Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] north " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who will ever believe that I lay there , stripped naked , 1,000 metres up on top of a hill that is 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle ? |
| 2 | How can it be that here , on a north-facing cliff , with nothing between it and the North pole and situated more than 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle , the vegetation can look like that . |
| 3 | The company plans to build a factory at a site 700 miles North of Moscow in conjunction with the Russian Kamaz engineering company and wants Mr Mukwala fluent in Russian after spending six years at Moscow University to help liaise with the local workforce . |
| 4 | A train derailment near the town of Lakehead , California , 175 miles north of San Francisco , has resulted in disastrous contamination of the Sacramento River by 20,000 gallons of the herbicide metham sodium . |
| 5 | This man was in Brussels , forty miles north of where the Emperor invaded Belgium . |
| 6 | We were bound for North Rona and Sula Sgeir , two little-known islands at the north west limits of the British Isles , some forty miles north of the Outer Hebrides . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Preston Manor ( 2 miles north on the A23 ) offers visitors a chance to relive the Edwardian era both ‘ upstairs and downstairs ’ , and in Dyke Road see The Booth Museum of Natural History . |
| 9 | About 15 miles south of Florence and 22 miles north of Siena , lies the Tavarnelle Val di Pesa , one of the nine boroughs which make up the Chianti Classico wine producing region . |
| 10 | The restaurant was packed , Saturday evenings always fully booked at The Magpie , the best eating house in the small commuter town twenty-one miles north of London . |
| 11 | Geoffrey Kemp , 58 , farms some 230 acres near Chatteris , 12 miles north of Ely in Cambridgeshire and is no stranger to the effects of drought or erosion — particularly that caused by wind on parched , dry soils . |
| 12 | Between 10 and 12 May they surrendered to 6 Armoured Division and were placed in two camps near St Veit , 12 miles north of Klagenfurt . |
| 13 | His Excellency showed me a film he had taken of the three northern islands of the Tonga group which — being some 300 miles north of the main island — are invariably overlooked by such few visitors as Tonga receives . |
| 14 | The spill occurred off Cervantes , a fishing town 105 miles north of Perth , after a fire caused the bow of the Kirki , carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude from Saudi Arabia , to be severed from the rest of the vessel . |
| 15 | Winter walkers in Scotland should pay a visit to the Loch of Strathbeg , by the sea 30 miles north of Aberdeen off the A952 at Crimond . |
| 16 | North Rona is one of Scotland 's most remote islands , lying 30 miles north of the Butt of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and 30 miles northwest of Cape Wrath in Sutherland . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The district around Lauchhammer , an industrial area 30 miles north of Dresden , is more commonly known as ‘ The Little Red Province ’ . |
| 19 | They are centred approximately 30 miles north east of Anglesey . |
| 20 | For six days North passionately defended everything he had done , right and wrong alike . |
| 21 | He was helped by Josef Heinsch , who found further alignments , particularly some oriented six degrees north or south of due east , which he called a ‘ solar year line ’ , linking a ‘ holy hill ’ in the west , dedicated to the moon , with a solar site in the east . |
| 22 | The area , 45 kilometres north of Prince Rupert , was first proposed by the BC government as a conservation area for grizzlies 18 years ago . |
| 23 | Its 20 staff support two distributors and 11 resellers across Ireland and in the six counties north of the border which make up Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | She passed about forty-eight kilometres north of Krakatoa on the evening of the twenty-sixth , spent the night of the twenty-sixth to seventh anchored in Telok Betong , tried to sail again for Anjer in the morning , but was prevented from doing so by the violence of the eruption . |
| 25 | Six kilometres north of the town rose the gentle slopes of Mt Pelee , not a particularly impressive volcano , only 2,250 metres high . |
| 26 | They left some more black flags near the Pole , and one twenty-eight kilometres north . |
| 27 | HAREWOOD IS SITUATED just 7 miles north of Leeds on the A61 to Harrogate , only 22 miles from York and 5 miles from Wetherby . |
| 28 | Nagumo raised the ‘ Z ’ battle flag of the rising sun on December 4 as the task force neared the launch point , some 230 miles north east of Pearl Harbor , where the fleet halted . |
| 29 | Running low on fuel Fuchida headed directly back to the battle fleet , now 190 miles north of Oahu . |
| 30 | Ngugi , winner of the 1988 Olympics 5,000 metres , said he had declined the test because the IAAF team of doctors who visited his rural home in Nyahururu , 190 miles north of Nairobi , failed to identify themselves . |