Example sentences of "a few [num] [noun pl] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 2 | Just a few hundred yards from West Mercia police HQ in Worcester and the first of what 's thought to be 28,000 drivers in this area with no tax disc , is pulled in . |
| 3 | The building is only a few hundred yards from Blackfriars head office and many Sainsbury 's staff have become quite attached to the distinctive former cold store . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With such ambitions , a few billion dollars from BT will come in handy . |