Example sentences of "a few [adj] [noun] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 2 | The spray from the falls is so dense that you can not peer into it and you must rely on logic to believe that it is the same water that makes the river that snakes along the gorge a few hundred metres away . |
| 3 | My cousin Ibrahim lived in a two-storey house a few hundred metres away , just beyond the Tel Aviv–Jaffa port railway line . |
| 4 | During the space of a few hours , a one-metre thickness of ash accumulated in some parts of the town which were only a few hundred metres away from the active vent and many house roofs collapsed under the weight . |
| 5 | Only a few hundred metres away , the ship was now just a bubbling silver pool . |
| 6 | American helicopters hovered near the Panamanian Defence Forces headquarters , and US soldiers in combat gear took up positions a few hundred yards away to block a road leading to the canal . |
| 7 | While these constitutional niceties were being debated , a crowd of students gathered in the rain a few hundred yards away in Wenceslas Square to demonstrate support for Mr Havel . |
| 8 | A few hundred yards away at Conservative Central Office the mood has been more subdued , though not defeatist . |
| 9 | When you get back to the Club Zorna Hotel , the action is still going on , whilst at the International Nightclub just a few hundred yards away , the night 's just beginning — and I went to Yugoslavia thinking it would be restful ! |
| 10 | Wilkins ' response was to set up another mill only a few hundred yards away , this time using steam power . |
| 11 | A scattering of cottages , an idyllically set Tudor Manor house and , a few hundred yards away , a church dating from Norman times ; all this in a peaceful valley of a tributary of the Looe River . |
| 12 | He saw Mr Vaughan cross Cadhay Bridge a few hundred yards away , heard the calves in fields beyond the river calling to their mothers , and then , as the storms of an October night closed round , he closed his eyes and tried to sleep . |
| 13 | Each night as he lay in bed he would imagine himself catching the train from the local station — such reveries usually assumed the initial achievement of getting outside the camp — or stalking the frontier guards among the mountains with Switzerland a few hundred yards away across the snow … |
| 14 | The season began in spectacular fashion when , within the first 20 minutes after the helicopter landed , Keizo Yanai , of the Institute of Polar Programs in Tokyo , discovered two stony meteorites lying a few hundred yards away . |
| 15 | He was about to call Marian to his side when a movement a few hundred yards away where the forest and the Waste met caught his eye . |
| 16 | If he did , he would have to abandon the Volvo , always parked a few hundred yards away , and escape on foot . |
| 17 | One British couple living just a few hundred yards away were amazed by the news . |
| 18 | I had mixed feelings then because the last time one had been that close on the ground was in 1940 during the Battle when one passed over my head at Allington , crashing a few hundred yards away . |
| 19 | Towards the eastern end of the Republic of Panama , a few hundred yards away from a tiny Darién settlement known as Santa Fé , is a small somewhat dilapidated hut , roofed against the rains with sheets of rusting corrugated iron . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , a few hundred yards away , across the harbour is Belfast 's other traditional employer , Short Brothers , the engineering and defence firm . |
| 21 | A few hundred yards away behind the site is a cliff face , down which a stream tumbles . |
| 22 | And therefore grumbling couples complain in cars on their way to Harley Street from the Home Counties and beg one another not to let them drink too much : therefore Esther and Alix meet and laugh on a street corner a few hundred yards away : therefore stepchildren muster and stepparents-in-law assemble : therefore Liz Headleand 's mother sits alone , ever alone untelephoned , distant , incomprehending , incomprehended , remote , mad , long mad , imprisoned , secret , silent , silenced , listening to the silence of her house . |
| 23 | On the day Colonel Hope announced himself in the yard of the Queen 's Head in Keswick , Coleridge , a few hundred yards away , was writing a letter which included the sentence ‘ I have always found a stretched and anxious frame of mind favourable to depths of pleasurable impression . ’ |
| 24 | He stuck one thumb out when the car was still a few hundred yards away . |
| 25 | Christine Mills lived a few hundred yards away . |
| 26 | There was an ancient church called Fablan Fawr a few hundred yards away from his house , so Beverley called his new house Fablan Fawr too . |
| 27 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 28 | ‘ On another occasion a taxi driver wanted $5 to drive me to my hotel … which we could both see quite clearly a few hundred yards away ! ’ |
| 29 | Anna was in the kitchen preparing vegetables , and from where she stood at the sink she could look across the water to Falmouth , a few hundred yards away : the Greenbank Hotel , the Royal Yacht Club , the new flats on the Packet Quays , then the backs of High Street and the pier . |
| 30 | So we 're having to have shutters with a central hinge and we 're fortunate again in York we 've got a wonderful erm prototype , only a few hundred yards away in the Minster . |