Example sentences of "within a [adj] yards [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road . |
| 2 | It was hours before the first students managed to permeate through the streets and come to within a hundred yards of the Mar Girgis . |
| 3 | Others who made it to within a hundred yards of the bridge … count themselves lucky to have survived … |
| 4 | Its guidlines state that the bypass would have to be within a hundred yards of the road or the conditions intolerable before the property would be bought , though the Judge Mr Justice Latham said that in his view those guidelines were a shambles . |
| 5 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
| 6 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 7 | Within a few yards of the school are a filling station , fire station , police HQ , and the entrance to the rail station and Great Eastern Square shopping complex car park . |
| 8 | Within a few yards of the summit you can find fir clubmoss huperzia selago , and mountain azalea loiseleuria procumbens , both delightful finds for the plant hunter . |