How to Use in/within the space of in a Sentence

in/within the space of

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  • The boat fills and submerges in the space of one constant hour [and] the sailor plays the pipe . . .
    National Geographic, 30 July 2020
  • Please, don’t leave them hanging in the space of the unknown.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Their deaths, which took place in the space of a year and a half, were a shock and a warning.
    Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, Kristin Van Ogtrop, Health.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • And that all happens in the space of, like, five seconds.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
  • This was the third recall announced by Trader Joe’s in the space of a week.
    Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 29 July 2023
  • Tellingly, Biden has now tried to have this issue both ways in the space of six months.
    The Editors, National Review, 19 June 2024
  • Tesla has now added $100 billion in market cap in the space of the past two days.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 3 July 2024
  • That figure has fallen to 13% in the space of five years, Gopinath pointed out in her speech for the IMF.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 12 Dec. 2023
  • There are still limits to what Strange New Worlds can do within the space of so few episodes.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2023
  • For all of these artists to be releasing music in the space of a year, and for most of it to be so good, that’s rare.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 11 July 2024
  • And in the space of those four walls was my wife and my brother, my kids and my friends, all on rotation.
    Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2023
  • And in the space of about five seconds and in a distance of about five yards her whole self began to slide sideways.
    Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The music veers from R&B to pop to prog-rock in the space of four minutes as the song’s tone becomes more serious.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
  • Within the space of a few hours, customers come in from Brazil, Belgium, Canada and France.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
  • An eclectic bunch of petite blooms evokes the feeling of an English garden—all in the space of a few feet.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 16 June 2023
  • These brainchildren live in the space of abstract ideas, not in real space.
    Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2021
  • John Textor acquired four soccer clubs in four countries in the space of two years.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The poems include bloody dramas, familial and cosmic, set in the space of the kitchen.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • For me, the most powerful position to be in is in the space of mutual need.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The entire groundwork for Morris’ course shifts even just in the space of one semester.
    Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 17 May 2023
  • His team at least got the better of its rival from Yorkshire when meeting for a second time in the space of four days.
    James Robson, ajc, 12 Feb. 2023
  • In Florence today, the Museo degli Innocenti stands in the space of the city’s former foundling home.
    Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
  • The characters live on the page rather than in the space of the action; the actors shrink to the confines of the frame rather than expanding to inhabit the world.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 June 2024
  • Instead, the league should start Round One a week later and play all three games (if necessary) in the space of two weekends.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The minister said nine fires had been set in the space of four hours Thursday morning in the area of Avlona, in the northern foothills of Mount Parnitha.
    Time, 24 Aug. 2023
  • One staffer says they were laid off right before the Gap deal was announced, only to be offered their job back five times in the space of a few weeks.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Two major championships seemingly his for the asking in the space of a month.
    Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • But in the space of about 10 minutes, all their efforts crumbled during a 3-0 defeat.
    Steven Goff, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
  • Which is not to say that generations’ worth of psychic wounds are healed in the space of 10 episodes of television.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 27 June 2024
  • And then in the space of about 45 seconds, the deputies took a series of actions that left Massey lying in a pool of blood on her kitchen floor and led to murder charges against one of the deputies, Sean Grayson.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 24 July 2024

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