Example sentences of "than a [noun sg] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Thomson said Mr Wilson could not have got a bus to the area where he was found , which more than a mile from a road , and he could not have walked the distance on his own . |
| 2 | Less than a mile from the turning for the Lac de Bious-Artigues , but on the other side of the road , is a lazier way of gaining real altitude and tremendous views , by taking the cable-car ( it goes regularly only in summer and during the skiing season ) up to the Pic de la Sagette , at almost 7,000 feet . |
| 3 | Their lodgings lay almost in the shadow of the Stefansdom , the great cathedral dominating the centre of the city , and less than a mile from the Theatre an der Wien . |
| 4 | An incident room staffed by 30 officers working full time on the case is being run at Martlesham police headquarters , which is less than a mile from the scene of crime . |
| 5 | There have been scores of potentially dangerous incidents , some of them in a generator little more than a mile from the border with West Germany . |
| 6 | And they used to let us come out of the pit at three quarter time , there were six of us , all of a size , strong as young bulls and er we used to have to i if the body was within less than a mile from the church , you see ? |
| 7 | Her address was less than a mile from the shop , but Folly had asked Lisa to keep it until last in the route she had mapped out . |
| 8 | That same night , at that same moment , and less than a mile from the Zoo , one other living creature was thinking of Minch . |
| 9 | Johanna 's home is less than a mile from the spot where her body was found . |
| 10 | Scotland Yard said no further action would be taken against Stagg , who lives at Roehampton less than a mile from the murder scene . |
| 11 | The beach was less than a furlong from the centre . |
| 12 | Our house was less than a kilometre from the pick-up point . |
| 13 | Ministers also found in favour of allowing a methane terminal , run by the British Gas corporation less than a kilometre from the refinery site , to stay open . |
| 14 | Perhaps not surprisingly , Cud feel their increasing popularity is due to the prevailing attitude of punters who desire a good night out rather than a drubbing from a band preaching a university thesis . |
| 15 | Perhaps not surprisingly , Cud feel their increasing popularity is due to the prevailing attitude of punters who desire a good night out rather than a drubbing from a band preaching a university thesis . |
| 16 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 17 | Doctors dare not remove an airgun pellet lodged less than a millimetre from the optic nerve of Nicola Child 's right eye and have said sudden movement could blind the 15-year-old . |
| 18 | The pellet entered her nose , bounced from a bone and ended less than a millimetre from the optic nerve of her right eye . |
| 19 | ‘ Until you put it all together for us , we had nothing more than a report from a cab driver that he saw a man and a woman pushing such a barrow along Holborn and up Charterhouse Street . ’ |
| 20 | Kitty had stayed in the woods above Buttermere and Lorton ever since — rarely more than a quarter-mile from the rock on which her suitor had been killed . |