Example sentences of "and within a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | These standards vary both between cultures and within a culture over time — part of the sociologist 's ( and the historian 's ) job is to try to find out why . |
2 | Above : MATS Connie M494TW made its debut at Oshkosh and within a day 's flying had taken to loose formation work with her bigger sister . |
3 | Often we would design something specially ; if someone rang and asked if we had a Mexican outfit for a feature on Mexican clothes we 'd say ‘ yes ’ and within a day have a sample made up which fitted in with a Mexican look . ’ |
4 | And within a day there might well be ten men-at-arms bivouacked in the house and the store-rooms . |
5 | Make a X-cut in the top of the stump with a knife , and within a couple of months a series of small cabbages will develop from the cuts . |
6 | Britain won the title , and within a couple of years Fritzi and Rixi had become an internationally celebrated bridge double-act . |
7 | A side table was brought for McKillop and within a couple of minutes he had beside him a cup of tea and a plate with two small cakes upon it . |
8 | One twelve-inch Marathon record achieved a playing-time of more than 16 minutes , spread over two sides ; but customers had to change the soundbox of their record-players to cope with ‘ hill-and-dale ’ grooves , and within a couple of years non-standardization had claimed another victim . |
9 | And within a couple of months , Leopold 's fears on one score were proving justified . |
10 | Miss Honey did just that , and within a couple of weeks she had moved into The Red House , the very place in which she had been brought up and where luckily all the family furniture and pictures were still around . |
11 | And within a couple of hours he was pitched into a trial outing for a place in Liverpool 's opening Premier League match at Nottingham Forest on Sunday . |
12 | I sit and think how I 've struggled to get a home together , and within a couple of minutes it 's all smashed up . |
13 | And within a couple of years districts will have district wide local plan coverage we hope . |
14 | He decided to take a salaried job in a posh West End gallery and within a year had landed the directorship of the Marlborough Gallery 's contemporary art venture , the New London Gallery in Albemarle Street . |
15 | Bell began to experiment , and within a year , on 10 March 1876 , Watson heard the first words ever spoken on the newly invented telephone , ‘ Come here Watson , I want you . |
16 | Clutterbuck Deane died in 1701 and within a year Mary had sold the mill to Thomas Shurmur , in whose family it was to remain for a century . |
17 | At twenty she had become engaged , married on her twenty-first birthday , and within a year had a beautiful baby daughter to dandle on her knee … |
18 | In 1147 he succeeded to the dukedom of Swabia , and within a year he set out to take part in the Second Crusade , under the command of his uncle Conrad III and Louis VII of France . |
19 | The USA exploded its first thermonuclear device in 1952 , and within a year the USSR had done likewise . |
20 | That peace was short-lived however , and within a year , England was once more at war with France . |
21 | He chuckles and says , ‘ a few years ago , I had an interview — it was with GRAMOPHONE , actually — in which I confidently predicted that surely people will stop releasing the Mendelssohn-Bruch coupling , and within a year there were two or three more . |
22 | Churchill investigated German local labour exchanges and within a year proposed to the Cabinet their introduction and that of unemployment insurance and the development of employment opportunities in the countryside . |
23 | May 's report , published in 1979 , failed to satisfy the POA , and within a year prison officers were refusing to admit new prisoners . |
24 | He qualified as a barrister in 1980 and within a year was an attorney-at-law in commercial insurance litigation which he claimed was making him £500,000 a year . |
25 | Isabella entered almost immediately into her husband 's publishing business , and within a year was writing on domestic matters for the EDM and had begun the ‘ four years ’ incessant labour' which she claimed Beeton 's Book of Household Management cost her . |
26 | This puts them at an advantage in terms of trading within the EC , and within a Europe whose centre of gravity is shifting steadily eastwards . |
27 | The three won a place following a regional ‘ cook-off ’ and now face the task of preparing a three-course meal for four within two and a half hours and within a budget of £30 . |
28 | But flower seeds in pretty packets are often displayed in shops alongside sweets , and within a child 's reach . |
29 | Observation of behaviour is no longer enough , for the cognitive processes of transactions between people and within a person are also essential topics for an ethologist 's exploration . |
30 | Chopra sensed the two women were together and within a kilometre of the castle . |