Example sentences of "a few [adj] yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children came to laugh at the animals as they rocked autistically or broke into tantrums ; creatures accustomed to marking out miles of territory in a single day were now constrained to prowl and circle in a few narrow yards . |
| 2 | She left the Tube at Chalk Farm and walked — it was only a few hundred yards . |
| 3 | American helicopters hovered near the Panamanian Defence Forces headquarters , and US soldiers in combat gear took up positions a few hundred yards away to block a road leading to the canal . |
| 4 | While these constitutional niceties were being debated , a crowd of students gathered in the rain a few hundred yards away in Wenceslas Square to demonstrate support for Mr Havel . |
| 5 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 6 | The Valley of the Shadow of Death was the steep lane that dropped between darkly overhanging hedgerows a few hundred yards from his home , a stony track where one walked at night whistling . |
| 7 | Only a few hundred yards to the north-west of Thiepval is the Ulster Tower , commemorating the soldiers of the 36th ( Ulster ) Division and across the road is the Connaught Cemetery . |
| 8 | A cousin of my granny 's lived only a few hundred yards from us . |
| 9 | JUST a few hundred yards from the palace area of Castle Hill stands the Matthias Church . |
| 10 | A few hundred yards away at Conservative Central Office the mood has been more subdued , though not defeatist . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Conservative insiders gathered in Green 's restaurant in Westminster , a few hundred yards from Conservative Central Office , for dinner and an election session on television sets placed strategically around the room . |
| 12 | After spending the evening lambing , he had driven a few hundred yards to the copse from his home nearby at New Manor Farm , Winterslow , Wilts , where he lived with his Australian-born wife , Lavinia , 39 , seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter . |
| 13 | When you get back to the Club Zorna Hotel , the action is still going on , whilst at the International Nightclub just a few hundred yards away , the night 's just beginning — and I went to Yugoslavia thinking it would be restful ! |
| 14 | Wilkins ' response was to set up another mill only a few hundred yards away , this time using steam power . |
| 15 | He followed the main road for a few hundred yards up St Peter 's Hill and then took a track between the main road and the Thames , directly towards Blagrave Farm . |
| 16 | For her land now lay underneath a plantation of banana trees a few hundred yards down the road from a bricked-up mosque . |
| 17 | The track disappeared into the forest a few hundred yards past their house . |
| 18 | After a few hundred yards , he sought sanctuary in a nearby house . |
| 19 | Even though the plight of those two climbers should have released me from my fear of calling for help on behalf of others , I 'm still wary unless I come across someone whose legs are a few hundred yards from their body . |
| 20 | He had only a few hundred yards to go as the house he was planning to visit was also in the Vomero but he did not wish to arrive with perspiration on his forehead or dust on his shoes . |
| 21 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
| 22 | He thought of Hoomey 's house a few hundred yards up , his stooge of a VATman dad smoking his pipe in front of the fire and his fat mum in the kitchen … |
| 23 | A scattering of cottages , an idyllically set Tudor Manor house and , a few hundred yards away , a church dating from Norman times ; all this in a peaceful valley of a tributary of the Looe River . |
| 24 | He saw Mr Vaughan cross Cadhay Bridge a few hundred yards away , heard the calves in fields beyond the river calling to their mothers , and then , as the storms of an October night closed round , he closed his eyes and tried to sleep . |
| 25 | Each night as he lay in bed he would imagine himself catching the train from the local station — such reveries usually assumed the initial achievement of getting outside the camp — or stalking the frontier guards among the mountains with Switzerland a few hundred yards away across the snow … |
| 26 | Beyond that lay a few hundred yards of rough , occasionally wooded farmland . |
| 27 | The season began in spectacular fashion when , within the first 20 minutes after the helicopter landed , Keizo Yanai , of the Institute of Polar Programs in Tokyo , discovered two stony meteorites lying a few hundred yards away . |
| 28 | The Tournament arena was laid out on a flat piece of land in a loop of the Lugton Water , a few hundred yards east of the castle . |
| 29 | He was in the buying department at Schering , the chemical company based a few hundred yards from the sector border in the district of Wedding . |
| 30 | A few hundred yards further on , though , venerable stone walls sprang up on either side and we were suddenly in a picture-book Cotswold village tucked away out of sight in the ignoble fringes of the city . |