Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] just a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , Germany suffered a massive blow to its pride when the Hindenburg crashed in a ball of flames just a few miles from Nicholson 's home town , Neptune , New Jersey soon after he was born . |
| 2 | It is perhaps ironic that , with such a volume of water just a few yards from the doors , it had to use steam . |
| 3 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 4 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 5 | She died of cancer just a few days after Samuel George was born . |
| 6 | Machines that were seen to be at the forefront of technology just a few years ago are now readily replaced and cast-off with little or no second-hand value . |
| 7 | For is this not how such a story should begin , with the cliché of the poor and disenfranchised of the earth , huddling for warmth just a few feet away from champagne-swilling plutocrats glorying in their ascendancy ? |
| 8 | With Dennis just a few feet away on the stairs , it was the sexual equivalent of Russian roulette . |
| 9 | Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier . |
| 10 | She handed me the sheet of grey paper with its synoptic chart which had been transmitted from Florida just a few moments before . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend will have welcomed the substantial arms and explosives finds in Belfast just a few weeks ago . |
| 12 | Watch out for Val Piriou , a young French designer who came to England just a few years ago unable to speak English . |
| 13 | One of his worst experiences had been at Sunset just a few days before . |
| 14 | To see examples of life thousands of years ago unearthed by archaeologists just a few miles away . |
| 15 | To see examples of life thousands of years ago unearthed by archaeologists just a few miles away . |