Example sentences of "a few yards of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading to within a few yards of it was a public right-of-way . |
| 2 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |
| 3 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
| 4 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 5 | A few yards of the old Whitehorse Road line were brought back into use and a crossover installed at Talbot Road , so that cars could stand clear of the busy road junction , as from 17 November . |
| 6 | Within a few yards of the school are a filling station , fire station , police HQ , and the entrance to the rail station and Great Eastern Square shopping complex car park . |
| 7 | The hotel was a shell , the roof having collapsed completely , but a few yards of the verandah ceiling remained intact and under it I spent the most wretched night of my life , standing in a dry corner , listening to the drenching rain and howling wind and breathing in the acrid fumes of the recent fire . |
| 8 | Within a few yards of the summit you can find fir clubmoss huperzia selago , and mountain azalea loiseleuria procumbens , both delightful finds for the plant hunter . |
| 9 | As she came within a few yards of it , however , a shudder passed down its spine , and it rolled over , showing its face to the sleet . |
| 10 | Public perception of the war in Europe was of a senseless conflict fought out in the mud and filth of Flanders , with thousands killed each day for the sake of only a few yards of territory soon lost in the next offensive . |
| 11 | Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole . |
| 12 | A few yards of material have changed her from one person into another . |
| 13 | Surely they 'd do better making love on board Grace than on a few yards of Mackenzie tartan ? |
| 14 | Well , she thought , it wo n't be difficult to judge how right I am , if I pay out a few yards of line for him . |
| 15 | His move towards contracting led to his being awarded the contract for the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway in 1855 , reaching his home village a year later and passing within a few yards of his first contract , the iron bridge . |
| 16 | Only a few yards of moonlit turf separated them . |
| 17 | It was n't until she got within a few yards of him that he realized it was Maisie . |
| 18 | As well as the noise the couple would have to put up with a landfill site within a few yards of their garden . |
| 19 | Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway . |
| 20 | After the 1915 offensives , the troops had come to believe that if Pétain called for an attack there must be some point to it , that it would not be a senseless sacrifice of lives in the way of those over-ambitious generals , out to gain recognition from the conquest at any price of a few yards of enemy trench . |