Example sentences of "a few yards [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn right after 1/2 mile into Kyber car park , then turn left after 30 yds through gate ( but first detour ahead a few yards for view of Glasgow ) on track signposted Craigend Castle ( a ) . |
| 2 | Public perception of the war in Europe was of a senseless conflict fought out in the mud and filth of Flanders , with thousands killed each day for the sake of only a few yards of territory soon lost in the next offensive . |
| 3 | After the 1915 offensives , the troops had come to believe that if Pétain called for an attack there must be some point to it , that it would not be a senseless sacrifice of lives in the way of those over-ambitious generals , out to gain recognition from the conquest at any price of a few yards of enemy trench . |
| 4 | Well , she thought , it wo n't be difficult to judge how right I am , if I pay out a few yards of line for him . |
| 5 | A few yards of material have changed her from one person into another . |
| 6 | To our relief we found the seas calm enough off the normal east landing at Geodha Stoth and dropped anchor a few yards off shore . |
| 7 | On bad days it rains and the mist covers everything in silence — you can see only a few yards in front of you and , if you wander from the road , can easily get lost . |
| 8 | A yellow hammer ‘ fluttered in short fears ’ a few yards in front of us . |
| 9 | According to Captain Trentham 's report , he was picked up with a single bullet wound in his right hand while lying in the mud only a few yards in front of his own trench . |