Example sentences of "only a few [noun pl] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
| 2 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 3 | LIVER transplant girl Kelly Prosser is only a few smiles away from home , thanks to caring friends . |
| 4 | The cart was only a few feet away but he shrugged his shoulders and headed towards it . |
| 5 | Ground-nests are so well concealed that predators can easily overlook them even when they are only a few feet away . |
| 6 | She was only a few feet away from the buffer when a rat darted in front of her , and although she jerked her head back sharply its wet tail brushed against her cheek as it disappeared into a gap between the two lengths of corroded track . |
| 7 | A cupboard in the cell was moved aside to reveal the rope and the trap only a few feet away beyond an open door . |
| 8 | Space and depth are easily confused ; an animal 20 yards down may appear to be only a few feet away , and in following it down to get a closer look , a diver may suddenly find himself well past prescribed diving depths . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , when Beth was only a few feet away , Matthew raised his head and his eyes met hers . |
| 10 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 11 | To Joseph 's delight the Resident Superior led his entourage to the very front of the audience chamber and the American boy found himself standing only a few feet away from the throne where the Emperor Khai Dinh , a slender , almost feminine figure , sat swathed in a golden robe of richly embroidered silk . |
| 12 | London , meditated Dexter — so many people crammed together , yet knowing so little about the others standing only a few feet away . |
| 13 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 14 | He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away . |
| 15 | Julius walked forward until he was standing only a few feet away . |
| 16 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
| 17 | Rico d'Agostino started up the same kind of place in what used to be Hogan 's Bar only a few blocks away . |
| 18 | And it 's only a few blocks away from your shop . |
| 19 | At Godstowe Priory Dame Frances was only a few minutes away from death . |
| 20 | Somewhere below , only a few minutes away but in another world completely , she was running back to the house , Simon in hot pursuit . |
| 21 | Right in but it 's only a few minutes away . |
| 22 | When nest building , he will return to his nest with bits of weed to cement it into place , even when the diver is only a few inches away . |
| 23 | The end of the bedstead was only a few inches away from the drawers , but in her new tiny condition it appeared to be miles . |
| 24 | Grandson Richard 's ear was only a few inches away . |
| 25 | It baffled her as to why she should feel a tingle in her veins just because Piers Morrison was lying only a few inches away from her . |
| 26 | We were n't allowed to have a we were n't allowed to have a cup of tea in break time no but er we were all on edge you know for fear , if he kicked it it would have scalded his foot and he were , he were only a few inches away from it , and of course he went now what we used to say now nosing around and we should n't have done he had a job to get round because he was |
| 27 | As they stared intently at a cameraman lurking on the bank , a family of mink , unnoticed peered curiously at them , from only a few metres away . |
| 28 | A beam flashed across the runway only a few metres away from the shuttle 's nose . |
| 29 | The creature was only a few metres away now . |
| 30 | The woman stopped , only a few metres away now , and exchanged a glance with Ace before turning slowly to face Defries . |