Example sentences of "[prep] a few yard of the " in BNC.
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1 | Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway . |
2 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
3 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
4 | Within a few yards of the school are a filling station , fire station , police HQ , and the entrance to the rail station and Great Eastern Square shopping complex car park . |
5 | Within a few yards of the summit you can find fir clubmoss huperzia selago , and mountain azalea loiseleuria procumbens , both delightful finds for the plant hunter . |