Example sentences of "about [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference that gave rise to these events was organised by Donald Johanson , who unearthed Lucy 's half complete skeleton in 1974 at Hadar in Ethiopia , about 1100 miles north of where the Laetoli trails were uncovered between 1976 and 1979 . |
| 2 | In June 1979 , Hayt compromised by transferring Joseph 's 370 Nez Perce about 180 miles west to Oakland on the Ponca Reservation . |
| 3 | The village of Sancton lies about eight miles west of Beverley on the Market Weighton to Brough road . |
| 4 | Newcomers are welcomed by the old hands , and each morning starts with a chat to outline the day 's programme on the windsurfer beach , about 800 metres west of the village . |
| 5 | Everett , about 30 miles north of Seattle , has a not-quite-finished ‘ home port ’ , one of several relatively small bases started at the height of the defence build-up of the Reagan years . |
| 6 | About 30 miles south of Nashville , in the small town of Smyrna , Tennessee , stands a reply to that description . |
| 7 | The capital of the north-central area , and its cultural centre , was Gniezno , a not very large town about 30 miles south-east of Poznan . |
| 8 | Pavlovo is about 300 miles east of Moscow and has a history of metal craft . |
| 9 | In pre-Victorian times Camberwell was a middle-class suburb covering the 4,450 acres of the ancient parish of St Giles , which lay about 12 miles south of London Bridge ; its population in 1841 already stood at 39,868 . |
| 10 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 11 | It had been in touch with air control in Athens and had been instructed to alter course over the island of Amorgós — that 's about forty miles north-east of here — and proceed on a roughly north-north-west course . |
| 12 | They got their way , and the building opened in 1986 as the Foothill Communities Law and Justice Center , about 100 kilometres east of Los Angeles . |
| 13 | The wreck , snagged by a fisherman 's nets in 1989 about 100 miles south of Vung Tau on the coast of Vietnam , was brought to the surface last year and emptied , last week , into Christie 's salerooms in Amsterdam . |
| 14 | The village of St Mont is situated about 100 miles south of Bordeaux . |
| 15 | The bottom of the planes dipped into a cut which connected with the Harborough Arm , about 100 yards east from the Foxton Junction , and crossed by a bridge newly constructed to carry the road to Foxton . |
| 16 | Situated about 10 minutes walk from the centre of Bellagio , and set in its own lovely grounds overlooking the lake , this is an impressive hotel . |
| 17 | The pension is situated about 10 minutes walk from the village , set back from the road . |
| 18 | Situated in Kildare Street , about 10 minutes walk from the GPO . |
| 19 | On the night he died , he was in a speedboat about 10 miles South of the Spanish Enclave , Ceuto and into Morroccan waters . |
| 20 | The pensions is about 45 minutes walk from the village centre . |
| 21 | I think the main thing is there 's about six hours sort of realistically speaking of really good quality hours to be on your B M S set during the day , and just to sort of add up the hours that you are actually on the phone making outgoing calls , sort of brings it home to you . |
| 22 | It lies between Burrough on the Hill and Somerby , about six miles south of Melton Mowbray . |
| 23 | They did visit Cawdor Castle , which lies about six miles south-south-west of Nairn , reached by the B9090 and linking with the B9191 to the village of Cawdor . |
| 24 | It lay only about six miles west of Châtellerault and documents from the 1130s indicate that the castellan of Clairvaux at that time was a vassal of the Viscount of Châtellerault . |
| 25 | LASMO is one of the three companies which has made a gas discovery about six miles east of Scarborough off the Yorkshire coast . |
| 26 | Londoner Eddie , who cleared a record eight double-decker buses with no hands on his machine at Knutsford , Cheshire , last year , will attempt the jump on a Honda CR 500 on May 11 at Simatai , about three hours drive from Peking . |
| 27 | Ideally situated , about three minutes walk from the town centre ( pedestrian zone ) and the lake . |
| 28 | You 'll get your licence back in about three weeks time from the driving licence centre . |
| 29 | The village is situated about three miles north of Market Weighton , just off the A163 . |
| 30 | Turning her back on Ben Stack , Ann struck off in as straight a line as possible , eventually arriving at the main road , about three miles east of Scourie . |