Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] a few feet " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | To get ahead of the teams and join them halfway up the 12,000 foot mountain , Fusil flew a few journalists over the forest canopy just a few feet above the top of the trees . |
| 4 | With a screech , the car began to slow as the brakes were applied , and Richmann could clearly see the startled faces of the occupants as it slewed to a halt only a few feet ahead . |
| 5 | A cupboard in the cell was moved aside to reveal the rope and the trap only a few feet away beyond an open door . |
| 6 | And if you can do all that with her husband just a few feet away , blissfully unaware that he 's the butt of the joke , then yours is his house and everything that 's in it , old son . |
| 7 | She could see his face quite clearly , as it was lit by the gas street lamp just a few feet behind him . |
| 8 | For is this not how such a story should begin , with the cliché of the poor and disenfranchised of the earth , huddling for warmth just a few feet away from champagne-swilling plutocrats glorying in their ascendancy ? |
| 9 | At Harrods , Gardiner looked to be rowing a little short forward and Cambridge shot Hammersmith Bridge possibly a few feet ahead . |
| 10 | When he was only forty feet from the Ilyushin , with his right wing now pointing straight up , its tip just a few feet from the airliner 's belly , Duncan pulled back on the left engine and then let the drag pull the plane level . |
| 11 | In no time at all we were standing on a huge patch of snow at the summit of a mountain only a few feet short of a Munro . |