Example sentences of "[conj] a few yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er if they did they 'd find erm quite spotlessly clean interiors of the caravans but , in an area where there 's all sorts of that a few yards away and quite carelessly dumped and left around . |
| 2 | Visibility had been reduced to no more than a few yards . |
| 3 | With heartfelt thanks he ran to the stable and , before his parents had gone more than a few yards , he had galloped past them towards his home . |
| 4 | However , we had n't gone more than a few yards when she stopped and turned around . |
| 5 | The old lady who dare not allow herself to be more than a few yards from the toilet or the old man whose underclothes are frequently wet with urine , may often react by limitation of social life and consequent days of isolation and low morale … |
| 6 | These are purely tourist attractions these days ; the drivers are all over sixty , and taking you more than a few yards could prove fatal . |
| 7 | To test whether recognising the land beneath is essential to them in finding the way , opaque contact lenses were fitted to their eyes which prevented them from seeing more than a few yards ahead . |
| 8 | In the darkness we passed through the defile of Gebel Silsila where the river narrows dramatically to a width of no more than a few yards . |
| 9 | The genius of English painting was turning to the grandeur and the detail of Nature — Turner , Constable , Wright of Derby , Gainsborough — all coming here , sometimes no more than a few yards from the wood in which Mary was now making her way , also driven by the strange , indefinable current of change , as powerful and mysterious as the turn of a tide , which now decreed that the study of man should be through Nature . |
| 10 | It was now impossible to see more than a few yards . |
| 11 | Nobody there , but he could n't be more than a few yards away and Forester 's fingers would n't obey him enough to get the buckles properly secured . |
| 12 | The three of them began to creep slowly down the hill , moving from tree to tree , but no more than a few yards at a time . |
| 13 | In a prison-camp the world you wanted to get to was visible all the time and , although you did not live in it , you knew that it was only a matter of some barbed wire and a few yards away . |
| 14 | It was about a mile from the village , set back from the road , with tall iron gates , securely locked , at the entrance , and a few yards inside them a lodge . |
| 15 | Sadly , as television interviews all too clearly show , most footballers from other teams are monosyllabic in speech and a few yards short of a goal in the brain department . |
| 16 | The figure passed , breathing hard , and a few yards ahead turned in at one of the gates . |
| 17 | ( 55 ) I found a bottle with which I made numerous marks on the ground surrounding our tents and a few yards into the jungle , as far as I dared venture . |
| 18 | It was but a few yards across the first field that he was attacked by three footpads . |
| 19 | The hotel was a shell , the roof having collapsed completely , but a few yards of the verandah ceiling remained intact and under it I spent the most wretched night of my life , standing in a dry corner , listening to the drenching rain and howling wind and breathing in the acrid fumes of the recent fire . |
| 20 | Erm but er I hope you 're not going to way that er Westminster Council has gone , for each er er er , er er th their property into disrepair they bought it up , do it up and flog it on the open market when a few yards away there are people no a er now sleeping under bridges and canals ! |