Example sentences of "only a few hundred [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we meet Odd-Knut coming back to find us we are only a few hundred metres from the camp . |
| 2 | The ship , large and grey , sat only a few hundred metres from the assault force . |
| 3 | Only a few hundred metres from them lay Fakrid . |
| 4 | A cousin of my granny 's lived only a few hundred yards from us . |
| 5 | The farmers threatened to sue IBM and one , Jack Briscoe , whose farm was only a few hundred yards from the mine entrance , claimed to have lost 40 animals in the past ten years from toxic lead fallout from the mine 's operations . |
| 6 | ‘ I can see I do n't need to explain how this parcel of land is only a few hundred yards from the newly designated railway lines . |
| 7 | Meanwhile in the supermarket car park only a few hundred yards from the scene of the rape , women expressed their shock at what had happened : |
| 8 | The building is only a few hundred yards from Blackfriars head office and many Sainsbury 's staff have become quite attached to the distinctive former cold store . |
| 9 | Iraq is after all only a few hundred miles from the Soviet Union 's own ( Muslim-dominated ) southern border . |