Example sentences of "but within [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Bush took over from the 78-year-old Ronald Reagan at the age of 64 but within 11 days the rigours of office had taken their toll . |
| 2 | We were n't exactly holding our breath for the arrival of these Lakewood flat-top guitars , but within five minutes of the boxes being opened , the two of them — and one of them in particular — were drawing noises of appreciation from all present . |
| 3 | They decided to continue , but within five minutes Sustad broke an ice hammer , forcing them to retreat in mockingly perfect weather . |
| 4 | But within five minutes of her putting a foot on the pavement outside the large building she 'd found that she might as well be in a hot and steamy sauna bath . |
| 5 | Shaun Taylor knocked one in just before half-time … but within five minutes of the second half Swindon were in pieces … two more goals from Birmingham and surely that was it … remember the famous line from the world cup … they think it 's all over … |
| 6 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |
| 7 | Some people might go for your head to begin with but within five years you 'll find that you are the most popular person around . |
| 8 | To date approximately 100 GPs only have their practices computerised but within five years many of the remaining 7,900 will undoubtedly follow suit . |
| 9 | The undecided ( Leicestershire and North Derbyshire ) where a majority were early supporters for the strike but within six months about half had returned to work . |
| 10 | All very enterprising , but within six months , with the builders not far advanced into the job , the Helvetian government decided to move to Lucerne . |
| 11 | But within six months she 'd known she had been right , and she had now reached the stage where she thoroughly enjoyed her work . |
| 12 | But within six months John was spotted by a Luton talent scout while playing in a county schools match and moved south to Kenilworth Road . |
| 13 | Dušan withstood the eastern invaders both in 1345 and 1349 , but within thirty years of his death in 1355 most of his empire had been overrun by the Turks and Serbia awaited the coup de grâce , which came in 1389 with the defeat of Prince Lazar at Kosovo Polje . |
| 14 | Henry Smith was in fact Irish , having been born in Dublin on 2 November , 1826 , but within two years his father died and the family moved to England . |
| 15 | As Prof. Mark recalled , ‘ the reviewer said we were out of our minds but within two years people conceded that we were correct . ’ |
| 16 | By March 1918 this figure had dwindled to 78,000 , but within two years the number had more than doubled . |
| 17 | But within two months of the Convention dramatic political events were taking peace politics into the heart of the labour ‘ machine ’ itself . |
| 18 | The brilliant and tuneful overture is full of the joy of life — but within two months of the first performance , Weber died in London at the age of 39 . |
| 19 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
| 20 | ‘ She blamed Freddie and me for what went wrong but within two weeks she 'd died herself ; she had never recovered from the birth . ’ |
| 21 | But within two days the RPR had broken the initial agreement . |
| 22 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 23 | But within two days she was back at school and behaving as if nothing had happened . ’ |
| 24 | They contain the sort of resonant imagery and psychological complexity one associates with the most determined European cinema , but within strong narratives that recall the best Hollywood films . |
| 25 | At the beginning of the decade the Welsh staff had already swollen to 90 , but within eighteen months had reached 130 . |
| 26 | But within 10 minutes Dalton had restored parity with surgical precision from 15 yards . |
| 27 | There were only 9 inhabitants of the hamlet called Porthmeor before the harbour was created , but within 10 years the population had risen to nearly 300 . |
| 28 | The CBOE began with option contracts on only 16 blue chip shares , but within 10 years it and 3 other exchanges offered about 9500 different option contracts on 350 securities ( out of a total of about 6,000 US listed stocks ) . |
| 29 | Somerset won the toss and batted , but within 1¾ hours they were bowled out for 88 — this after 60 had been made for the loss of only one wicket . |
| 30 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |