Example sentences of "a few [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only sources so far identified in Europe comprise a few boulders from Piedmont and Switzerland . |
| 2 | A few quotations from his correspondence to friends during the years before its appearance will serve to introduce the main interests and traits in question : " Three things are my relaxations , but infrequent ones : my Schopenhauer , Schumann 's music , and solitary walks " ( from 1866 ) ; " It is only too natural that … concentrating on a particular field of knowledge all day long should somewhat blunt one 's untrammelled receptivity and attack the philosophic sense at its root . |
| 3 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 4 | Then , waiting until everyone else had taken their pictures , I crept forward until I was only a few metres from the bird . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | The weed was only a few metres from where Ell had slept . |
| 7 | For the 3 weeks I 've been there , there 's been shelling every night just a few metres from where we were . |
| 8 | Nesad Causevic , a policeman , was changing shift last November when a grenade blew up a few metres from his car . |
| 9 | Except for a few stereotyped responses from the wilder churches — Pastor David Powell of the Rotherham Pentecostal Church actually banned gays from his services — and a few jibes from the local National Front , we were always treated politely , listened to with interest and generally well received . |
| 10 | This Australian CD is a class introduction to Parsons and his time , from his homespun days with The Shilos , through to the genesis of country rock and closing on some hard-to-get live takes , plus a few epics from ‘ Grievous Angel ’ — his final , whacked-out testimony . |
| 11 | ‘ There have been quite a few calls from readers … |
| 12 | She switched on the bedroom radio , tuning to her new station 's waveband — her competitive curiosity had prompted her to attempt an assessment of the English-language opposition earlier — and discovering a laid-back DJ playing jazz and fusion between taking a few calls from night-owl listeners , their character common around the world — shift-workers , troubled or lonely insomniacs , late-night revellers and cramming students . |
| 13 | ‘ We get a few calls from people who have lost heavy vehicles which ca n't be recovered by civilian companies . ’ |
| 14 | She recognised a few faces from Amelia 's party , but most of the dead people were strangers . |
| 15 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 16 | Later vehicles have a braided earth lead running to the body a few inches from the motor . |
| 17 | After returning from a week away I found the pond to be deep black ; the fish were visible a few inches from the surface . |
| 18 | by installing the bath a few inches from the wall , Bill was able to create a tiled ledge for soaps and sponges . |
| 19 | Practise this until you can bring the model to a stop , in the hover , a few inches from the ground and just in front of you . |
| 20 | Benn , the WBC title-holder , countered : little more than a few inches from his hated foe 's nose , returned the observation in kind . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | An open razor , the blade thick with clotted blood lay on top of it , a few inches from his right hand . |
| 23 | The Collector found he could hardly breathe in the middle of this appalling sandwich ; a few inches from his nose the face of a dead sepoy grinned at him with sparkling teeth ; the Collector had the odd sensation that the man 's eyes were watching his efforts with amusement . |
| 24 | Shifting slightly , he drilled a new indentation a few inches from the original . |
| 25 | In no time we were moored securely a few inches from a slippery ledge , surging in a gentle swell with ropes secured to convenient rock spurs . |
| 26 | Cranston smiled and leaned closer , his face a few inches from that of the apothecary . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | As she stood on the quayside looking , a little yappy dog scuttered up from the cabin snarling at her bare toes a few inches from the deck , and a woman in maroon trousers and a yellow and orange flowered bikini top bulged over with fiery red flesh looked crossly at Peony . |
| 29 | The army occupies an area of land the size of Torness turbine hall with each soldier standing stiffly to attention a few inches from his neighbours . |
| 30 | He leant forward until his face was only a few inches from hers . |