Example sentences of "than a few [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | External Ba 2+ was left out so that uptake would not depolarize the cell more than a few mV from its -90mV resting potential . |
| 2 | Benn , the WBC title-holder , countered : little more than a few inches from his hated foe 's nose , returned the observation in kind . |
| 3 | The male of the species is an unadulterated chauvinist who will not allow the females of his harem to move more than a few feet from him . |
| 4 | The old lady who dare not allow herself to be more than a few yards from the toilet or the old man whose underclothes are frequently wet with urine , may often react by limitation of social life and consequent days of isolation and low morale … |
| 5 | The genius of English painting was turning to the grandeur and the detail of Nature — Turner , Constable , Wright of Derby , Gainsborough — all coming here , sometimes no more than a few yards from the wood in which Mary was now making her way , also driven by the strange , indefinable current of change , as powerful and mysterious as the turn of a tide , which now decreed that the study of man should be through Nature . |
| 6 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 7 | For instance , through most of history , and in most parts of the world ( though not , as it happens , in our modern world ) , individual humans have seldom strayed more than a few miles from their birthplace . |