Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [adj] feet " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the space of two heartbeats the two protagonists , hunter and quarry , glared at each other across the intervening gap of a few feet , while hurtling through the night at better than 80 m.p.h . |
| 2 | Frustrating equipment failures forced Victor and His partner Steve Sustad to abort their summit attempt on a 24,000 feet high unclimbed peak in the Karakoram last year . |
| 3 | Unchanged , however , are the environs of the great waterfall at the head of the valley , a scene of awesome natural grandeur where , in a surround of towering limestone cliffs , Hardraw Beck plunges over the lip of a crag in a graceful unbroken leap of a hundred feet . |
| 4 | Strictly speaking , much of this walk is trespassing since it does n't follow recognised footpaths , but the land is rough grazing and wo n't suffer from the passage of a few feet . |
| 5 | It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's a patch of grass a few feet by a few feet , ’ I informed him , suddenly aware that Mr Palmer had never visited Chelsea Terrace in his life . |
| 7 | Eight individuals living and working together in the confines of a ninety feet steel hull for three months and still parting as friends at the end of the trip says a lot for compatibility of the cutter crews . |
| 8 | At Monza , he beat Jochen Rindt by a few feet and the championship was his , even though he did not win another race that season . |
| 9 | She explained that the tree , to her looked like a green fuzzy clump even at a distance of a few feet . |
| 10 | Nolan , glowering routinely at Sam from a few feet away , switched his ill-humour to me . |
| 11 | In minutes they stood facing each other across a few feet of upland grass , the fresher horses of Jinneth 's escort stamping impatiently . |
| 12 | Visually , the body reminds me of a Schecter or Tom Anderson and if it was n't for Aria 's distinctive headstock you 'd be hard pushed to tell this was n't a £1500 guitar from a few feet away . |
| 13 | At the depth of a hundred feet , which is what we will be at , we could easily remain underwater for an hour without any risk of either oxygen poisoning or decompression illness . |
| 14 | It is probably significant that our own body size of a few feet is roughly in the middle of the range of sizes we can imagine . |
| 15 | As in any jet , thrust controls speed and elevator maintains glide angle on a continuous curving base leg to a four-mile final at a thousand feet or a little below . |
| 16 | On one occasion we were lying alongside a pipe-laying barge in a remote anchorage with a six feet swell grinding Venturous against the chain secured tyre fenders when the superintendent of the large leaned over and shouted down to me . |
| 17 | As they move forward , Tepilit , without warning , hurls his spear at the district officer from a few feet away . |
| 18 | All cabinet council meetings took place in the west wing of the White House within a few feet of the Oval Office . |