Example sentences of "than a few yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visibility had been reduced to no more than a few yards . |
| 2 | With heartfelt thanks he ran to the stable and , before his parents had gone more than a few yards , he had galloped past them towards his home . |
| 3 | However , we had n't gone more than a few yards when she stopped and turned around . |
| 4 | The old lady who dare not allow herself to be more than a few yards from the toilet or the old man whose underclothes are frequently wet with urine , may often react by limitation of social life and consequent days of isolation and low morale … |
| 5 | These are purely tourist attractions these days ; the drivers are all over sixty , and taking you more than a few yards could prove fatal . |
| 6 | To test whether recognising the land beneath is essential to them in finding the way , opaque contact lenses were fitted to their eyes which prevented them from seeing more than a few yards ahead . |
| 7 | In the darkness we passed through the defile of Gebel Silsila where the river narrows dramatically to a width of no more than a few yards . |
| 8 | The genius of English painting was turning to the grandeur and the detail of Nature — Turner , Constable , Wright of Derby , Gainsborough — all coming here , sometimes no more than a few yards from the wood in which Mary was now making her way , also driven by the strange , indefinable current of change , as powerful and mysterious as the turn of a tide , which now decreed that the study of man should be through Nature . |
| 9 | It was now impossible to see more than a few yards . |
| 10 | Nobody there , but he could n't be more than a few yards away and Forester 's fingers would n't obey him enough to get the buckles properly secured . |
| 11 | The three of them began to creep slowly down the hill , moving from tree to tree , but no more than a few yards at a time . |