I find extracts from novels can be frustrating to read, so here is a fairly self-contained story-within-a-story, taken from Jude in London.

Seemed like a fairly self-contained statement.

Each division controls the operations of a fairly self-contained part of the organization's activities (for example, a particular product line, or a geographical area).

It is a fairly self-contained tale, but the author is at work on more volumes set in this world.

The presence of profoundly deaf children - even though by that stage provided for in their own fairly self-contained class - was held responsible to a considerable degree.

Each book has a fairly self-contained story, although they are still chronological and connected.

The boatyard was fairly self-contained, using timber which was grown locally and was sawn by hand at the yard.

Everything is fairly self-contained.

With fairly extensive workshop facilities, it was a fairly self-contained.

From late Victorian times the village was a fairly self-contained community, and a glance through the trade directories from this period until the 1930's shows considerable local trade.