Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.

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1 A shuttle bus operates to the hotel 's reserved section of beach at San Maria , which is accessed via 70 steps down from the road and has a beach bar .
2 Australia 's defeats at Swansea and Llanelli , and only four tries in five matches in Wales , have given new hope to home players and fans only 12 months on from the 38–3 record home defeat at the hands of the Wallabies .
3 Six months on from the launch , Beaverton , Oregon-based Sequent Computer Systems Inc claims it has won 30 customers for its ptx/Clusters high-availability clustering technology , most with several hundred users attached .
4 We looked at his stone fireplace , cracked horizontally about six feet up from the March quake and moved over to a drafting table .
5 This provides one double row four to six rows in from the hedge and this row requires specially careful tedding .
6 Prisms attached to spectacle frames , a sloping card marked with four targets — ; A , B , C , and D evenly spaced with the outer lines at least six inches in from the edges of the card , and a metre rule .
7 Prisms attached to spectacle frames , a sloping card marked with four targets — ; A , B , C , and D evenly spaced with the outer lines at least six inches in from the edges of the card , and a metre rule .
8 Although there is no speaker grille or cloth for protection , the cone does sit some six inches back from the front of the cab , so you would have to be very unlucky for anything to poke that far in through the narrow slot to do any damage .
9 and six doors up , six doors down from the one we 've sold and get a coloured photograph so that 's the next campaign going out .
10 The kitchen is thus three steps down from the living-room floor level and is paved with the same material — York stone slabs approximately 60mm ( 2–1/2in ) thick , below which a low-pressure piped hot water central-heating system is installed .
11 At the edge of the ribbed level of sidings squat a low cottage , three steps down from the cinder track ( 13 ) .
12 Three years on from the first album , Neneh admits that ‘ the till bells are ringing empty .
13 The train slid out of Winnipeg on time at eight-twenty and I put all my energies and attention into being an unexceptional and adequate waiter , even though always conscious of the ominous presence in the aisle seat , facing forward , three tables back from the kitchen end .
14 Three inches in from the portal , Kirov 's keen eyes picked out the single human hair which he had fixed , with a smear of soapstone , between the door and the bare wooden floor .
15 The stewards had thrown a cordon across the fairway seventy yards back from the green .
16 The whole scheme would involve the placing of a ‘ solar sail , 10 kilometres by 5 kilometres in size , in geostationary orbit 23,000 miles out from the earth where the sun would never be out of sight .
17 We take two sharp lefts and stop again , on the main road fifty yards up from the road we left him .
18 In a letter to The Times , published on 9 May 1931 , a correspondent signing himself ‘ Old Brightonian ’ recalled an occasion when Woods was bowling in a school match and the wicket-keeper , standing some ten yards back from the wicket , was unable to stop a ball which flashed by him to the boundary but was able to field the stump which the ball had knocked out of the ground .
19 It lies now beneath the waters of the lake , about ten miles out from the shore .
20 When he came alongside a trawler 25 miles out from the English coast he asked : ‘ Am I going in the right direction for France ? ’
21 Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch .
22 Five years on from the original 1988 Wagner Report , the group made ten recommendations for the future beginning with the establishment of a new body to take over the group 's function .
23 Today , some five years on from the introduction of Canon 's first mass-market page printing engine , the world no longer revolves around 300dpi .
24 Five years on from The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil , Julie is still recognised as Ruth , the dowdy , downtrodden housewife who adopted a wide range of disguises and underwent major plastic surgery to wreak revenge on her unfaithful husband , played by Dennis Waterman .
25 These new ones obviously , five years on from the other models , they offer a lot more technology .
26 He coaxed the Citation through the downwind leg and turned on to final runway heading , some five miles out from the airport .
27 sure , there may be some thinking that , there may also though be er if you move through to the forties you 're , y you 're twenty years on from the nineteen twenties , you , you 've had and you 've had deterioration in agricultural conditions er as , as we 've seen you 've got erm increasing landlord absenteeism , you , you 've got a downward , an upward pressure on rent in terms of how much was having to be paid in real terms , all of those things might have come together to , to , to push the peasant over and to push him outside .
28 The wall stood twenty yards back from the road .
29 Here is now , left edge of the penalty area , moving towards the byline and doing well there to take it away from him but at the expense of a throw-in , that 's taken back to Alan , is twenty yards back from the byline and moving back out towards the touchline on the far side .
30 About twenty metres down from the top , Priestley realized that the tin they had left in the cairn in fact contained their exposed photographic plates , and that what they were carrying down with them was the tin containing the record of their ascent .
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