Example sentences of "within a hundred [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road .
2 It was hours before the first students managed to permeate through the streets and come to within a hundred yards of the Mar Girgis .
3 Others who made it to within a hundred yards of the bridge … count themselves lucky to have survived …
4 Its guidlines state that the bypass would have to be within a hundred yards of the road or the conditions intolerable before the property would be bought , though the Judge Mr Justice Latham said that in his view those guidelines were a shambles .
5 Closely similar creatures called sea pens grow in the sea within a hundred miles of the Flinders Ranges .
6 Within a hundred years of the missionaries ' arrival many English men and women had enthusiastically adopted the monasticism which was considered the purest form of the Christian life and the surest way to salvation , and which had spread throughout western Europe in the fifth and sixth centuries .
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