Example sentences of "a [adj] metres [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demonstrators stopped their march , a few metres away from a police line deployed in the temple 's front square . |
| 2 | As they stared intently at a cameraman lurking on the bank , a family of mink , unnoticed peered curiously at them , from only a few metres away . |
| 3 | A beam flashed across the runway only a few metres away from the shuttle 's nose . |
| 4 | The creature was only a few metres away now . |
| 5 | The woman stopped , only a few metres away now , and exchanged a glance with Ace before turning slowly to face Defries . |
| 6 | They ran for the shelter of a large chunk of dislodged temple that had fallen a few metres away . |
| 7 | Slightly smaller than Jeanneau 's new protégé , and displayed with considerably less ostentation only a few metres away , was the neat little Sprint designed by Joubert/Nivelt and built by Archambault . |
| 8 | He got up from his seat as quickly as his thick furs and old muscles would allow , kicked some slates and books out of his way across the glass floor and started inspecting a pillar a few metres away . |
| 9 | He sensed Rodo 's presence a few metres ahead of him . |
| 10 | They are spaced only a few metres apart , each wearing the garish colours of their clan , two on the kiteline , others as reel carriers , coaches or vociferous fans . |
| 11 | Ace caught it , almost pulled Defries from her perch , released it , and rolled to a stop a few metres further down the slope . |
| 12 | The importance of getting a good start now becomes obvious , since if you fall only a few metres behind in the first minute after the start you fall into everyone else 's dirty wind and drop even further back . |
| 13 | On moderately dry ground , for example along the coast of Antarctica , unsorted polygons are convex shapes in the ground up to a few metres across , ringed by a network of furrows that mark the positions of persistent cracks ( Figure 3.8 ) . |
| 14 | For a group of young nuns to challenge the full authority of the Chinese state , visibly expressed by the tin-hatted martial-law troops standing guard only a hundred metres away , is an act of calculated defiance . |
| 15 | It was less than a hundred metres away , and gave us a long hard look as we stood there . |
| 16 | The ship 's gun BOOMED ! and the shot fell only a hundred metres away . |
| 17 | And the same thing applies posts are a hundred metres apart . |
| 18 | Silver and the rest were a hundred metres behind , and I heard him shouting , ‘ Jim , Jim ! ’ |
| 19 | Using a scale a one centimetre representing a hundred metres So that 'll be nine centimetres . |
| 20 | Well if they 've separated you see you get one on the inside track , one on the outside track and they can be separated by a hundred metres so that there 's one , one side one |
| 21 | A hundred metres further there was a barrier across the road with flashing lights , cars parked along the verges , police with guns . |
| 22 | The view ahead was obscured by a section of partially completed walling at the east end , but when he reached the comer Zen fount that the only unpredictable feature of the landscape was a river which cut across the track about a hundred metres further on . |