Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' drive " in BNC.
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1 | Here , they can combine a professional career with the joys of rural living : Richard 's practice as a chartered surveyor is an easy eight minutes ' drive away , just long enough to ‘ listen to the traffic reports and think of all those people on the M25 ! ’ |
2 | They love walking the dogs on Bude beach , 30 minutes ' drive away . |
3 | Pattaya is approximately 2 hours ' drive from Bangkok on the Gulf of Siam . |
4 | The landlord , a fund of local knowledge , recommended a visit to Captain Cook 's house in the village of Staithes and a trip to the North York Moors steam railway — both a few minutes ' drive away . |
5 | A few minutes ' drive from the NEC , M42 , M6 and Birmingham International Airport . |
6 | The excellent road system of the greater Belfast region means that Jordanstown is merely a few minutes ' drive from the capital , allowing students to take advantage of the social life and the living accommodation available in the city . |
7 | The excellent road system of the greater Belfast region means that Jordanstown is merely a few minutes ' drive from the capital , allowing students to take advantage of the social life and the living accommodation available in the city . |
8 | A few minutes ' drive and we were taken into a building . |
9 | Local shopping and other amenities are close at hand and the sea is only a few minutes ' drive away , when the tide is in . |
10 | The house was only a few minutes ' drive away from the river . |
11 | Or else if you 're driving up to Stranraer it 's a , it 's a good three and half hours ' drive plus your petrol . |
12 | Mountain ranges , the desert and Palm Springs are just a few hours ' drive away . |
13 | Only a few hours ' drive by dirt highway from Serra Pelada , the government was pouring investment into the construction of an immense mining project called Carajas , a mountain range of solid iron . |
14 | Another is at Lavenham , 10 minutes ' drive up the road . |
15 | The Sandyport project is situated on New Providence , not far from Nassau and only 10 minutes ' drive from the international airport . |
16 | No complaints here : the TV and shower were both in good working order ; and what an attractive , peaceful place to stay — only 45 minutes ' drive from Dieppe , and handy for visits to Rouen or Le Havre . |
17 | The site was about three hours ' drive away from London and also had good communications with the north of the country . |
18 | Witnesses have put the women at the Churchill Clinic , in Lambeth , south London , at that time — at least 11 minutes ' drive from Alison 's Wandsworth flat . |
19 | Blakey Ridge and Hutton-le-Hole with the outdoor Ryedale Folk Museum are at the heart of the moor , and only thirty-five minutes ' drive from the farm . |
20 | Mrs Zamzam 's land should have been only 25 minutes ' drive across the international frontier . |
21 | We started house-hunting and found the perfect place on a new rural estate within ten minutes ' drive of the café . |
22 | The Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park , consisting of 1000 acres of land given over to ( amongst other things ) a working dairy farm , wildlife , a pets ' corner and an aviary for tropical birds , is only ten minutes ' drive away . |
23 | Zimbala 's main prison , La Tambier , was less than ten minutes ' drive from the centre of Habane . |
24 | The only place peaceful enough in the midst of an economic crisis , it seemed , was his early Victorian former vicarage home at Stoney Stanton , in his constituency , two-and-a-half hours ' drive away . |
25 | He writes of ‘ the little town Portadown , with its comfortable unpretending houses , its squares and market-place , its pretty quay , with craft along the river , a steamer building in the dock close to mills and warehouses — a pleasant conclusion to this ten miles ' drive ( from Armagh ) . ’ |
26 | Of the last ten World Championships , four have seen the slalom site several hours ' drive from the WWR venue and it will happen again in 1995 with Nottingham and Bala . |
27 | The marvellous historic and cultural cities of Edinburgh , Berwick-on-Tweed , and Glasgow are under two hours ' drive away . |
28 | The new gold rush revolves round the so-called Mother Lode , in the lower foothills of the Sierra Nevada , about two hours ' drive from San Francisco . |
29 | They stood her in good stead when her father enrolled her at her next school , Riddlesworth Hall , two hours ' drive from Park House . |
30 | On the Saturday before our departure our group was sent off for a day 's grape picking at Puyloubier , the rest home for injured and retired former legionnaires , in the foothills of Provence , about two hours ' drive from Aubagne . |