Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] of [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such large bombs are rather exceptional , though ; most are well under a metre across , and do n't travel more than a few tens of metres from the vent . |
| 2 | The waters described by Boswell flow powerfully beneath deep banks reached after a walk of some hundreds of yards from the B886 north of Fairy Bridge . |
| 3 | Fish are plentiful , but it is necessary to travel some hundreds of yards from the shore to catch them , because the waters close in are so shallow . |
| 4 | All this was as well , for we were beginning to need this information , and one special study has saved untold thousands of lives from deadly infection in swimming pools . |
| 5 | Briefly , there are three principal challenges : improving the quality ( resolution ) of the scanned electronic product currently available to the user ; storing the scanned material in a from that will be accessible hundreds of years from now ; and putting into place distribution systems to provide access at any distance ( Commission 1993 : 14 ) . |
| 6 | That sounds humane enough in theory , and no doubt it saved many hundreds of families from starvation during the years of the French wars ; but it positively encouraged employers to keep wages at rock-bottom levels , while anyone who wanted to do an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay was subject , instead , to the ignominy of accepting supplementary alms in order to live . |
| 7 | There is a haunting beauty about Caernarfon today , and it welcomes many thousands of visitors from many countries each year . |
| 8 | He accused ‘ powers which are situated many thousands of kilometres from this region ’ of having ‘ concentrated a naval armada ’ in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean and of ‘ intensively building up armaments , expanding the network of their military bases and pressuring and threatening small countries that do not follow their lead ’ . |
| 9 | This was done very effectively in the late seventies in campaigns by Whitbread , who ran a series of ads asking for public comments on a number of propositions about the law affecting pubs and licensing ; and subsequently by the major banks , who ran a joint campaign partly designed to deter the threat of nationalization — a campaign which attracted many thousands of replies from the public . |
| 10 | Normally Highlander would endeavour not to remove local community leaders from their home environment in favour of working at Highlander as a residential staff member , and in fact several staff operate within their own communities , several hundreds of miles from Highlander , commuting into the Center when necessary , ( Staff meetings , weekend-workshops etc . ) |
| 11 | Iceland was a democracy while white Americans were still Poles or Irish , still several dozens of generations from crossing the Atlantic . |
| 12 | We 're putting in a hundred thousand of savings from our children 's review . |