Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] from the " in BNC.
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1 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
2 | Then , waiting until everyone else had taken their pictures , I crept forward until I was only a few metres from the bird . |
3 | Except for a few stereotyped responses from the wilder churches — Pastor David Powell of the Rotherham Pentecostal Church actually banned gays from his services — and a few jibes from the local National Front , we were always treated politely , listened to with interest and generally well received . |
4 | Later vehicles have a braided earth lead running to the body a few inches from the motor . |
5 | After returning from a week away I found the pond to be deep black ; the fish were visible a few inches from the surface . |
6 | by installing the bath a few inches from the wall , Bill was able to create a tiled ledge for soaps and sponges . |
7 | Practise this until you can bring the model to a stop , in the hover , a few inches from the ground and just in front of you . |
8 | Shifting slightly , he drilled a new indentation a few inches from the original . |
9 | As she stood on the quayside looking , a little yappy dog scuttered up from the cabin snarling at her bare toes a few inches from the deck , and a woman in maroon trousers and a yellow and orange flowered bikini top bulged over with fiery red flesh looked crossly at Peony . |
10 | A few groups from the United States have reported some success in short term cultures of either normal human gall bladder cells or with well differentiated gall bladder adenocarcinoma lines . |
11 | It is a common fault , particularly in criminal law , to give the impression that the answer is based wholly upon common sense and a few gleanings from the Sunday newspapers . |
12 | We 've had a few scares from the lasers so far , but when we get on the scene there 's nothing to see . ’ |
13 | The new dynasty , the German and Protestant House of Hanover , had a few scares from the Scottish end of the realm , notably the 1715 Rebellion in favour of the Catholic Stuart exile , James . |
14 | Before that , in 1854 , Bradbury and Evans had published a series of twenty-one plates with the title A few leaves from the Newly-Invented Process of Nature-Printing . |
15 | Transfer them to a small tube or box containing a few leaves from the same plant and take them home . |
16 | A few snippets from the Feedback Sheets on Care Sunday give us some flavour of what has happened in different parishes across the Diocese e.g : |
17 | The great centre of the rich Pays d'Auge , also cider and Calvados country , is Vimoutiers , only a few kilometres from the cheese villages of both Camembert and Livarot . |
18 | It is true that the National Deaf Club attracted a few members from the provinces , but by and large , its membership has been confined mostly to London and its environs . |
19 | Eduard 's gentle insistence that we try a few gems from the cellars of Veuve Cliquot roughly translated into six bottles which rapidly topped up our reservoirs of ‘ entente cordiale . ’ |
20 | We recognise the face and words of Robert J. Oppenheimer , leader of the Manhattan Project which gave America the atomic bomb : " I remembered a few lines from the Hindu Scripture , the Bhagavad-Gita : " Now I am become death , the destroyer of worlds . " " |
21 | It will be enough to quote , in illustration of opacity , a few lines from the beginning of a novel noted for its linguistic singularity : Titus is seven . |
22 | It 's set in its own park with beautiful rolling gardens leading down to the road which separates the hotel from its own private beach , yet is only a few minutes from the centre . |
23 | This very friendly gasthaus is ideally situated next to the Hahnenkamm cable car , and is just a few minutes from the town centre . |
24 | We are situated in beautiful countryside just south of Newent , a few minutes from the M.50 . |
25 | When it 's just a few minutes from the face , the thick cloud filling the valley gently wells up to lock in the cold . |
26 | Just a few minutes from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre ( the car park is just 500 yards away ) , this typically Victorian house takes its name from the sequoia tree that graces the pretty lawned gardens . |
27 | White Doves is a Victorian terraced house situated only a few minutes from the famous Minster , in a quiet cul-de-sac . |
28 | The hotel is just a few minutes from the pleasant sandy beach and close to the bustling central market . |
29 | A few minutes from the West End , down Queensferry Street , lies the picturesque VILLAGE OF DEAN , a surprising sight in the middle of a city , huddled in the deep valley beneath the DEAN BRIDGE , one of Telford 's finest works . |
30 | This homely and very Tyrolean four-star hotel is close to the golf course , and just a few minutes from the resort centre . |