Example sentences of "[num] [noun] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mercenary captain John of Hainault brought a force of 500 men-at-arms from the Low Countries , and at York they became involved in a violent affray with a band of archers from Lincolnshire , which culminated in the deaths of a sizeable number of the Lincolnshire men . |
| 2 | Eight clubs from the North-Western Federation attended and were busy putting up their stalls by 8.00am . |
| 3 | Thirty-six hours from the relevant time would expire in the early hours of the morning ; then access to a solicitor would have to be permitted . |
| 4 | The Third Division side , holding a 2-1 advantage from the first leg of their Littlewoods Cup tie , were well placed at 1-1 before Trevor Morley struck twice in as many minutes and David Oldfield added another to wrap up City 's 5-3 aggregate win . |
| 5 | It discovered poor ground in general and was then below the eastern end of Kernal Crag and about 30 fathoms from the pumping/winding sump sinking below Fleming 's Level 210 ft. above . |
| 6 | I heard recently that if the patient is in North Wales he may be 2 hours from the nearest hospital . |
| 7 | Masri 's resignation was precipitated by a petition signed on Oct. 6 by an alliance of 49 deputies from the Moslem Brotherhood ( with 22 seats ) , the Constitutional bloc ( 17 seats ) , the Democratic Alliance and some independent Islamic deputies . |
| 8 | The gap between exports and imports narrowed by 43 p.c. from the previous month to $3.4 billion . |
| 9 | These 11 large folio books , designated ‘ The Lawrence Notebooks ’ , were compiled over 30 years from the 1890s and contain detailed notes for a comprehensive history of stage scenery and technical appliances , together with lives of the most prominent scenic artists . |
| 10 | The Arab-Israeli peace talks have been suspended since Israel deported the 415 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza to south Lebanon . |
| 11 | He said he still had to work out an acceptable solution to the dispute created by Israel 's deportation of 415 Palestinians from the occupied territories to an icy no man 's land in south Lebanon , where 396 of them remain . |
| 12 | As it T's off the main flow , it takes only part of the flow from the pump , and using three Wurlys from one pump you lose only 30 GPH from the main flow rate . |
| 13 | Since then , more than 2,000 such home have been erected in the U.K. and it remains the company 's most popular product , available in 12 variations from the 1,000 sq ft Hatley to the 4,000 sq ft Abbotsley — an E-shaped stately home with potentially six bedrooms and a long gallery . |
| 14 | Our supply comes from the stream which flows about forty yards from the front door , or from the barrel which collects the rainwater from the roof . |
| 15 | According to estimates from the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and local Red Cross committees , some 2,500,000 people from the former Yugoslavia were displaced by the end of July , and some 10,000 people from Bosnia were joining them every day . |
| 16 | The famous Irish roar echoed around the Cotswold Hills as Montelado shot clear two out in the Trafalgar House Supreme Novices ' Hurdle , winning by 12 lengths from the Pipe-trained Lemon 's Mill . |
| 17 | In ITV 's studio at Twickenham the debate was intense about the incident , particularly the fact that play was still some 22 metres from the Australian goal-line ; however , distance does not affect the referee 's decision to award a penalty try . |
| 18 | Kalmar is a smallish ( 50,000 population ) town in a largely rural area of Sweden on the east coast of the country about 300 km. from the main Volvo production facilities in the large industrial town of Gothenburg on the west coast . |
| 19 | ‘ Benjamin Barnett and Dave Matthews compliment each other well up front , and we are looking to take 12 points from the last eight games and finish mid-table , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 20 | He , his wife , his son and five bodyguards died , and 11 others were reported wounded , when two helicopter gunships attacked his motorcade at Sharquiyya , 20 km from Tyre and 30 km from the Israeli border , firing five wire-guided missiles and setting his car ablaze . |
| 21 | Cut 2 collars from the white card , each 15 × 6cm . |
| 22 | Lastly , the points used in the control group can not be regarded as suitable : electrical stimulation of needles only 2 cm from the real points is unlikely to be without some effect . |
| 23 | Nine antral gastric biopsies were taken 3–4 cm from the pyloric ring . |
| 24 | Although regular use of itinerating magistrates was made in some areas later in the century , many villages remained thirty or forty kilometres from the nearest police court , and some were much |
| 25 | They travelled 1,700 miles in eleven weeks , defied ten separate US commands , and capitulated only forty miles from the Canadian border . |
| 26 | The ‘ last outpost of freedom ’ , over one hundred miles from West Germany and only forty miles from the Polish border . |
| 27 | It lies ½ mile from the main road to Market Rasen and Lincoln and about 2 miles from the attractive village of Claxby which clings to the ironstone ridge of the Lincolnshire Wolds . |
| 28 | In 1550 three London gentlemen paid £18,744 11 2d , which entitled them to an annual income of £939 2 5½d from the various properties . |
| 29 | A war-zone was defined beginning 12 miles from the Argentinian coast . |
| 30 | The pipeline would run 2,914 miles from the Yamal peninsula . |