Example sentences of "only a few [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 31 | The moorland and seemingly endless miles of coastal path ( accessible only a few yards from the hotel ) beckon many walkers . |
| 32 | The first he knew that something was up was when one of the first arrivals had suddenly tripped and fallen in the undergrowth , cursing softly as he did so , only a few yards from the hide . |
| 33 | " Oh boy , " breathed Chuck Sherman , gazing longingly at the impenetrable green wall of tropical foliage slipping past only a few yards from the ship 's rail , " this is going to make the mountains of West Virginia seem a bit tame . |
| 34 | Harry Poat left on his mission and Stirling split the remaining force into two groups which would travel independently to a further rendezvous at Bir Soltane , only a few miles from the Mareth line . |
| 35 | It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house . |
| 36 | We were only a few miles from the coast , but in the days before we had our own car , visits to the sea were exciting expeditions . |
| 37 | Green 's memorial tablet is in the church of St Mary the Virgin at Monken Hadley , only a few miles from the College 's Hawkshead campus . |
| 38 | These stories occur world wide , so I will limit myself to two which are told of sites on the Yorkshire Wolds only a few miles from where I live . |
| 39 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 40 | In 1989 , living in a motel between Santa Cruz and Watsonville only a few miles from the epicentre of the Loma Prieta earthquake , I had walked with Frank Bardacke in its aftermath down the streets of Watsonville and counted score and score of the old Maybeck homes , tossed off their piers , broken-backed , red-tagged , finished . |
| 41 | As a direct consequence of that success , we believe that the inaugural World Sevens , taking place only a few miles from the company headquarters in Perth and with its strong Scottish flavour through its base at Murrayfield , ideally suited for The Famous Grouse . |
| 42 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
| 43 | The new location could be only a few miles from the present site — especially if one of the company 's priorities is to retain existing staff . |
| 44 | Only a few miles from the coincidentally placed Goonhilly , a memorial commemorates the site of Guglielmo Marconi 's first transmitted wireless signals to County Cork in April 1901 , heralding the start of modern communication . |
| 45 | The village of Artagnan , indeed , lies only a few miles from Montaner , to the north-east ; and it was one of the seventeenth-century counts of this Artagnan whom Alex Andre pumas , once again , took and elevated into his fictional hero . |
| 46 | Cerveteri is built near the extensive necropolis which served the Etruscan city of Caere , one of their largest towns , near the sea and only a few miles from Rome . |
| 47 | With four more rounds to go King can not be caught but he was still disappointed when he spoke afterwards about a race during which victory was snatched from his grasp only a few miles from the finish . |
| 48 | all the way , you look one way as far as you can see and you , when you go to Gibraltar you 're only a few miles from Africa |
| 49 | Visitors to the city may easily fail to chance upon Portugal Place which remains an oasis of timeless calm only a few paces from the crowded pavements of the city centre . |
| 50 | The worm-eaten stairs were only a few paces from the open door but she did n't give them a thought . |
| 51 | Then he sprang , bearing her down into the trampled snow only a few paces from Yet 's body . |
| 52 | It was when he reached the ground floor and was only a few paces from the door leading to the basement that things started to go wrong . |