Example sentences of "couple of [noun] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any baby soother should be played at least a couple of feet away from her head . |
| 2 | He finally stopped when he was just a couple of feet away from her . |
| 3 | Face turned on one arm , she risked a glance along the muscular length of the body stretched a couple of feet away from her , the briefest black trunks accentuating the dusky , even tan of his skin . |
| 4 | hmm — and the trip back to london after the geordie game was not a happy one — trains arriving a couple of hours late from scotland due to snow or whatever … |
| 5 | When he was a couple of streets away from the pensione Aldo tore up the letter into pieces as small as he could manage and dropped them in the gutter . |
| 6 | ‘ That girl was killed a couple of streets away from here the night before last . |
| 7 | Only the queen of the social columns , recruited a couple of years previously from Calgary , sat calmly at her desk , her silver-tipped fingers delicately feeling the pulse of the city 's social life . |
| 8 | Brian Clough has already made an inquiry for the player he tried to sign a couple of years ago from Arsenal and , if Leeds go out of the European Cup tonight , a rapid departure could be on the cards . |
| 9 | I 've been a sportsman all my life and after a couple of years away from the game on a daily basis , I 'm happy to be coming back . |
| 10 | Standing 16.3hh , Ambassador was given plenty of time to mature , only beginning his competitive career at the start of the current season , and testimony to his brilliance is the fact that he is only a couple of points away from being Advanced . |
| 11 | And he is no stranger to Rodney Parade , having spent a couple of seasons there from 1985 , moving from Newbridge , before flirting briefly with London Welsh . |
| 12 | And er take a couple of steps away from the corner you could n't see your a thing , so we were more or less stuck where we where . |
| 13 | Yes , er he took a couple of steps away from the bed , er then I told him to lower himself down onto his knees and then eventually lower himself down onto his chest , down onto his front . |
| 14 | Going to grammar school really made me isolated It was only a couple of miles away from where I lived but that 's a long way when you 're only 11 — years-old and all your mates from junior school had gone to the local comprehensive round the corner . |
| 15 | A COUPLE of miles away from Westminster , the Gulf war is being debated with even greater passion than in the Commons itself . |
| 16 | I have not got enough land for the horses ' longer holidays , but with friendly farmers around I am able to rent two big ‘ safe ’ fields which are a couple of miles away from home . |
| 17 | When István Széchenyi Proposed the regulation of Hungary 's rivers , he probably did not realise that his suggestion would eventually lead , later in the century , to the three little islands in the Danube , just a couple of miles upstream from central Budapest , being girdled together by a retaining wall . |
| 18 | Perhaps he is referring to some figures that were leaked a couple of weeks ago from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland — a reference to 44 inward investment jobs . |
| 19 | He put in 37 appearances in our final Southern League season , and again scored a couple of goals away from home — at Luton ( Palace won 4–1 ) and at QPR ( we won 3–2 ) . |