other hand , were every indication to be that there was no chance of the letter ever being posted — for example if the person was a known thief and there was no post-box within a hundred miles — then in this case giving him or her the letter would be regarded as stupid . |
| 22 | Closely similar creatures called sea pens grow in the sea within a hundred miles of the Flinders Ranges . |
| 23 | Within a hundred years , Kepler resolved these by translating the planetary orbits into ellipses with the sun at a focus of each ellipse . |
| 24 | So within a hundred years , man learnt to make recordings of sound with sufficient fidelity to fool the human ear — at least , sounds that did not come from several different points in space at the same time . |
| 25 | Within a hundred years the town had grown westwards and in 1256 Henry III granted land outside the walls for , new planned extension to the borough . |
| 26 | Within a hundred years Islam was " a mighty empire stretched form the Punjab to the Pyrenees and from Samarkand to the Sahara , " In the authority of the Shahs . |
| 27 | Other nomads erupted from the deserts of Arabia in the seventh century ; within a hundred years their armies had reached the shores of the Atlantic and the borders of China but , in fascinating contrast to the Huns and Mongols , the Arabs created a new and enduring civilization and founded a faith which today numbers six hundred million adherents . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Ladner 's ( 1979 ) account of young black girls growing up in US cities in the 1960s , for example , was written against conventional sociological accounts of pathological socialization in the black family , and within a black studies perspective . |
| 30 | 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 . |