Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few hundred yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few hundred yards , he sought sanctuary in a nearby house . |
| 2 | He followed the main road for a few hundred yards up St Peter 's Hill and then took a track between the main road and the Thames , directly towards Blagrave Farm . |
| 3 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
| 4 | These days the ladies will ride if only for a few hundred yards . |
| 5 | Thirteen thousand minds , memories , loves , sensations , worlds , universes — because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself- and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud . |
| 6 | Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road . |
| 7 | They went there in the middle of that morning , passing through the gate in the garden wall and along the cliff-path for a few hundred yards and then on to the golf-course . |
| 8 | Only when we were within a few hundred yards of it could we see the waves frothing over and around it , giving just a hint of the menace below . |
| 9 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 10 | There were three major ones , standing within a few hundred yards of each other . |
| 11 | If she walks within a few hundred yards of this building , she will see young people , whom the Government have deprived of benefit , sleeping rough and begging on the streets because of the total indifference of people such as the hon. Lady and Conservative Members . |
| 12 | But he said : ‘ We would not expect this to be the case when the ambulance station is within a few hundred yards of the person who made the call . ’ |
| 13 | Some way past the hotel , still on the few hundred yards of concrete ‘ promenade ’ , I saw a very tall elderly man standing and bending in the middle of the road , apparently looking for something . |
| 14 | For some of the people who live here this recent trade boom has meant new found wealth … and young people enjoy the fruits of industry like any of their European counterparts … on the few hundred yards of coastline yet to be swallowed up by industry . |
| 15 | The length of the repairs to be done with the flagstones will vary from several miles to a few hundred yards , and they will be laid with the help of local authorities , volunteers and environmental associations . |