Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [noun pl] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Namutamba Rural Education Project started in 1967 , is based on a teachers ' college and involves fifteen primary schools near the town of Mityana , some fifty miles from Kampala . |
| 2 | My respected landladies , who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality , would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting , so , in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary , a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start ; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks , and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits , the geniality of the sunshine was felt , and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress ( some eight miles from Stornoway , where I was due at eight o'clock , if I remember rightly ) , might have waited breakfast for me . |
| 3 | Positioned some 30 yards from goal , the former Liverpool star unleashed an incredible thunderbolt which the bemused Hitchcock could only watch as it speared into the top corner . |
| 4 | Some 30 miles from Berlin he comtemplated hitch-hiking , but rejected it , trudging along and coming upon allotments with apple trees . |
| 5 | Quick Ransom was sent on by jockey Dean McKeown some 300 yards from home and the victory earned the gelding a 3lb penalty for the Northumberland Plate in a fortnight . |
| 6 | A further 134 judges from Lima and Callao were dismissed on April 23 . |
| 7 | On May 9 the Lok Sabha approved a resolution extending President 's rule for a further six months from May 11 [ President 's rule had first been imposed in May 1987 — see pp. 35247-48 — and had been renewed since at six-monthly intervals ] . |
| 8 | On Dec. 19 the Cabinet extended for a further six months from Dec. 31 the mandate of the multinational force deployed in the south and south-east of the country for the protection of Iraqi Kurds . |
| 9 | On Aug. 4 , 1989 , the Karnataka High Court upheld the constitutional validity of the imposition in April of President 's rule in the state [ see p. 36591 ] , and on Oct. 12 the Lok Sabha approved its extension for a further six months from Oct. 21 . |
| 10 | After a Cabinet meeting on Sept. 21 it was announced that the mandate under which the multinational rapid reaction force was stationed in south-east Turkey was to be extended for a further 90 days from Sept. 30 . |
| 11 | From the token half dozen kits from Malaysia we can also see not only the difference in basic shape , but also the lavishly conspicuous consumption of gold paint to provide an overall decoration of either flowers or clouds . |
| 12 | The government in Moscow persistently denies that any such plans exist , but the arrival over the past year of some 20,000 Germans from Kazakhstan has kept the rumours alive . |
| 13 | The expulsion of the ICRC delegates therefore appeared to be linked to the run-up to the general election due on April 10 , as conservatives maintained that the government exerted insufficient pressure on the ICRC for the return of some 5,000 Iranian prisoners who some believed had survived in Iraq : the ICRC had been unable to locate prisoners in these numbers , while it was supervising the return of some 20,000 prisoners from Iran to Iraq . |
| 14 | The Museum of the Welsh Woollen Industry is at Drefach , Felindre , some 5 miles from Newcastle Emlyn . |
| 15 | All went well until we were within sight of Balloch ( Loch Lomondside ) , some 18 miles from Glasgow . |
| 16 | As part of my agreement with , I received campaign contributions totalling thirteen and a half thousand dollars from G Tec in October ninety eighty six . |
| 17 | But the quotas imposed by the United States and Britain — a thousand to each country — fell a long way short of Eichmann 's target of clearing another 45,000 Jews from Vienna , at least a third of them children , within six months . |
| 18 | The nut and bolt holding my friend 's chain came off and there we were , two ten-year-olds , some fourteen miles from home with a useless bike . |
| 19 | Now , says the breed society secretary , Libby Henson , there are 500 registered breeders with some 3,000 cattle from Orkney to Cornwall and a strong unrequited demand from Germany . |
| 20 | In producing national network programmes ( the network basically consisted of telegraph wires stretching some 5,000 miles from Vancouver , on the Pacific to Halifax , Nova Scotia on the Atlantic coast ) we soon became familiar with the five time-zones across the country . |
| 21 | Bagthorpe Junction was some 3 miles from Nottingham , and it was here that the Great Northern branched off to Derby Friargate . |
| 22 | With such ambitions , a few billion dollars from BT will come in handy . |
| 23 | Some 10,000 neo-Fascists from Spain and elsewhere assembled in Madrid 's Plaza Oriente on Nov. 17 to commemorate the 16th anniversary ( on Nov. 20 ) of the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco . |
| 24 | Bloodstained clothing was found at Peppard Common , some five miles from Reading , but under analysis the stains turned out to be six months old . |
| 25 | The Guardian of June 20 reported that 20,000 Iraqi Kurds in a transit camp near the border in Silopi were refusing to leave for Iraq without guarantees of their safety , and the Turkish authorities reported that a further 12,200 refugees from Iraq were still accommodated in other camps inside Turkey . |
| 26 | On 27 June Field Marshal Kesselring , whose headquarters were in Sant'Andrea Bagni , a village some fifteen kilometres from Fontanellato , said that he would not tolerate the partisans any more , and three days later he ordered two large-scale rastrellamenti . |
| 27 | St Buryan , some twelve miles from St Ives , was selected as the town in the script . |
| 28 | The first plant was in Farnham , some twenty miles from Cobham , in the mid-'80s . |
| 29 | Both organisations had as their chief promoter Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld , a brave and dedicated man who could take personal credit for bringing out some 250 children from Vienna and Berlin . |
| 30 | One thinks of the change in the course Of the Hwang-ho River in China , which in less than eighty years moved its mouth some 250 miles from way to the south of Shantung on the Yellow Sea up nearly to Tientsin on the Gulf of Pohai . |