Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [num] [noun] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | That sighting had been only twelve miles south of this crossroads , yet now there was no sign of any Frenchmen . |
| 2 | ‘ Am not I Anne Duchess of York , guest within the Tower to the lady Alianor Woodville , cousin by marriage to the queen-dowager ? |
| 3 | Oh , I think they 're about two pound bag of that ? |
| 4 | From the track plot deduced by the accident investigation team from the aircraft 's flight-data recorder , the Vanguard appears to have been nearly 5 miles south-west of the MN at the time this position report was made . |
| 5 | In the early 1870s there were only 23,000 people west of Lake Superior . |
| 6 | At the time of the suspension of military action the left flank of the allied attacking force had reached the Euphrates and allied units were only 250 km south of Baghdad . |
| 7 | To get back on the track he flew on 270° for 20 minutes , but was then informed they were still one degree north of track . |
| 8 | For example , Niagara Falls by road is only 1½ hours South-West of Toronto , whereas a trip up North to ride the Polar Express will almost certainly mean an overnight stay . |
| 9 | A new hotel built to high standards , the Travellers Beach is just eleven kilometres north of Mombasa . |
| 10 | In recent years , even the paddle steamers linking Hull and Barton have been made obsolete by the building of the magnificent single span Humber Bridge , completed in 1980 — the north bank approach of which is just three miles east of North Ferriby . |
| 11 | Vaudemanges is just 2 kilometres south of Billy-le-Grand . |
| 12 | Trépail is just 3 kilometres north of the grand cru villages , Bouzy and Ambonnay , on the southeastern extremity of the Montagne de Reims . |
| 13 | It 's just two miles north of Chievely and the police are on the scene at the moment . |
| 14 | I think the main thing is there 's about six hours sort of realistically speaking of really good quality hours to be on your B M S set during the day , and just to sort of add up the hours that you are actually on the phone making outgoing calls , sort of brings it home to you . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's about eighty miles north of here . |
| 16 | It had been in touch with air control in Athens and had been instructed to alter course over the island of Amorgós — that 's about forty miles north-east of here — and proceed on a roughly north-north-west course . |
| 17 | There are various roads that you can take to get from Bayonne to Biarritz , which is about five miles south-west of Bayonne . |
| 18 | The furnace pond still survives and is about 200 yards east of Oxenhall Church , near the remains of the Hereford and Gloucester Canal . |
| 19 | Pavlovo is about 300 miles east of Moscow and has a history of metal craft . |
| 20 | Policiano is about 6 miles south of this and just beyond it is Cortona , one of Italy 's oldest and most charming towns . |
| 21 | I mean Preston is about twenty miles south of er where we are but I know that there are gardens north of where we are that do grow good peaches but what they do they cover the er plants during the early spring round about February time and they cover it with very fine ne net , that 's all they need to do with it just cover it up when the flowers are out , make sure that they lift it off every now and again to do the pollinating , get them set and then when the frosts have gone take the net off . |
| 22 | It is around 22 miles east of Cheltenham , 20 miles west of Oxford and 18 miles north of Swindon . |
| 23 | It was almost as if he was doing me a favour by not sentencing me for more , even though it was only one specimen charge of supplying . |
| 24 | This may reflect King Henry 's more immediate concern with rebels whose main fortress was only fifteen miles south-west of Poitiers , or it may be that Count William of Angoulême was overshadowed by the more vigorous personality of the new head of the house of Lusignan , Geoffrey de Lusignan . |
| 25 | This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries . |
| 26 | When the engines stopped , the Forfarshire was about five kilometres east of St Abbs Head , in Scotland . |
| 27 | It was about twenty-five miles west of Paris , set in several acres of grounds with tall trees , and it was not at all what she had expected . |
| 28 | Assamaka , the principal entry point to and from Algeria , was about 800 km north-west of Niamey , the capital . |