Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] hundred yards [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
| 2 | They went there in the middle of that morning , passing through the gate in the garden wall and along the cliff-path for a few hundred yards and then on to the golf-course . |
| 3 | This morning it was starts from the state boat ; many a race has been won in the first hundred yards or so , and Oxford , as always , are coached and prepared for everything . |
| 4 | Even when the foremost ranks reached the ford-end and without pause turned in , to splash across the two hundred yards or so of shallows , there was no immediate change , the enemy obviously taken by surprise . |
| 5 | She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field . |