Example sentences of "just a [adj] distance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a short distance away , where the Whitechapel Road has turned into the Mild End Road , was another East End concern whose name had become part of a company with national interests — Mann Crossman and Paulin of the Albion brewery . |
| 2 | As I crouched down in the trench I thought of the French family just a short distance away from us . |
| 3 | Wounded were being brought out from the orchard at the back of the farm which was being subjected to unusually heavy mortaring from the German positions just a short distance across the fields . |
| 4 | He had a good knowledge of Scotland , particularly the bagpipes , and I am sure if I had offered to go along to Brigade HQ to fetch my bagpipes he would have had me marching up and down the orchard playing his favourite tunes , much to the consternation of the other Commandos , and possibly the annoyance of the Germans just a short distance away . |
| 5 | ‘ You know that the enemy are just a short distance along the road ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He was sitting by the water of Biscayne Bay just a short distance from the set . |
| 7 | Just a short distance away , looming above a glacier , was the dazzling , ice-hung bulk of Chonku Chuli . |
| 8 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 9 | Bulford , where the Avon and the Nine Mile River meet , is just a short distance from Stonehenge , and was one of the first sites on Salisbury Plain to be bought by the War Office at the turn of the century and turned into a garrison , bringing new industry to a village that had previously been dependent on agriculture . |
| 10 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 11 | Even now he was just a short distance away , in the club 's office , while she supervised the stocking of a new promotional lager in the bar . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ The plane touched down just a short distance before the runway itself . |