Example sentences of "[adv] a few pace " in BNC.

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1 I should have said that these houses are all close to the road , perhaps a few paces from the pavement .
2 Visitors to the city may easily fail to chance upon Portugal Place which remains an oasis of timeless calm only a few paces from the crowded pavements of the city centre .
3 The worm-eaten stairs were only a few paces from the open door but she did n't give them a thought .
4 Susan , who lives in Sunderland , can walk only a few paces with a stick , has lost the use of an arm and has impaired eyesight .
5 The ground was soft and spongy and in only a few paces her canvas shoes were soaked .
6 But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him .
7 But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip .
8 Then he sprang , bearing her down into the trampled snow only a few paces from Yet 's body .
9 It was when he reached the ground floor and was only a few paces from the door leading to the basement that things started to go wrong .
10 Grimm stumbled away a few paces .
11 When she grew calmer , he slowly released her and she walked away a few paces , staggering , digging her hands in her pockets and turning her back on him .
12 Sharpe was just a few paces from his enemy .
13 Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me .
14 The horse jumped forward a few paces with his limbs bunched up and then , holding himself for a brief moment in a static rear , galloped off in sheer terror down the path .
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