Example sentences of "[noun] from north to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tibetan Plateau , located between the Himalayan and Karakorum ranges to the south , and the Kunlun and Altyn Tagh ranges to the north , is a roughly triangular area some 1000km from north to south and 1700km from east to west ( Fig. 3.21 ) . |
| 2 | Figure 8.2 Net migration from North to South , 1971–86 |
| 3 | The construction work began in May last year and the first operation was to level the site , which had a six-metre fall from north to south . |
| 4 | And right over the hill from North to South . |
| 5 | Tow hundred yards wide , the river bed scarred the forest from north to south . |
| 6 | Particular attention is given to the accentuation of the drift from North to South since the late 1970s , the current scale of population deconcentration from the major metropolitan centres to smaller towns and more rural areas , and the emerging population patterns in the so-called ‘ inner city areas ’ . |
| 7 | In fact , they have been accompanied by a massive redistribution of population away from the largest cities to smaller settlements and more rural areas and by an acceleration of the drift from North to South . |
| 8 | The continuing strength of the urban-rural shift is evident from Figure 4.4 , albeit overlain by the drift from North to South . |
| 9 | In 1882–3 , while still a student , he began his travels by crossing Australia on foot from north to south from Normanton to Geelong , some two thousand miles in 123 days . |
| 10 | If the South is redefined to include only the four regions of the South East , South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands , then the net movement of people from North to South can be seen to have risen from a low point of only around 10,000–20,000 a year in the early 1970s to a peak of nearly 70,000 by 1985–86 ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 11 | The overall plan , extending about 140 metres from north to south and the same from east to west , is roughly square ; the outer walls have extensions and indents that imply design from the centre outwards . |
| 12 | The archaeological evidence is necessarily very incomplete , but it suggests that the temple was at the centre of a town whose built-up area was approximately 1,200 metres from north to south and 800 metres from east to west . |
| 13 | The island spans over 200 miles by road from north to south and within its borders the proud Sardinians are happy to boast their own language , customs and intriguing culture . |
| 14 | For example , what precipitated the movement of labour-intensive manufacturing from North to South over the past three decades , and how exactly has this affected the employment and wages of skilled and unskilled workers ? |
| 15 | The great drain , the Cloaca Maxima crosses the valley from north to south and , after its construction in the sixth century B.C. the forum life began . |
| 16 | We chose to tackle the walk from north to south , not least because the route passes our home in the south — though the excellent official guide provides duplicate maps and instructions for waling it the other way . |
| 17 | This government has got to be really be joking with its proposals for example the West Coast Line from north to south is estimated to require in the region of eight hundred million to cover track repairs and modernization as well as outdated rolling stock and signal replacements . |
| 18 | How large is the whole coalfield ( i ) in kilometres from north to south and from east to west , ( ii ) in the number of mines , and ( iii ) in the output of coal ? |
| 19 | For long hours at night , I have watched the dim lights of all these trucks winding their way from north to south like the coils of some gigantic snake which had no end to it . ’ |
| 20 | More important , the range almost exactly bisects the Atlantic Ocean from north to south following closely the profile of the African and South American coasts , so it 's always called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . |
| 21 | This walk follows these hills for 30 miles from north to south . |
| 22 | It is 10 miles across and 19 miles from north to south . |
| 23 | The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was a vast country , some 1300 miles from north to south and 900 from east to west , inhabited by a great diversity of tribes and races , ranging from camel-owning nomads in the north to naked pagans in the equatorial swamps of the south , and former cannibals in the forests bordering the Congo . |
| 24 | Harrogate and Hambleton for instance are large districts , they extend many miles from North to South , development concentrated around the metropolitan areas will draw out commuters . |
| 25 | How far was the coalfield from north to south in 1900 ? |