Example sentences of "[num] [noun] from [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanna Grenside 's car was found less than 100 yards from the sports centre where she was due to take a class . |
| 2 | Twenty armed police from Essex assisted nine detectives from the drugs wing of Number Nine Regional Crime Squad in the swoop . |
| 3 | Behind Lucy 's head , an office party , obviously continued from lunch-time , was getting slowly and inevitably out of hand and at least one guy from the Accounts Department ( why is it always Accounts ? ) was not waving , but drowning in the typing pool . |
| 4 | That is the deal it must accept as a condition of a £3 million grant from the Sports Council . |
| 5 | Added to a £149 million windfall from a shares sale , that pushed profits up 27 per cent to £113 million last year . |
| 6 | In scarlet and black they had written " Support the Women of Greenham Common " on the dull grey-green paint of a bridge two hundred yards from a police station . |
| 7 | The terrorists then loaded a mortar launcher into the skip and drove the lorry into the council yard , just one hundred metres from the Police Station . |