Example sentences of "[vb past] within a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , Britain hosted within a few weeks of each other the Moscow City Ballet , Moscow Classical Ballet , Moscow Ballet La Classique and the Russian State Ballet . |
| 2 | Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade . |
| 3 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 4 | As she came within a few yards of it , however , a shudder passed down its spine , and it rolled over , showing its face to the sleet . |
| 5 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 6 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |
| 7 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
| 8 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
| 9 | The police arrived within a few minutes . |
| 10 | as if that was n't enough , Patrick Eggle himself telephoned within a few minutes to confer on the requested changes . |
| 11 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
| 12 | The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum . |
| 13 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |
| 14 | It was n't until she got within a few yards of him that he realized it was Maisie . |
| 15 | She passed within a few feet of an arrow slit from which a light showed , but she was too far away to see into the room where the verderers were . |
| 16 | A long-eared owl sat on a low bough overlooking the ride and watched them unblinkingly through his great eyes as they passed within a few paces . |
| 17 | Mr Barker said he had n't insisted that the customer should produce a banker 's card because she lived within a few doors of the shop . |
| 18 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 19 | This is total rubbish , as if the body is to be buried or cremated within a few days after death , no such risk exists . |
| 20 | Mrs Rumney rang within a few days . |
| 21 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 22 | He persuaded her to bring her husband home , where he died within a few weeks . |
| 23 | The Abbot and over half the monks of Battle perished , eight of the thirteen canons of Mitchelham , most of the heads of religious houses , and up to half of the rest of the county 's population died within a few months , although the effects varied from community to community . |
| 24 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
| 25 | When Miss Louisa had a second more severe stroke at the end of August , and Miss Ellen another heart attack , both old ladies died within a few days of each other . |
| 26 | Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other . |
| 27 | When endosonography suggested the persistence of tumour infiltration in these patients , a local recurrence or distant metastases appeared within a few months . |
| 28 | How the serious issues emerged within a few years of the miracle of Heliodorus is the question . |