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# within

«within» in Mova's school dictionary: **inside a limit, not going past it: «within 20», «within…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

preposition, adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Within means inside a limit, not going past it: «within 20», «within an hour». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/within/#m1)

2) Within means inside a place or group: «within the school grounds». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/within/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

numbers up to a limit, such as 20: «Adding within 20»; a time limit: «within 10 minutes»; phrases: «within reach», «within an hour», «within the rules»

### examples

- Today's lesson: Adding within 20. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/within/#x1)
- Taking away within 10. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/within/#x2)
- All the answers are within 100. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/within/#x3)
- Please return the book within two weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/within/#x4)
- Keep the medicine out of a child's reach, not within it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/within/#x5)
- Stay within the school grounds at lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/within/#x6)
- The pizza will arrive within 30 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/within/#x7)
- We live within walking distance of the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/within/#x8)
- Within the Dun there was disorder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/within/#x9)

### note

Tells that the numbers stay small; carries no operation clue. «within 20» means the numbers are 20 or less.

### In the corpora

- [Parents often make a shortlist of names, and the name must be registered officially within a few weeks of the birth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/17/)
- [A work mood can follow a grown-up home and usually fades within an hour or so.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/14/)
- [A newborn calf stands within about an hour so that it can drink milk and keep up with the herd.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/8/)
- [Peter and Rosemary Grant watched the finches' beaks change within just a few years after a drought.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/8/)
- [A Venus flytrap shuts in a fraction of a second when two trigger hairs inside the trap are touched within about 20 seconds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «within» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/within/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.