Example sentences of "only [art] [det] hundred yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | She left the Tube at Chalk Farm and walked — it was only a few hundred yards . |
| 2 | Only a few hundred yards to the north-west of Thiepval is the Ulster Tower , commemorating the soldiers of the 36th ( Ulster ) Division and across the road is the Connaught Cemetery . |
| 3 | A cousin of my granny 's lived only a few hundred yards from us . |
| 4 | Wilkins ' response was to set up another mill only a few hundred yards away , this time using steam power . |
| 5 | He had only a few hundred yards to go as the house he was planning to visit was also in the Vomero but he did not wish to arrive with perspiration on his forehead or dust on his shoes . |
| 6 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
| 7 | Then , with only a few hundred yards separating them now from their foes , they set off seawards . |
| 8 | The farmers threatened to sue IBM and one , Jack Briscoe , whose farm was only a few hundred yards from the mine entrance , claimed to have lost 40 animals in the past ten years from toxic lead fallout from the mine 's operations . |
| 9 | Their dark waters , in places only a few hundred yards across , were met by vertically plunging forest , wreathed in mist , and for the most part deathly quiet . |
| 10 | ‘ I can see I do n't need to explain how this parcel of land is only a few hundred yards from the newly designated railway lines . |
| 11 | On the following night Dougal and Lorton decided against taking the car ; the distance from Lorton 's house to the Newleys ' was only a few hundred yards . |
| 12 | Bishopsgate is locked only a few hundred yards form the Bury Street Office and the explosion blew in a skylight , narrowly missing Jon Staniforth . |
| 13 | So we 're having to have shutters with a central hinge and we 're fortunate again in York we 've got a wonderful erm prototype , only a few hundred yards away in the Minster . |
| 14 | Meanwhile in the supermarket car park only a few hundred yards from the scene of the rape , women expressed their shock at what had happened : |
| 15 | But only a few hundred yards away from homes targetted for eviction … other RAF quarters stand empty . |
| 16 | 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 . |