Example sentences of "[be] only [art] few yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't you realise that the enemy are only a few yards from these positions ? |
| 2 | Every time he went into one of those phone-booths , he had a mental image of something going wrong , of a faster-than-usual trace , of a plain-clothes policeman being only a few yards away , taking the alarm on his personal radio and walking up to the phone-booth . |
| 3 | Fred Klepner had been in and out of both Mark 's and Pat Muldoon 's offices , which were only a few yards apart , like an eager beaver . |
| 4 | By this time we were only a few yards from him and the car had almost stopped . |
| 5 | The gates were only a few yards ahead and I staggered up to them and halted among my groaning comrades . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's only a few yards away from the shop , so you could easily keep an eye on both . ’ |
| 7 | He worked out there were one hundred and seventy-three different ways of getting to the library from the dining room and fifty-two different ways of getting from his dormitory to the nearest toilet , which was only a few yards from the dormitory itself . |
| 8 | She was only a few yards away . |
| 9 | It was only a few yards to the water . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I was only a few yards away when the car came round the bend and hit the kerb . |
| 11 | home but it was only a few yards anyway from . |
| 12 | The dragon , carrying the weight of two men , was only a few yards above the grass . |