Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] yards and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked up the main street for a hundred yards and came to a road off on his right labelled Buller 's Hill . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It goes straight for a few yards and then bends round the corner into blackness . |
| 5 | I rowed on a few yards and anchored for the sixth time . |
| 6 | 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 . |