in/within the space of
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: before the end of (a stated time) : in (a stated time) or less
They finished in/within the space of an hour.
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The nadir of his start to life in Madrid came only last week, when Mbappé missed two costly penalties in the space of seven days in defeats to Liverpool and Athletic Bilbao.
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Matias Grez, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
But in the space of two games, Forest have now conceded six goals.
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And, crucially, for a large portion of weddings, all of this happens in the space of a single day—or, for some, an entire weekend.
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But what’s so interesting about this book is how the locus of what was cool and the public spaces where new music was being fostered were also shifting around, even within the space of a few blocks.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
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Matias Grez, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
But in the space of two games, Forest have now conceded six goals.
—Paul Taylor, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
And, crucially, for a large portion of weddings, all of this happens in the space of a single day—or, for some, an entire weekend.
—Daisy Jones, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
But what’s so interesting about this book is how the locus of what was cool and the public spaces where new music was being fostered were also shifting around, even within the space of a few blocks.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
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“In/within the space of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%2Fwithin%20the%20space%20of. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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