Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [art] few inches " in BNC.

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1 He turned his head , and saw a human foot a few inches away .
2 Place a sheet of fine netting a few inches above cabbages and brassicas to keep cabbage white butterflies away .
3 As she stood on the quayside looking , a little yappy dog scuttered up from the cabin snarling at her bare toes a few inches from the deck , and a woman in maroon trousers and a yellow and orange flowered bikini top bulged over with fiery red flesh looked crossly at Peony .
4 However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide .
5 Shifting slightly , he drilled a new indentation a few inches from the original .
6 Entering the shielded room , the physician will place both hands a few inches above the disturbed area in the patient 's energy field , and begin to ‘ tune in ’ and resonate biomagnetic energy field patterns in unison with the patient .
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