Example sentences of "[noun] only a few feet " in BNC.
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1 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
2 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
3 | With a screech , the car began to slow as the brakes were applied , and Richmann could clearly see the startled faces of the occupants as it slewed to a halt only a few feet ahead . |
4 | A cupboard in the cell was moved aside to reveal the rope and the trap only a few feet away beyond an open door . |
5 | In no time at all we were standing on a huge patch of snow at the summit of a mountain only a few feet short of a Munro . |