Example sentences of "few [num] [noun pl] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The troops , however , treat the grey walls of Forkhill , a joint Royal Ulster Constabulary and British Army base a few hundreds metres from the Irish border , as their refuge . |
| 2 | The man , pictured in yesterday 's Sunday Mirror wearing a thick black false beard , also claims he was paid only a few thousand pounds from the massive haul and is now broke . |
| 3 | By the end of the Palaeocene , only a few million years from the Cretaceous extinction of the giant reptiles , there were representatives of many of the living mammalian orders , including , for example , the primates ( the order to which man belongs ) , the carnivores ( cats dogs , and most living predators ) and the rodents ( rats , mice ) . |
| 4 | By the time we meet Odd-Knut coming back to find us we are only a few hundred metres from the camp . |
| 5 | The Platoon Sergeant loads the necessary extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment into the back of a vehicle and they speed off The accident has occurred a few hundred metres from the Turkish depot in which ammunition is stored for the Force . |
| 6 | He has just bought a neo-classical villa in Hamburg , a few hundred metres from the house where he was born . |
| 7 | The ship , large and grey , sat only a few hundred metres from the assault force . |
| 8 | Ian Charlesworth and Arthur Goddard live just a few hundred metres from the busy M40 in the village of Fencot . |
| 9 | The first chain starts off right down in the Antarctic , a few hundred kilometres from the South Pole . |
| 10 | Iraq is after all only a few hundred miles from the Soviet Union 's own ( Muslim-dominated ) southern border . |
| 11 | JUST a few hundred yards from the palace area of Castle Hill stands the Matthias Church . |
| 12 | As the young boy sped off to reassure his worried employer , the two constables walked the few hundred yards from the police house to the Chequers . |
| 13 | He was in the buying department at Schering , the chemical company based a few hundred yards from the sector border in the district of Wedding . |
| 14 | But the Sperrbrecher , unidentified before the raid although moored a few hundred yards from the east jetty ( see diagram p. 41 ) was a strong ship . |
| 15 | The farmers threatened to sue IBM and one , Jack Briscoe , whose farm was only a few hundred yards from the mine entrance , claimed to have lost 40 animals in the past ten years from toxic lead fallout from the mine 's operations . |
| 16 | By the following Tuesday , Geraldine Hogan , whose family lived a few hundred yards from the lake , was spitting up blood . |
| 17 | ‘ I can see I do n't need to explain how this parcel of land is only a few hundred yards from the newly designated railway lines . |
| 18 | The victim , who 's in her twenties , was grabbed as she walked through woodland a few hundred yards from the crowds in Park . |
| 19 | Meanwhile in the supermarket car park only a few hundred yards from the scene of the rape , women expressed their shock at what had happened : |
| 20 | She was on her way home from a party … walking back through the city to her lodgings at Somerville college a few hundred yards from the Memorial . |
| 21 | Extra staff have been drafted in to take patients the few hundred yards from the hutted wards of Ormskirk Hospital which were originally built to house Canadian forces during World War II . |
| 22 | Oil was once one of Burma 's major industries , producing 800,000 gallons of petroleum a day , now daily production is a few hundred gallons from the old hand-dug wells . |