Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] from [art] [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 ‘ Any idiot could stick a few leaves from a houseplant on their heads , and wrap themselves in a bedsheet .
10 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 :
11 I do n't know if any of the other Sunday rags picked this up but here are a few snippets from an article in the ‘ Yorkshire on Sunday ’ , entitled ‘ Batty blasts Leeds ’ ( 26.12.93 )
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 This homely and very Tyrolean four-star hotel is close to the golf course , and just a few minutes from the resort centre .
15 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 .
16 When it 's just a few minutes from the face , the thick cloud filling the valley gently wells up to lock in the cold .
17 However , there was a delay of a few minutes from the start of the experiment before the chicks ate their first camouflaged rice grains .
18 This very friendly gasthaus is ideally situated next to the Hahnenkamm cable car , and is just a few minutes from the town centre .
19 Almost as cruel was the way they lost , a few minutes from the end , having fought back to equalise .
20 However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack .
21 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 .
22 There are a few records from the coast every year suggesting migration .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Marion Howells and her daughter Kayleigh were asleep just a few feet from a window which was shattered by the blasts .
26 If this is not possible , allow roughly the same amount of space on each opposing side ( for example , by placing one side of the rug a few feet from a wall and the opposite side the same distance from a large piece of furniture ) .
27 At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest .
28 ‘ 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 .
29 Visibility on both motorways was down to 50 yards but some drivers were speeding a few feet from the vehicle in front .
30 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 .
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