Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after Christmas I received the first batch of rereleases from the Savoy label , or rather from the Nippon Columbia Co . |
| 2 | From the late seventies , to the nineteen eighties or rather from the from the seventies , not just late seventies , to the nineteen eighties , it 's come down about a thousand broad terms , a thousand dwellings a year fewer being built . |
| 3 | My guess would be that they are the same advisers or perhaps from the same coterie of advisers . |
| 4 | When I was taught chemistry at Regent 's Street Polytechnic in the later 1930s , we 16-year-olds were treated as adults , not incompetents , and were expected to achieve titrations accurate to 1 per cent or less from the moment we began quantitative analysis : for were we not addressed by our splendid lecturers as ‘ Mr ’ ? |
| 5 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 6 | Pritchard and one corporal then nipped back across the open roadway to drop a 10lb charge between two tugs moored in the basin , and their dash back to the hut , a mere 60 yards or less from the approaching enemy , was achieved without mishap . |
| 7 | Erm so you have you have another thirty minutes , twenty minutes or less from the candidate . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 9 | Well the o , well more or less from the time we got in she 's not gon na go back to that place |
| 10 | Crossing the garden became a frequent pleasure as the five comfortable apartments , named after French regions — ours was Bordeaux — are in a recently converted timbered building 30 yards or so from the house . |
| 11 | I collect a dozen or so from the dewy grass in the early morning and set off for a few hours ' chubbing , knowing I am going to catch several fish , providing , of course , the weather and water conditions are favourable . |
| 12 | Three hundred yards or so from the cottage , we stopped , opened the door , and Henry was off . |
| 13 | Kirby Underdale is a pretty little village , lying in a fold of the Yorkshire Wolds , a mile or so from the busy road between Stamford Bridge and Fridaythorpe . |
| 14 | With a tripod you lose the freedom of camera mobility which you have with a hand-held camera , and if you decide to dispense with a tripod , a position at 3 m ( 10 ft ) or so from the subjects will allow you to work the zoom from wide angle down to midrange for close-ups . |
| 15 | It 's only a small crag , this , a mile or so from the car-park , easy to get at , a little ruined by the serpent presence at its side . |
| 16 | He had moved a yard or so from the door . |
| 17 | In fact it was only a minute or so from the M27 and we had just passed over the Queen Elizabeth Bridge at Dartford . |
| 18 | It proposes to recapitalise the insurer by raising NKr2.8 billion through a rights issue and another NKr1.5 billion or so from the bond market . |
| 19 | The French company currently needs four weeks or so from the IBM announcement of new RS/6000s to integrate its set of Distributed Computing Model distributed computing framework — a major differentiator from the IBM versions , claims Bull . |
| 20 | So she waited , pacing about her room and going to the window every other minute to look across the harbour at the carrack which lay at anchor a cable or so from the town landing stage . |
| 21 | The Gorges de Kakouetta are five miles or so from the turning , on the right , and a clammily spectacular experience they are , because the micro-climate you enter one . |
| 22 | If Glynn had wanted a cover for visits to his woman friend , his charitable trips to St Ives served him well ; New Mill involved only a detour of a mile or so from the direct route . |
| 23 | Some more modern houses often have bay windows which stick out about a metre or so from the wall . |
| 24 | When one adds to that the £40 million or so from the trust , my hon. Friends at least will recognise that the Government can lay claim to spending more money on sport than any party has done for many years . |
| 25 | These other departments are situated on two sites which are each a mile or so from the Main Library , and about two miles from each other . |
| 26 | Twenty metres or so from the grass-packed hill which looks over the Rabbit Grounds I switched to Silent Running , pacing stealthily through the long weeds and reeds , careful not to let anything I was carrying make a noise . |
| 27 | erm because , to get in to the flat they 'd either to go up stairs from the deck , or downstairs from the deck , and to try and manage that with small children , probably a buggy and shopping as well . |
| 28 | Bodies should be fully stretched upwards and curved either slightly forwards or backwards from the waist only . |
| 29 | You should try and keep your balance by moving the knees and hips towards or away from the sail , keeping the shoulders still . |
| 30 | Your stance is crucial to how you move into or away from the ball . |