Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | James and Pauline MacGregor of Mulbarton , Norfolk , had to drive 180 miles from Auxerre to Lyon before being freed unharmed . |
| 2 | We sought 169 records from district general or teaching hospitals and 34 from cottage or private hospitals . |
| 3 | By Jan. 3 the Constitutional Council had received 341 appeals from various parties against the results of the Dec. 26 voting , on the grounds of alleged irregularities in 145 different constituencies . |
| 4 | Soon after 6 a.m. the rebels took control of Radio Nigeria ( situated 300 metres from the barracks ) , announcing that Babangida had been deposed and the governing Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) dissolved , and stating their political objectives . |
| 5 | She commutes 30 miles from the outskirts of Kidderminster , crossing slow , steep byways over the Malvern Hills to Bishop 's Frome on the Hereford-Worcester border . |
| 6 | The Lab has eleven machines from six vendors available for use , including HP-UX on PA-RISC , DEC OSF/1 on Alpha AXP , Sinix and Unix SVR4 on Siemens Nixdorf Intel boxes , Solaris and SunOS on Sun Sparc systems , IBM RS/6000s running AIX3.2 and Mips-based DECstations with OSF/1 plus Transarc Corp on-line transaction processing and Gradient Technologies network licencing software . |
| 7 | A SUPERB athlete , he has eleven wins from twelve chases to his credit , including the Champion Chase at the Festival . |
| 8 | Bradlow et al reviewed 3678 referrals from general practitioners to dermatology outpatient clinics and found that 26% of patients were referred for diagnosis or investigation , 14% for advice only , 63% for treatment or management , and 2% for a second opinion or reassurance . |
| 9 | Nothing moved on the road now except for a man driving eight cows from one pasture to another . |
| 10 | He usually drew forty pounds from his personal account each week so he must have needed two hundred and fifty for something . ’ |
| 11 | There was worse to come 2 minutes from time . |
| 12 | A West Ham fan since 1966 ( ‘ when the Hammers won the World Cup under the pseudonym of England ’ ) he now lives 30 seconds from York City 's ground and nurtures a neighbourly allegiance . |
| 13 | Six rounds after the Skeletal Dinosaur springs up , two Bloodletters appear 12 yards from the arch ( between the arch and the adventurers if they are still heading for it ) and attack any characters still present . |
| 14 | According to the council , the garden was indeed large but much of it was paved ; the property was in an urban area where the speed limit was 30mph ; the shops were located 700 yards from the property ; |
| 15 | None of the Republic players was more likely to come into conflict with Charlton 's tactics than Liam Brady , who announced his retirement from international football after being substituted 10 minutes from half-time in a recent friendly against West Germany . |
| 16 | The Dane did not look too happy when substituted 10 minutes from time , and Newcastle faded after his departure , surviving a few uncomfortable moments before the end . |
| 17 | Colleague Nurit Tzabar , from the settlement which is located six miles from the biblical town of Sodom , said : ‘ She was a modest girl who kept herself to herself . |
| 18 | There are direct regular air services into Leeds/Bradford Airport ( located 7 miles from the city ) from Aberdeen , Amsterdam , Belfast , Cardiff , Dublin , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Guernsey ( summer only ) , Jersey ( summer only ) , London ( Heathrow and Stansted ) and Paris . |
| 19 | Mum Linda Davies , 40 — who lives six miles from where her son was found — described 5ft 9in Matthew as a ‘ gentle giant . ’ |
| 20 | England 's Under-21 squad for tomorrow 's match against Poland contains six changes from the original 16 . |
| 21 | On Monday , more academics swam in Johnson 's travelling aquarium : Principal Campbell , Professor Ross and a Dr Gerard , who had ‘ come six miles from the country on purpose ’ . |
| 22 | This four star hotel is located 100 metres from Scheveningen beach & main promenade . |
| 23 | Two novels of the 1720s point the contrast in public attitudes to the American colonies of the two countries in an odd way : the Abbé Prévost 's Manon Lescaut and Daniel Defoe 's Moll Flanders are about prostitutes , both of whom are transported to the new world , but Manon dies from exposure in the arms of her faithful des Grieux after walking six miles from New Orleans , while Moll Flanders settles down with her fifth husband to reckon her net worth in cash and tobacco before returning from Virginia to London . |
| 24 | The plan , which would free three officers from front counter work , should be implemented before April 1993 . |
| 25 | Five superfields of the Longman Corpus were selected for investigation , and 15 documents , representing three subdomains from each of the five superfields were extracted . |
| 26 | The consequence was that , deducting three years from eight , the proper sentence would have been five years : that sentence would be imposed . |
| 27 | An 0.5 kb DNA fragment encoding aa 44 to 216 , corresponding to the N'-terminus of the human clone , was used as a probe to isolate three clones from a mouse cDNA library of PCC4 embryonal carcinoma cells ( Lambda ZAPII , oligo(dT) and random primed cDNA library from Stratagene ) . |
| 28 | He strode in purposefully then stopped three paces from the T'ang , clicking his heels together and bowing his head . |
| 29 | But he persevered and now has three assistants from the students at the university helping him . |
| 30 | Former bodybuilder Mary Shearing , 53 , who has three children from a previous marriage , said : ‘ This is the dream of my life fulfilled . ’ |