1.   A colleague stumbled on the couple romping in a first-floor office just yards from the council chamber.

2.   The train came to a stop just yards from the barrier.

3.   Her attacker was staying with his parents just yards from her house, Liverpool Crown Court was told.

4.   A great shawl of green, willow and oak, wraps the water in its calm just yards from a bustling parkway.

5.   He also said he had seen spent cartridges on the ground just yards from the graves.

6.   He saves money by living with Mexican friends in Brooklyn in a house just yards off the elevated expressway in Clinton Hill.

7.   He was in a front pew just yards from the pope during the speech.

8.   Rumsfeld and his party, while aboard the helicopter protected by two Apache helicopter gunships, also dropped into a hilltop outpost just yards from the Macedonia border.

9.   They stood on a levee just yards from the smoldering cargo.