Example sentences of "or [adv] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My guess would be that they are the same advisers or perhaps from the same coterie of advisers . |
| 2 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Are the hours you spend travelling , at work or away from the only chair that suits you made a misery because of BACK AND SCIATIC PAIN ? |
| 10 | Their eye for a likely spot and its potential undoubtedly influenced their early settlements alongside or away from the earlier British sites . |
| 11 | It catastrophically invaded the loess-covered Columbia Plateau in south-eastern Washington … and reached Pacific Ocean level via the Columbia River , 430 miles or more from the glacial dam . |
| 12 | If you want to use dropper bottles they can be obtained singly from dispensing chemists or in quantities of 50 or more from The Homœopathic Supply co. ( tel. 0263 824683 ) |
| 13 | If the court is left in doubt as to whether the information might not have been acquired wholly or partly from the general experience gained by the employee then the employer will fail . |
| 14 | But it was already obvious that the horn blast had come from elsewhere entirely — not from the Halfling camp or even from the human regiments of the Empire army , but from the fierce goblin Wolf Riders who were hacking and biting at will as Halflings ran hither and thither in blind panic . |
| 15 | Client will not be liablewhether under this indemnity or otherwise for any claims arising directly or indirectly from the gross negligence or wilful default of any Indemnified Person . |