Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] further " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ace caught it , almost pulled Defries from her perch , released it , and rolled to a stop a few metres further down the slope . |
| 2 | Jenny and Antony moved a few inches further apart , then giggled at each other because of the involuntary movement . |
| 3 | These women go out with their children and in their bags or baskets , instead of carrying nappies or extra clothing for their children , they have the bombs or weapons which we will use a few blocks further on . |
| 4 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 5 | Then a few lines further on : ‘ Stavrogin reveals himself gradually through the action without any explanations ’ . |
| 6 | Similarly a few lines further on , in the description of the journey to Golgotha , the long version has " goost , swete Ihesu out of Ierusalem toward " ( p.99 ) , where the interjection of " swete Ihesu " interrupts the action of the scene and lends the whole description a devotional tone . |
| 7 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |
| 8 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 9 | If she had made it just a few feet further she would have found safety in the homely atmosphere of the estate where she lives with her family . |
| 10 | Where the fall hit the pool the water threshed as though boiling , but a few feet further on it was limpid , still , crystal-clear , hedged in by banks of ferns and tulip trees , and at the far end was the outlet where the water drained away to the sea . |
| 11 | We will return to Morvich a few pages further on . |
| 12 | ‘ Balls ’ was the next word she came across , a few yards further on . |
| 13 | We loaded the first two into the trailer , and were heading a few yards further on to pick up a third canister when we noticed that the enemy fire was now being directed at our part of the cornfield . |
| 14 | There 's no need to use it if the river 's not in spate , since you can just as easily hop over some stones in the shallows a few yards further upstream . |
| 15 | Lost John 's Cave is found very easily by rounding the end of the wall on the right and walking back alongside for 180 yards to a hollow where a small stream enters a black cavity in a low cliff ; a few yards further over a small rise is another less obvious orifice . |
| 16 | Here interest is revived by the sight of Sulber Pot and intensified a few yards further where , in a hollow , Nick Pot is seen ; alternative entrances combine below the surface at the top of a vertical shaft that falls sheer to a depth of 370 feet . |
| 17 | When you have noted the area where the bream cease to roll and do not appear again in the immediate vicinity , the terminal point will be a few yards further along in the direction they were travelling . |
| 18 | A third blazed out its fiery message a few yards further on ; and a fourth and fifth , all along the line , until they disappeared as orange glowworms in the far distance of the French right wing . |
| 19 | Allen cast around and within a few yards further came upon a man-made path , narrow and winding , but in frequent use . |
| 20 | Here was a Burger King , untouched , though the crowd must have swept past it as they hastened to torch ( loot is too optimistic a word for these foul establishments ) the Winchells Do-nut restaurant a few yards further on . |
| 21 | At first this bus route ran a few yards further than the trolleybuses , which had run round the Fair Green , and terminated on a small patch of prepared ground alongside the pond at the beginning of Mitcham Common . |
| 22 | A few yards further in , the lining of the tunnel finished and we were on good ground . |
| 23 | An identical table and matching vase was a few yards further on . |
| 24 | Peeking out , she saw three white-coated figures approach , two hurrying along in front , the last trailing a few yards further back . |
| 25 | The towpath proper did n't start until a few yards further down where it angled away from the road and followed the river ; here it was marked by a narrow strip of waterside grass and trees that would immediately raise the cost of any overlooking property by at least ten thousand . |
| 26 | And Colin finished up just down here on the pavement and Keith maybe a few yards further down er with very bad injuries . |
| 27 | A few yards further on he stopped at the edge of a grove of trees . |
| 28 | The liquid is now officially called beer but it needs a few days further conditioning in the brewery , to purge some of the rough alcohols , before it is ready to leave for the pub . |
| 29 | A few miles further down the road they came on a group of Italians with rifles waving at them to stop , obviously having been alerted by the German post . |
| 30 | At the Sedgwick memorial , the main street continues ahead and a branch turns right , these rejoining at Cowgill a few miles further on ; this branch road will be described on the return journey . |