Example sentences of "only a few [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew only that they happened there in the darkness and only a few feet from the pavements . |
| 2 | ‘ We encountered a baby common dolphin trapped only a few feet from the surface , its beak and tall flipper hopelessly wrapped in layer upon layer of nylon mesh . |
| 3 | Only a few feet from the side of the ship a sucking swirl dimpled the water ominously . |
| 4 | The main problem in Preston today is the traffic , especially along the Main Street , and the church 's foundations must be suffering , as the tower is only a few feet from a sharp bend in the street . |
| 5 | In fact they have to be trained — starting with distances of only a few feet from , and within sight of , the loft . |
| 6 | He sat only a few feet from the screen , perched on the edge of the bed , a study in confusion and misery . |
| 7 | Well so was Agnes — it was probably her local being only a few blocks from her Georgetown address . |
| 8 | And when we were only a few hours from our turn to life off , we had last-minute visitors . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |
| 11 | White Doves is a Victorian terraced house situated only a few minutes from the famous Minster , in a quiet cul-de-sac . |
| 12 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 13 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
| 14 | ‘ The reason , Ranulf , ’ Corbett announced softly , his face only a few inches from his servant 's , ‘ is that I am trying to find out if , from some eighteen months ago , the ale-masters and tavern-keepers along this highway remember two foreigners , a young woman and her male companion . |
| 15 | He leant forward until his face was only a few inches from hers . |
| 16 | Then , waiting until everyone else had taken their pictures , I crept forward until I was only a few metres from the bird . |
| 17 | In the seventeenth century a weaver called Buffarot led a local revolt , and was broken on the wheel only a few metres from where we 're sitting . ’ |
| 18 | The weed was only a few metres from where Ell had slept . |
| 19 | These include Buckle Island , just off the Antarctic coast , and Mts Erebus and Terror , only a few kilometres from Scott 's original base camp , from which he set out on his last heroic journey . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was holding the letter only a few centimetres from his eyes . |
| 22 | Days later , we were only a few bio-hours from the Vadinamian system when we received a call from Mala 's pet FedPol , Chertro . |
| 23 | Only a few tracks from the current album ‘ Zooropa ’ were aired . |
| 24 | The Coppergate bear commemorates the city 's Viking connection which stretch back 1,000 years and the Guy Fawkes bear , complete with its own poem , is a reminder that the man who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament was born only a few doors from the shop . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't you realise that the enemy are only a few yards from these positions ? |
| 26 | Some distance away , only a few yards from the vast unfinished Anglican cathedral , he found lodgings ( 13 St James 's Road ) with a spinsterish landlady who by origin was a Northern Irish Protestant . |
| 27 | At the eastern end of the Ludwigstrasse the street opened out into a small square below the towering walls of the Herzogschloss , a massive fortification dating from the fifteenth century and set back only a few yards from the Danube . |
| 28 | Kohl , on the other hand , will have to live with a politically obtuse gesture that is being compared to his appearance with American President Ronald Reagan , in May 1985 , at a Bitburg cemetery where they laid remembrance wreaths only a few yards from rows of graves of SS soldiers . |
| 29 | He worked out there were one hundred and seventy-three different ways of getting to the library from the dining room and fifty-two different ways of getting from his dormitory to the nearest toilet , which was only a few yards from the dormitory itself . |
| 30 | By this time we were only a few yards from him and the car had almost stopped . |