Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] yards [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nose-wheel is normally lifted at seventy knots to rotate at ninety , but because of the wind I held her down to 95 for a clean lift-off at a hundred after a run of a thousand yards or so . |
| 2 | He walked up the main street for a hundred yards and came to a road off on his right labelled Buller 's Hill . |
| 3 | Certainly , it was quite a strenuous walk — though I can say it failed to cause me any real difficulty — the path rising in zigzags up the hillside for a hundred yards or so . |
| 4 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |
| 5 | The track , after leaving the ridge , went steeply down for a few yards and then turned to the right and ran diagonally across the hill for a hundred yards ; the pile of rocks was about midway on the right-hand side of this length of the track . |
| 6 | It goes straight for a few yards and then bends round the corner into blackness . |
| 7 | The East Gate had been built thousands of years before at a place where a long ridge ran down into the valley causing it to narrow to a hundred yards or less . |
| 8 | I rowed on a few yards and anchored for the sixth time . |
| 9 | Killion opened fire at a hundred yards and emptied his drum in a series of probing bursts that brought a bloom of flames to the aircraft just as he skimmed over it . |