Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | On tour : security agents and officials shadow Secretary of State Warren Christopher as he takes a few moments off from his talks in Cairo yesterday to pay a visit to the Sphinx |
| 2 | The demonstrators stopped their march , a few metres away from a police line deployed in the temple 's front square . |
| 3 | A beam flashed across the runway only a few metres away from the shuttle 's nose . |
| 4 | We hope that as your Medau News — with its views , information and diary of events — comes through your letter box this September , you will agree that by receiving it by direct mail is a better system than sharing a few copies round from class member to class member . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Two huge human feet were a few inches away from them . |
| 7 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Corbett leaned over , putting his hands on the arms of the chair , his face a few inches away from de Craon 's . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Some were parents enjoying the luxury of a few hours away from their children , who were fully occupied with games and competitions at the miniclub . |
| 12 | Clear skies allowed us to witness , once again , sensational scenery ; the worst storm of the summer only caught us a few hours away from Sasoma . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps you ought to spend a few hours away from the house , ’ Julius suggested , before she had time to stalk off . |
| 14 | Perhaps a few hours away from here would cure the feeling of claustrophobia that was beginning to creep over her . |
| 15 | I love camping and do n't feel that anything can compare with waking up in the morning with the day just a few hours on from dawn , dew still on the grass , so that when you open the tent flap the smell of a new day comes to you with the early morning sun . |
| 16 | ‘ With Pharos , they will be just a few keystrokes away from the information they need to appreciate the detailed impact of community legislation on their businesses . ’ |
| 17 | And it 's only a few blocks away from your shop . |
| 18 | Visitors to the resorts on the Dalmatian coast do not always realise the poverty and backwardness which lie over the mountains only a few kilometres away from the bright lights of Split , Zadar and Šibenik . |
| 19 | LIVER transplant girl Kelly Prosser is only a few smiles away from home , thanks to caring friends . |
| 20 | It appears a few lines away from the plagiarised title of the book . |
| 21 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 22 | At Godstowe Priory Dame Frances was only a few minutes away from death . |
| 23 | they could only snatch a few minutes together from time to time , usually when Daddy came over to Low Fields to look after the cattle , or during the haytiming . |
| 24 | In fact , a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours . |
| 25 | The next thing I do remember is waking up in a very grand house a few streets away from where the robbery took place . |
| 26 | Sometimes she and Henry sat together in the car , a few streets away from their home , munching chocolate bars , while in the back of the Passat huge cardboard boxes of grains , wholewheat cereal , low-fat spreads and calorie-free , taste-free things to stop you dying of cancer awaited Elinor 's approval . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | A few streets away from the English Church , at the corner of Rua Ivens and Rua do Conselheiro beside the municipal gardens , is the Scottish Kirk . |
| 29 | Sharon , 25 , and 27-year-old Hamdi met at Nottingham University — then discovered their parents lived just a few streets away from each other in Birmingham . |
| 30 | 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 . |