Example sentences of "within [adj] minutes ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We started house-hunting and found the perfect place on a new rural estate within ten minutes ' drive of the café . |
| 2 | Indeed , an international survey of old people in Britain , Denmark , and the United States in the 1960s found over 40 per cent of them living within ten minutes ' journey of their children in all three countries . |
| 3 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 4 | It has two bedrooms , a kitchen , a bath and inside lavatory , and one living room , and is within five minutes ' walk of the shops . |
| 5 | The National Library of Scotland is within five minutes ' walk , and the Main Library of the University not much further . |
| 6 | However , when the personal thefts were restricted to those which occurred within 15 minutes ' walk of the victim 's home , unemployment was again a statistically significant factor . |
| 7 | He drew the nut grove in the Lamonts ' garden and the surrounding countryside , especially the view over the Weald found within two minutes ' walk from their house . |