Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [noun pl] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Over a series of dives , Skorupka eventually reached a point some 420 metres from base at 30 metres depth . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After some 20 years from withdrawal by BR in 1964 , major components of boiler , frames and wheel-sets were remaining , plus the original tender tank ( but not the frames or wheels ) . |
| 8 | Klinsmann pulled a goal back in the 66th minute and Andreas Moeller scored the second 10 minutes from time . |
| 9 | Worthington volleyed the second three minutes from time from a Nilsson cross after a short-corner routine . |
| 10 | That was effectively the end of Liverpool 's challenge , and Spartak confirmed their greater class with a second three minutes from time . |
| 11 | The surge did n't last too long and Newton slid in his first goal seven minutes later and grabbed his second five minutes from time when he finished off a sweeping , decisive move involving Dennis Wise and Stuart . |
| 12 | Use these 9 stitches from holly leaf for green parcels and scarf . |
| 13 | material impressions : Strands of fibre on a smooth paper backing give a natural fabric look to these two wallcoverings from Paper Moon 's Mahogany range |
| 14 | The ME-6 is the less expensive of these two pedalboards from BOSS . |
| 15 | This is taken very seriously in the USA , where the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 10 000–20 000 deaths from lung cancer each year are due to radon gas exposure . |
| 16 | The collected volume of his Seventy eight studies from Nature ( 1809 ) contains an 8-page discourse entitled ‘ A Few Observations with respect to the mode in which Plantations ought to be Conducted . ’ |
| 17 | Neil Redfearn made sure eight minutes from time . |
| 18 | Hereford deserved at least a draw but lost it for good three minutes from time when Johnson got a second for Lincoln … |
| 19 | Hereford deserved at least a draw but lost it for good three minutes from time when Johnson got a second for Lincoln … |
| 20 | ( 8 ) For the purpose of this rule : ( a ) pleadings shall be deemed to be closed 14 days after the delivery of a defence in accordance with Ord 9 , r 2 , or , where a counterclaim is served with the defence , 28 days after the delivery of the defence ; but in an action which has been transferred down from the High Court , pleadings are deemed closed 14 days from transfer . |
| 21 | Hardly anyone ever travels the full 3,727 miles from sea to frigid sea — Halifax , Nova Scotia to Vancouver , British Columbia — except the odd , crazed British journalist . |
| 22 | Over ten million expellees from east of the Oder-Neisse were living in West Germany in the 1960s . |
| 23 | Nilsson added the fourth four minutes from time . |
| 24 | The Portuguese rarely threatened and a bad night was rounded off when Paulo Ferreira was sent-off 16 minutes from time for spitting at Anderton , having already been booked for fouling Redknapp . |
| 25 | All five hundred coolies from Number Three Village were drawn up outside their barracks in long ranks ; silent and apprehensive , they were wondering why they had been roused half an hour earlier and why the burly , intimidating figure of the plantation director , Duclos , was waiting to address the massed roll call beneath the single lightpole in the barrack compound . |
| 26 | For example , last year alone , the University earned a total of four point nine million pounds from research grants and contracts , a figure which has risen despite the recession . |
| 27 | A report published last week on the consequences of the Chernobyl explosion — a minor explosion compared with that of a series of nuclear warheads — showed that there were several thousand deaths from cancer in the Soviet Union and in northern and western Europe as a result . |
| 28 | Twice they were denied penalties for handball , one in each half , and when Colin Johnson hit the upright 16 minutes from time , it looked more and more obvious that this was not going to be their day . |
| 29 | THIRTYSOMETHINGS AND UP : Let them relive their hippie days with Something In The Air ( Columbia ) , a superb compilation of 40 Sixties songs from Traffic , Jethro Tull , The Byrds , The Kinks , The Small Faces and many more . |
| 30 | Twenty four hours from onset to death . |