Everything had happened within a space of less than five minutes.

Five close friends died within the space of six years.

The whole thing took place within the space of minutes.

Or would be within the space of the next hour.

Within the space of a week, I had lost the two most important people in my life.

But it had come and gone within the space of 60-odd years.

It had all happened within the space of three or four minutes.

Now, within the space of a few days, all that had been taken from him.

It is their third meeting, the first two having taken place within the space of five months in 1980.

Within a space of a few years, the population dropped from a billion to 100 million.