Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] than a [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 2 | Doctors dare not remove an airgun pellet lodged less than a millimetre from the optic nerve of Nicola Child 's right eye and have said sudden movement could blind the 15-year-old . |
| 3 | Valerie Moore is unable to understand how her eight-year-old son Lee strayed more than a mile from her home in Princes Road , Ellesmere Port , where he met his death on his brother 's bike . |
| 4 | He stood less than a yard from his victim , but she did not look up . |
| 5 | The pellet entered her nose , bounced from a bone and ended less than a millimetre from the optic nerve of her right eye . |