Example sentences of "few yards before " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few yards before the winning post she found yet more courage and stamina and forced herself in front to win by a length . |
| 2 | On reaching the country road turn left to go along the road for a few yards before taking a right . |
| 3 | These right-angled bends in the road , whatever the date of the enclosure award may be , reflect some stage in the medieval colonisation of the parish when a new furlong , brought in from the waste perhaps in the twelfth or the thirteenth century , cut across the direct path to the next village and forced it to make a sudden turn for a few yards before resuming its onward course . |
| 4 | A few yards before the rue de Fleuve joined the tow-path along the Seine , it was traversed by the Cours Mirabeau , a wide boulevard lined with pollarded lime trees where the daily market was held . |
| 5 | Today he 's kept alive by a machine … he can only walk a few yards before getting out of breath . |