From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishin/within memoryin/within memoryALWAYS/FOREVERduring the time that people can remember the worst floods in living memory (=since the earliest time that people now alive can remember) It’s certainly the best England team in recent memory. The disaster was within the memory of many men still working at the station. → memory
Examples from the Corpus
within the memory of• And within the memory of my neighbours fields were ploughed by oxen. 