Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] to the west " in BNC.
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| 1 | Access via a new railway underbridge some 300 metres to the west of the Bypass/Railway crossing with a new road provided to connect the estate roads with Westburn Avenue by following the line of the existing Baberton Mains Farm Access road and crossing over the Bypass by means of a new road bridge . |
| 2 | Stirling , the strategic thinker , had already reasoned that the Afrika Korps would have to re-route their supply lines and that the small port of Bouerat , 300 miles to the west , would become extremely important . |
| 3 | For example , the late John Strachey , former Minister of Food , used to contend that had the notorious African Ground Nuts Scheme been placed just 30 miles to the West of the site chosen in Tanganyika ( now Tanzania ) , the climate differed just sufficiently there that all would have been well . |
| 4 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
| 5 | Then , in the late 1970s , a new motorway thrust through the county and a junction was constructed just six miles to the west . |
| 6 | This is the main highway from Istanbul , which lies about 100 miles to the east , to the Greek border , some 100 miles to the west , and although in most parts it has a good tarmac surface it is in the main single carriageway . |
| 7 | Three miles to the west , near the village of Austerlitz , ninety thousand Russian and Hapsburg troops faced a slightly smaller number of French in preparation for the decisive battle of the campaign . |
| 8 | At the head of a small cavalry force he rode almost non-stop for two days and nights and on 12 February he fell upon Aimar 's routiers as they attacked the church of Gorre a dozen miles to the west of Limoges , believing him to be still somewhere beyond Poitiers . |
| 9 | At 0800 the ‘ Tiger ’ convoy was still some 90 miles to the west of Malta , while the Mediterranean Fleet was 120 miles to the south , but by 1515 the two west-bound Malta-destined convoys , for which the Mediterranean Fleet had also provided cover , had arrived at Malta . |
| 10 | Of the 120 fish types which live at depths of between 500 and 3,000 metres to the west of Scotland , 25 were of potential commercial importance , according to Dr Gordon . |
| 11 | The Eighth Army had suffered a crushing defeat and was digging in along the Alamein line , only sixty miles to the west of the Nile . |
| 12 | Then he put ten flags to the east of the depot — each flag half a kilometre from the next — and ten flags to the west . |
| 13 | Davies 's rivalry with the Bute estate , which controlled Cardiff docks and the Taff Vale railway that served it , led him into another dramatic new venture , the building of new docks at Barry , ten miles to the west of Cardiff , as a rival entrepôt for Rhondda coal . |
| 14 | When they arrived in Portimão , a bustling fishing port some ten miles to the west of Praia do Carvoeiro , the tables which sat in rows in front of the quayside restaurants had already begun to fill . |
| 15 | It was possible that these men were nothing but a strong feint designed to draw the allies towards Charleroi while the real French thrust , fuelled by the Emperor 's presence , attacked twenty-five miles to the west at Mons. |
| 16 | 15 miles to the west , the scenic Severn Valley Railway with its steam trains runs from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth through the pretty Georgian town of Bewdley . |
| 17 | Portsmouth is 15 miles to the west and here one can visit the Mary Rose , HMS Warrior and HMS Victory . |
| 18 | This canon marks the first and crucial step to the creation of ‘ patriarchates ’ , a dignity soon to be shared by Constantinople ( founded 330 ) and Jerusalem , giving the Greek East four patriarchates to the West 's one . |
| 19 | There were even smaller dunes , no more than eight feet high , two hundred yards to the west . |
| 20 | A hundred yards to the west of the church , the long frayed green velvet curtain of the Rectory drawing-room stirred in the sunny breeze of late afternoon . |
| 21 | About a hundred miles to the west ? ’ |
| 22 | Most of the older children go on to South Hunsley school — approximately two miles to the west in the village of Melton . |
| 23 | B Squadron then moved out to their rear base at Bir Fascia , 200 miles to the west . |
| 24 | The canoe of Edwards and Mangnall — 200 miles to the west of the Commander — found the only way to escape the playful attentions of porpoises was to stop paddling . |
| 25 | Also a photograph of the grave of Oberfeldwebel Erich Maack and Unteroffizier Heinrich Haselmeyer who died in the crash of their Heinkel He 111 at a site near the Grimstone viaduct four miles to the west of Dorchester on August 13 , 1940 . |
| 26 | The weather was very rough and it was evident that we were heading into another part of the blizzard ; white cascades of billowy snow swirled around us , as the aircraft roared , bumped and bucketed towards our goal some 400 miles to the west . |