Example sentences of "from a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can locate a person from a thousand metres up and at distances of three kilometres away . |
| 2 | Smoke from a thousand chimneys strains |
| 3 | She is in fact perfectly ordinary , with nothing to distinguish her from a thousand others . |
| 4 | Slopes which are visible from a thousand feet looking straight down from above are far too steep for an easy or safe landing . |
| 5 | The glow from a thousand points of light seems less reliable than that from the lightbulbs of a well-financed bureaucracy . |
| 6 | A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as ‘ A frightful scene … a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever … and at night the whole region becomes like a volcano spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick . ’ |
| 7 | But how could the Templars , operating in the early twelfth century , have acquired such familiarity with a cryptographic system dating from a thousand years before , whose practitioners had apparently long vanished from the stage of history ? |
| 8 | From a thousand voices came back the response : ‘ He is risen indeed , Alleluia ! ’ |
| 9 | The pale cement-coloured walls were streaked with dirt like snot running from a thousand noses . |
| 10 | Brent Chemicals is raising £15.6m from a one-for-four rights issue and is using the money to buy a 75.1 per cent share in the German metals finishing chemical supplier , Hebro , for £10.2m . |
| 11 | A year ago they would have replied in kind ; now from a hundred throats came the new cry : ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ with if anything even greater fervour . |
| 12 | To cut a long short story ( ‘ yes , please ’ from a hundred throats ! ) , just before 11.30pm , victory was ours . |
| 13 | Perspiration poured from a hundred brows — though it was snowing steadily outside — as an official declared : ‘ We ask you to tell the world about Petr Uhl . |
| 14 | From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again . |
| 15 | Heseltine was able to announce that he already had assurances of support from a hundred MPs when he formally declared his intention to contest the leadership . |
| 16 | Miss Dunstable surveyed this evidence of — to her mind — most proper domestic industry , from a hundred yards away , on the footpath to her favourite walk , and made up her mind on the side of tolerance . |
| 17 | I presently see a figure approaching from a hundred yards off , up the middle of the street : a tall young woman , in a close white cap , and a short frock of lilac cotton , and coarse sack-cloth apron , and strong boots . |
| 18 | The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell . |
| 19 | Crooked stove-pipe chimneys sprouted from a hundred roofs , and families could be seen talking animatedly in rows of caravan windows . |
| 20 | Melanie opened her eyes and saw thorns among roses , as if she woke from a hundred years ' night , la belle au bois dormante , imprisoned in a century 's steadily burgeoning garden . |
| 21 | Again the densities that I was getting back from them varied considerably , from a hundred workers per hectare on some |
| 22 | Lambert glimpsed a flickering of muzzle-flames from a hundred machine-guns , and heard the deft tug of bullets speckling his machine , with sometimes a spang ! as a round struck metal . |
| 23 | The world is a great jewel , a blue and green jewel that shines from a million facets . |
| 24 | big sand stone rocks , they find things that fish today er had , had got other pediments that million years back , same thing , but not , not , not the same as they are today , you know , well they must of got hold of it to be different from a million years ago |
| 25 | Our roads were clean and unpolluted , and in our cities the air was not polluted with gases from a million exhaust-pipes . |
| 26 | Dazed with the heat and noise , sickened by the stink of oil and sweat , eyes , ears and throats filled with a soft clogging dust like the seeds from a million dandelions , they toiled on and on . |
| 27 | Aylesbury Group collected more than £1,300 and raised £200 from a Three Peaks Challenge Event . |
| 28 | Sir Henry Curtis perched upon a rock bleeding from a dozen wounds but fighting on with the remnant of the Greys against the hordes of Twala was too heroic . |
| 29 | Thin beads of light were pulsing from a dozen locations on the convoluted spiral arms of the space station . |
| 30 | It was as though the unwanted debris from a dozen mansions had been dumped in a single , overcrowded space . |