Example sentences of "and [vb past] within a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dragonrider forgot himself enough to nod , and came within a quarter-inch of cutting his own throat . |
| 2 | He was on the point of taking the key fortress of Valencia in the same year , when he fell sick and died within a matter of weeks . |
| 3 | Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other . |
| 4 | He took his father 's death with little show of regret but the mother became ill and died within a year of her husband . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |