Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And on the stone staircase , a few steps up from Bert 's cubbyhole , Flossie barking asthmatically from inside , lay Bunty Baird , head down , her pretty limbs ugly in disorder within the flimsy disarray of her kimono , one white sandal still on her foot . |
| 4 | They may have gone down the medium wave dial from 10.17 to 8.55 , but their new premises in Ludlow is more than a few steps up from the barn . |
| 5 | The rear door of the car opened and my father was observed to be standing there , a few steps back from the vehicle , gazing steadily into the interior . |
| 6 | and I 've also got one album erm with a few pictures in from when I was in Kenya which was in nineteen eighty four so , you know , if anyone wants to see what I looked like in there I had longer hair and I was wearing a white coat so they 're very welcome . |
| 7 | Instead they were staring with considerable fascination at a fellow traveller who was reclining , fortunately with his back turned , a few seats down from them . |
| 8 | And then she will take a few days off from seeing anybody except me and do a bit of work . |
| 9 | I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office . |
| 10 | First gas started flowing from the field early in November , just a few weeks on from the original target of October . |
| 11 | The two men stood side by side a few yards in from the edge of the treeline , examining the layout of the ground between them and the house . |
| 12 | Elliott moved the car along the street , staying a few yards back from Goldmam who was twenty feet behind Helen and Nicola , his pace increasing as the distance narrowed , timing it nicely . |
| 13 | Her background was a few rungs up from the Jenkinses and that elementary social fact helped to give her a poise in the face of his ever-increasing sureness . |
| 14 | I squeezed the plastic bottle and sent a jet of petrol out of it , over the wick of the lighter , held a few centimetres out from the nozzle by an aluminium tent-peg . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Our cargo of cement was destined for a factory at Tima , a town which lay a few miles back from the riverbank . |
| 17 | They found out from the crew that the ship had been boarded the night before a few miles out from Gdańsk by a Russian naval vessel and that a Polish passenger had been arrested and taken off . |
| 18 | Next came Kendrick 's , the butchers , where Daphne kept an account ; and a few doors on from them was the Italian restaurant with its empty cloth-covered tables . |
| 19 | Seen outside the ‘ homely ’ Bull & Gate pub — just a few doors down from the Town & Country Club where your beloved NME is currently holding its superlative week of talent flaunting — a small sad notice fluttering in the wake of the jostling NICK CAVE-bound hordes , announcing : ‘ HURRAH , onstage tonight at 10.30pm . |
| 20 | She prised Burton out of digs in Streatham to install him on the top floor of her house in Pelham Crescent — just a few doors down from Emlyn Williams . |
| 21 | A few doors down from his own room sat a Co-ordinator of Intelligence whose task it was to try and keep MI6 , 5 and the true military organisations from duplicating each other 's efforts and spitting in each other 's beer . |
| 22 | The tragedy occurred as John Robson , 15 , of Essex Close , Grangetown , Middlesbrough , went to collect paper money owed by Robyn Thrower , 25 , who lived a few doors down from his own . |