Example sentences of "few paces from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The worm-eaten stairs were only a few paces from the open door but she did n't give them a thought . |
| 3 | Sharpe was just a few paces from his enemy . |
| 4 | Two howitzer shells exploded a few paces from his horse , both blasts beginning small fires among the rye . |
| 5 | In a similar line of argument , Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 14 August 1898 ) viewed the Hooligan panic as an indictment of the hypocrisy of a civilisation that took ‘ so painful an interest about moral handkerchiefs and hymn books for the barbarians of the wild Soudan ’ while turning a blind eye towards ‘ the far wilder barbarians they may find within a few paces from their own street-doors ’ . |
| 6 | I should have said that these houses are all close to the road , perhaps a few paces from the pavement . |
| 7 | Then he sprang , bearing her down into the trampled snow only a few paces from Yet 's body . |
| 8 | 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 . |