Example sentences of "[adv] a few inches " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 25 times . |
| 2 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 25 times , holding each raise for 1 second . |
| 3 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 30 times , holding each raise for 1 second . |
| 4 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 30 times , holding each raise for 1 second . |
| 5 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 35 times , holding each raise for 1 second . |
| 6 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 35 times . |
| 7 | The decorations shone on the walls and I loosened the buttons of my tunic and slipped my tie down a few inches . |
| 8 | At first the simple machines available could only detect down a few inches , and — amongst other operating difficulties — encounters with tufts of grass caused them to constantly give off false signals . |
| 9 | When nest building , he will return to his nest with bits of weed to cement it into place , even when the diver is only a few inches away . |
| 10 | Bernhard Langer got the first blow in by hitting a great second shot over the Swilcan Burn at the first hole to only a few inches , about a foot I guess , and birdied to go one nearer the lead . |
| 11 | Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective . |
| 12 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 13 | Curl your toes back and with tummy pulled in , raise both arms towards your toes , lifting your head and shoulders only a few inches off the floor . |
| 14 | Carved out of the rock and only a few inches wide , they require a certain agility . |
| 15 | The end of the bedstead was only a few inches away from the drawers , but in her new tiny condition it appeared to be miles . |
| 16 | Grandson Richard 's ear was only a few inches away . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Some will show you what they are made of early on , when only a few inches ( centimetres ) high , others will be more reluctant , and will make you wait . |
| 19 | The curtains were only a few inches apart and he pushed them aside so that the room was suddenly filled with light . |
| 20 | It baffled her as to why she should feel a tingle in her veins just because Piers Morrison was lying only a few inches away from her . |
| 21 | He was taller than she by only a few inches , and slenderly built , an athletic lightweight in a heather tweed sportscoat and grey cords . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | If you have dropped the computer , maybe only a few inches , and the failures started after this , then give your local repair man a ring for a quotation without delay or you could write a file to the disk which can not be read back by another machine , or your own for that matter , when the heads have been realigned to their correct setting . |
| 24 | He leant forward until his face was only a few inches from hers . |
| 25 | The woodcuts are only a few inches square , and defy the artists ' desire for detail and extravagance . |
| 26 | She was only about five feet tall , if that , and the kid , a big healthy specimen , seemed to be only a few inches off the floor . |
| 27 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 28 | The design was complicated , with a serpentine pattern of dark blue and white with touches of black , and whoever was knitting it had completed only a few inches of ribbed welt . |
| 29 | We were n't allowed to have a we were n't allowed to have a cup of tea in break time no but er we were all on edge you know for fear , if he kicked it it would have scalded his foot and he were , he were only a few inches away from it , and of course he went now what we used to say now nosing around and we should n't have done he had a job to get round because he was |
| 30 | There were only a few inches |