Example sentences of "a few [noun] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 2 | Then , waiting until everyone else had taken their pictures , I crept forward until I was only a few metres from the bird . |
| 3 | by installing the bath a few inches from the wall , Bill was able to create a tiled ledge for soaps and sponges . |
| 4 | Shifting slightly , he drilled a new indentation a few inches from the original . |
| 5 | As she stood on the quayside looking , a little yappy dog scuttered up from the cabin snarling at her bare toes a few inches from the deck , and a woman in maroon trousers and a yellow and orange flowered bikini top bulged over with fiery red flesh looked crossly at Peony . |
| 6 | After returning from a week away I found the pond to be deep black ; the fish were visible a few inches from the surface . |
| 7 | Practise this until you can bring the model to a stop , in the hover , a few inches from the ground and just in front of you . |
| 8 | Later vehicles have a braided earth lead running to the body a few inches from the motor . |
| 9 | A few snippets from the Feedback Sheets on Care Sunday give us some flavour of what has happened in different parishes across the Diocese e.g : |
| 10 | The great centre of the rich Pays d'Auge , also cider and Calvados country , is Vimoutiers , only a few kilometres from the cheese villages of both Camembert and Livarot . |
| 11 | It will be enough to quote , in illustration of opacity , a few lines from the beginning of a novel noted for its linguistic singularity : Titus is seven . |
| 12 | This homely and very Tyrolean four-star hotel is close to the golf course , and just a few minutes from the resort centre . |
| 13 | It 's set in its own park with beautiful rolling gardens leading down to the road which separates the hotel from its own private beach , yet is only a few minutes from the centre . |
| 14 | When it 's just a few minutes from the face , the thick cloud filling the valley gently wells up to lock in the cold . |
| 15 | However , there was a delay of a few minutes from the start of the experiment before the chicks ate their first camouflaged rice grains . |
| 16 | This very friendly gasthaus is ideally situated next to the Hahnenkamm cable car , and is just a few minutes from the town centre . |
| 17 | Almost as cruel was the way they lost , a few minutes from the end , having fought back to equalise . |
| 18 | Ron Wood invited Buddy to stay on stage for his own short set and then Gary Moore strode on once again , his keyboard player teasing the audience with a few notes from the Stone 's classic Satisfaction , hinting at what was to come . |
| 19 | There are a few records from the coast every year suggesting migration . |
| 20 | As for those countries who live under a non-religious dictatorship and are officially atheist , they appear to have learned a few things from the Inquisition . |
| 21 | Riches : until she had given Luke the money she owed him , paid a month 's rent in advance , redeemed a few things from the pawnshop , bought extra coal for the cold weather , taken Liam to a doctor because something had to be done about his cough ; looked down the bleak distance of the weeks ahead with no work promised . |
| 22 | ‘ We encountered a baby common dolphin trapped only a few feet from the surface , its beak and tall flipper hopelessly wrapped in layer upon layer of nylon mesh . |
| 23 | Visibility on both motorways was down to 50 yards but some drivers were speeding a few feet from the vehicle in front . |
| 24 | Perched a few feet from the top of the 1,000ft Glenshane Pass is one of N. Ireland 's most famous pubs , and probably also ’ its ’ highest , The Ponderosa . |
| 25 | The Luggage halted a few feet from the wizard and , after a moment , retracted its legs . |
| 26 | In the hazy conditions a bright yellow camera bag was spotted first , a few feet from the corpse , which was lodged face down between a rock and a bush . |
| 27 | In the tribal agencies , government authority frequently ends a few feet from the road . |
| 28 | The coop was on the roof , a few feet from the door to the house , and was a hollowed-out tree-trunk with a wooden slat for sealing the entrance at night . |
| 29 | Soon they were airborne , the dragon skimming along easily a few feet from the floor and leaving a billowing cloud of dust in its wake . |
| 30 | He stepped up just a few feet from the service line to receive Lendl 's second serve . |