Example sentences of "just a short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a short journey from the busy M4 and major cities , Ynys Hywel provides a perfect location for business meetings and seminars in the peace and tranquillity of the countryside . |
| 2 | A new bus service means people are just a short journey from Beresford Buildings , which have undergone a £1.1m refurbishment plan . |
| 3 | Beyond the city boundaries but just a short drive away is the Royal Shakespeare Theatre on the River Avon at Stratford , the Grand Theatre at Wolverhampton and the Arts Centre at Warwick University . |
| 4 | If one place in Britain has become inextricably associated with the unpleasant side of the nuclear industry , it is the giant complex of reactors and waste handling facilities on the Cumbrian coast just a short drive away from the Lake District . |
| 5 | The M1 is only 8 miles away and Leeds-Bradford airport just a short drive . |
| 6 | Sports enthusiasts do n't lack for activities with Silverstone Race Track and the Delapre Golf Complex being amongst a host of activities and leisure pursuits just a short drive away . |
| 7 | There are glorious walks to be found in the Sierra and although there is no proper beach to speak of in Deya , there is a small cove within walking distance and the town Puerto Pollensa — with a long sweeping unspoilt beach — is just a short drive away . |
| 8 | Luxury apartment , just a short drive from home ? |
| 9 | For example , picturesque Braemar — home of the Highland Games — is just a short drive from Craigendarroch . |
| 10 | Stansted is ideally located just a short drive off the M11 and the M25 . |
| 11 | Snowdonia National Park is just a short drive away . |
| 12 | It 's just a short hop here by taxi . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ There is no one to sue if someone libels the dead , ’ says Olivier Jnr , sipping a bottle of Carlsberg in the garden of the Chelsea Arts Club , just a short bike ride from his Fulham home . |
| 14 | Perhaps the latter is just a short wavelength approximation to a true wave mechanics which we can attempt to unscramble by analogy with the relation that geometrical optics bears to wave optics . |
| 15 | Just a short way ? |
| 16 | sort of going just a short way along and having to reverse back out again |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As I crouched down in the trench I thought of the French family just a short distance away from us . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ You know that the enemy are just a short distance along the road ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He was sitting by the water of Biscayne Bay just a short distance from the set . |
| 23 | Just a short distance away , looming above a glacier , was the dazzling , ice-hung bulk of Chonku Chuli . |
| 24 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ The plane touched down just a short distance before the runway itself . |
| 29 | ‘ The news broke on the wireless just a short while ago . |
| 30 | Anyway , as you know , we were almost brought up in the same bassinet , and , as I made out to Mama just a short while ago , if Isobel had to choose between the horse and me , the horse would come out best . ’ |