Sentence examples for barely four blocks from inspiring English sources
The twins, the dog and I arrive at school, barely four blocks from our apartment, 20 minutes late.
A lifelong resident of the island, which is 18 miles long and barely four blocks wide, Ms. Jensen said that while getaway places could still be booked, as the Fourth of July approached, they were moving fast.
Thanks to the small race crowds this year, we were able to park -- legal and free and on city streets -- barely four blocks from the track, but the thought of coming back to a broken-into car was with us much of the day (though things turned out fine; a heavy police presence around the track area, to put it mildly, certainly helps keep crime down - one weekend a year).
Etan was walking to the school bus stop, barely two blocks from his home, the first time he went by himself.
It's all housed at Billings Forge, a complex of rehabilitated industrial buildings with 98 units of mixed-income housing in Frog Hollow, one of the city's poorest neighborhoods, barely two blocks from the Capitol.
"Last week we had lines that were miles long here," said Chris Kraft, co-owner of the 76 station at 920 McLean Avenue in Yonkers, barely two blocks from Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.
"Look, he says we're better off than we were four years ago and I know I am better off, but I don't know if that applies to all," he said, gesturing with his head towards a part of town barely three blocks away where unemployed black men loiter on street corners.
We were barely two blocks from the cathedral but it was hidden from our view.
But in the weeks since Occupy Wall Street was evicted from Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, relations between the demonstrators and Trinity Wall Street, a church barely one block from the New York Stock Exchange, have reached a crossroads.
Fujianese Chinatown, barely four square blocks of century-old tenements and cubbyhole shops, has become a made-to-order enclave.
Mrs. Garman's daughter, Joyce Lilya, said her mother, who had walked two miles daily before the procedure, could now barely walk two blocks.
