Example sentences of "only a [adj] yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were only a hundred yards away now , still as a cobra before it strikes . |
| 2 | The top of Bugmore Lane was only a hundred yards from the Church , so gardeners carefully timed their own comings and goings not to coincide with the comings and goings of the congregation . |
| 3 | The river 's only a hundred yards wide there . ’ |
| 4 | They did not go into the forest or , at the most , only a hundred yards or so . |
| 5 | Lesser Bayonne is bourgeois and compact , and contains the town 's two unexpectedly good museums , the Musée Bonn at and the Musée Basque , which are only a hundred yards apart . |
| 6 | The German trenches were less than two hundred yards ahead , with our front trench only a hundred yards from theirs . |
| 7 | Her whole idea of the world 's work was derived from what she observed there and had little in common with the circulation of the great city which toiled on only a hundred yards away . |
| 8 | And you 're only a hundred yards from her . |
| 9 | In one instance , a young pilot started a launch with another glider standing only a few yards to the side and just ahead of the take-off point . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you realise that the enemy are only a few yards from these positions ? |
| 11 | Some distance away , only a few yards from the vast unfinished Anglican cathedral , he found lodgings ( 13 St James 's Road ) with a spinsterish landlady who by origin was a Northern Irish Protestant . |
| 12 | Fred Klepner had been in and out of both Mark 's and Pat Muldoon 's offices , which were only a few yards apart , like an eager beaver . |
| 13 | No doubt from only a few yards out of the clearing , to get a straight view . |
| 14 | At the eastern end of the Ludwigstrasse the street opened out into a small square below the towering walls of the Herzogschloss , a massive fortification dating from the fifteenth century and set back only a few yards from the Danube . |
| 15 | Kohl , on the other hand , will have to live with a politically obtuse gesture that is being compared to his appearance with American President Ronald Reagan , in May 1985 , at a Bitburg cemetery where they laid remembrance wreaths only a few yards from rows of graves of SS soldiers . |
| 16 | He worked out there were one hundred and seventy-three different ways of getting to the library from the dining room and fifty-two different ways of getting from his dormitory to the nearest toilet , which was only a few yards from the dormitory itself . |
| 17 | She was only a few yards away . |
| 18 | The lane wound in wide loops all the way to Applewick , but by footpath there was a short cut across a field , through a wood , and then across another field , which came out only a few yards beyond the low bridge . |
| 19 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
| 20 | By this time we were only a few yards from him and the car had almost stopped . |
| 21 | By the time I got back home that seven pounds felt like seventy and I shall never forget , when I was about eight years old , with only a few yards to go , I dropped the precious parcel . |
| 22 | On bad days it rains and the mist covers everything in silence — you can see only a few yards in front of you and , if you wander from the road , can easily get lost . |
| 23 | He provides further insight into Operation ‘ Dunlop ’ : ‘ In April Ted Lawrence and myself were flown to Hendon ( from Elgin , Scotland , where 232 Squadron was based ) and , under strict security arrangements , did 130 hours practising take offs before reaching a white line across the strip , seemingly only a few yards ahead of us . |
| 24 | Every time he went into one of those phone-booths , he had a mental image of something going wrong , of a faster-than-usual trace , of a plain-clothes policeman being only a few yards away , taking the alarm on his personal radio and walking up to the phone-booth . |
| 25 | Buksch , only a few yards away , sees the aftermath and Wright escapes with a lecture . |
| 26 | It was only a few yards to the water . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ I was only a few yards away when the car came round the bend and hit the kerb . |
| 28 | The moorland and seemingly endless miles of coastal path ( accessible only a few yards from the hotel ) beckon many walkers . |
| 29 | The first he knew that something was up was when one of the first arrivals had suddenly tripped and fallen in the undergrowth , cursing softly as he did so , only a few yards from the hide . |
| 30 | I went there and found the beach exactly as described , with the clear and tranquil pond only a few yards behind the choppy sea . |