Example sentences of "[art] [num] [noun] away [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned my back on the lochan and walked a dozen paces away from the edge before heading back towards the road . |
| 2 | Cousin Island also has a small population of giant tortoises , including ‘ George ’ said to be 150 years old and one of the survivors of the endemic subspecies , the others having been introduced from the island of Aldabra which lies about a thousand kilometres away off the north of Madagascar . |
| 3 | CBGB 's is all at once an intrinsically ‘ Noo York ’ place and a thousand light-years away from the push'n'shove of this most overbearing of cities . |
| 4 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 5 | It is that the coin was indeed a perfectly ordinary cause of something , which thing was not a thousand miles away from the bar 's coming out . |
| 6 | She felt a thousand miles away from the gentle professor , who used to cross out the expletives in Sheridan and even bowdlerized Macbeth . |
| 7 | It 's a million miles away from a cold wet evening in Hereford , but that does n't dampen the enthusiasm of the Holmer School Steel Band . |
| 8 | Indeed , this sort of campaigning has given rise to a certain newspaper image — that Mr Kinnock is being protected from real people , shepherded into a succession of carefully-staged photo-opportunities designed to look good on television but a million miles away from the real cut and thrust of the hustings . |
| 9 | The new books feature the same detective , Sarah Keane , and are set in a newspaper office ‘ not a million miles away from the Mirror ’ , according to Gordon . |
| 10 | It means Oxford finish in 14th place ; a million miles away from the relegation zone . |
| 11 | It accelerated more than anticipated with the result that the capsule landed in the Atlantic over a hundred miles away from the target area . |
| 12 | A hundred yards away across the rain-drowned compound Dong and Hoc were weeping openly as they embraced their father in the blackness of their leaking barrack hut . |
| 13 | I park a hundred yards away up the High Street . |
| 14 | Immediately the little mountain tribesmen , who seemed to have stepped straight out of the sepia photographs in his history book , began unloading the baggage , and Joseph saw them take their crossbows and arrows from the carts and carry them to their own huts a hundred yards away along the riverbank … |
| 15 | We used to live about a hundred yards away from the main park in Colchester . |
| 16 | Rosie Kruger was in the Rollercoaster , her favourite bar on West 43rd Street , less than a hundred yards away from the heart of Times Square . |
| 17 | The pilot stationed the Lynx in a controlled hover above a dell a hundred yards away from the target . |
| 18 | We turned our heads in the direction the Brigadier is pointing and see a Commando about a hundred-and-fifty yards away towards the end of the orchard and almost obscured by the trees , making his way slowly in the direction of Scouse 's latrine . |