Example sentences of "[verb] travel a " in BNC.

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1 And while he has travelled a lot since the success of Monty Python , as a child his family holidays were spent in the unadventurous climes of Southwold and East Anglia ( recalled in his TV play East of Ipswich ) .
2 American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states .
3 The fact that no one has created a furore over this would suggest that Ireland has travelled a hell of a healthy distance since those dark days in the 60's when your book was banned .
4 After it has travelled a hundred yards or so , it bivouacs .
5 And I want to travel a bit .
6 And we want to travel a hundred a hundred and twenty miles .
7 It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere .
8 He finds the village roads with their mud ruts , gullies to cross and general hostility to smooth travel a great strain .
9 This is so that the energy can be made to travel a much greater distance .
10 His voice only seemed to travel a few feet , then it stopped dead .
11 Having travelled a reasonable distance into wind ( you did wait three years for a day with a light breeze did n't you ? ) , apply some sideways cyclic to bank the model and start a turn .
12 Erm not only will people have to travel a lot further for treatment , as was admitted at the public meeting erm last Monday , here in Harlow but er if people want to is maybe they 'll one or two less senior f the area committee authority they will have to travel to Witham or Colchester or whatever , by absolutely execrable public transport if they do n't drive a motor car to actually attend those meetings and that 's not democratic or accountable either !
13 The growers are unhappy they 'll soon have to travel a lot further than the Vale of Evesham to get help .
14 My grown-up children are on their way to see me , and in order to do so are having to travel a two-hour journey on the motorway .
15 We chose to travel a minimum distance and stayed at Shorefield Country Club in southwest Hampshire .
16 Only three days and they seemed to have travelled a great distance .
17 Careful attention to engine mounting and sound insulation means that the large engine sounds almost as though it belongs to the car in front — a remote burbling noise that seems to have travelled a long way before it reaches the driver 's ear .
18 He had been offered one interview , but had decided against it because , if he obtained the job , it would have meant travelling a long distance every day .
19 However a rough estimate of optimum switching angle can be obtained if the three torque/speed characteristics are approximated by constant torques , effective up to the maximum speed for each angle : The time taken and number of steps executed during acceleration to the maximum speed may be calculated , since for a constant torque , For constant accelerating torque the instantaneous velocity is proportional to time and therefore the distance travelled during acceleration is simply : so for each switching angle the acceleration time and distance can be found : The time taken to travel a total distance of 60 steps can be calculated for each switching angle , e.g. if the switching angle is 6 degrees the system executes the first 25 steps in 94.3 ms and the remaining steps at a constant speed of 540 steps per second : The time taken to decelerate has been neglected in this calculation because the retarding torque ( motor braking torque + load torque ) is , in all three cases , much larger than the accelerating torque ( motor accelerating torque - load torque ) .
20 ‘ Mr McKillop , you 've travelled a long way and you 've worked hard but I think this is as far as you 're likely to get . ’
21 I 've travelled a long way today . ’
22 I 've travelled a bit , done things as you put it , but that does n't mean a thing .
23 ‘ We 've travelled a tremendously long road and this is a great day for us , ’ he said .
24 The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way .
25 An observer moving out from the origin would find that initially the area of the spherical surface he reached would grow steadily with s until he had travelled a distance .
26 Some had travelled a considerable distance for example from Australia , Germany , Belgium and the USA and were not disappointed by either the welcome or the expertise offered them .
27 ‘ Sound does travel a long way , does n't it ?
28 That is about what would be expected if a short burst of neutrons with a range of energies had to travel a long distance ; the slower , less-energetic neutrons would lag behind those with more energy .
29 But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis .
30 When you visit the ancient university town of Cambridge and enjoy the historic college buildings along the River Cam , you should not fail to travel a few miles south to Audley End House in neighbouring Essex .
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