Example sentences of "than a [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 2 | A stone rolled free and splashed into the water no more than a yard from Trent 's feet . |
| 3 | He stood less than a yard from his victim , but she did not look up . |
| 4 | The arch-conservative , Senator Jesse Helms ( North Carolina ) , complained that the administration should have mobilised the US troops , based less than a mile from the Panamanian Defence Force headquarters , to help the rebels . |
| 5 | There have been scores of potentially dangerous incidents , some of them in a generator little more than a mile from the border with West Germany . |
| 6 | The Staples Corner explosion — less than a mile from the Metropoltan police training college — went off just after 1am as Mr Kenneth Baker , Home Secretary , arrived at the scene of the City blast . |
| 7 | Their lodgings lay almost in the shadow of the Stefansdom , the great cathedral dominating the centre of the city , and less than a mile from the Theatre an der Wien . |
| 8 | Johanna 's home is less than a mile from the spot where her body was found . |
| 9 | Johanna , 14 , was battered , sexually assaulted and left to drown in a freezing gravel pit less than a mile from her home in Watton , Norfolk . |
| 10 | The 41-year-old victim died instantly when he was run over by a Bedford van less than a mile from his home in Witney , Oxon . |
| 11 | An incident room staffed by 30 officers working full time on the case is being run at Martlesham police headquarters , which is less than a mile from the scene of crime . |
| 12 | Scotland Yard said no further action would be taken against Stagg , who lives at Roehampton less than a mile from the murder scene . |
| 13 | Right on the tree-lined promenade in the San Bartolomeo district , less than a mile from Diano Marina 's centre , the Hotel Mayola overlooks the sea and has its own sea water swimming pool unusually situated on a private beach . |
| 14 | Less than a mile from the turning for the Lac de Bious-Artigues , but on the other side of the road , is a lazier way of gaining real altitude and tremendous views , by taking the cable-car ( it goes regularly only in summer and during the skiing season ) up to the Pic de la Sagette , at almost 7,000 feet . |
| 15 | I have never lived any nearer than a mile from a public bus and at one point it would be maybe two and a half miles from that bus , so my children , well my children are grown up now , but my children got nowhere or did nothing if I did n't drive nobody delivers the shopping nobody goes |
| 16 | That same night , at that same moment , and less than a mile from the Zoo , one other living creature was thinking of Minch . |
| 17 | And they used to let us come out of the pit at three quarter time , there were six of us , all of a size , strong as young bulls and er we used to have to i if the body was within less than a mile from the church , you see ? |
| 18 | Her address was less than a mile from the shop , but Folly had asked Lisa to keep it until last in the route she had mapped out . |
| 19 | For villagers like the Charlesworth family the motorway , less than a mile from their house , has shattered the peace . |
| 20 | Officers surrounded a house in Argyle Avenue , Hounslow less than a mile from Heathrow . |
| 21 | A woman in her late forties was attacked and assaulted in broad daylight near the H-five Portway in the centre of the city , less than a mile from where the previous attacks happened . |
| 22 | Mrs Hunt has said she can not understand why there was such a delay when an ambulance station is situated less than a mile from her home . |
| 23 | Mr Thomson said Mr Wilson could not have got a bus to the area where he was found , which more than a mile from a road , and he could not have walked the distance on his own . |
| 24 | Douglas , 20 , and Scott Wood , 19 , were found dead in the wrecked Metro on a twisting side road between Crieff and Comrie , less than a mile from their flat at Strowan Stables , near Crieff . |
| 25 | Valerie Moore is unable to understand how her eight-year-old son Lee strayed more than a mile from her home in Princes Road , Ellesmere Port , where he met his death on his brother 's bike . |
| 26 | Tonight I feel I 'd enjoy a pint of ale more than a text from the New Testament . |
| 27 | And then , with his face no more than a foot from her own , she saw what was wedged in his mouth . |
| 28 | To the rapid , repetitive beat two glistening bodies were contorting themselves into an impossible position , their backs horizontal to the floor and no more than a foot from it . |
| 29 | The beach was less than a furlong from the centre . |
| 30 | Ministers also found in favour of allowing a methane terminal , run by the British Gas corporation less than a kilometre from the refinery site , to stay open . |