Example sentences of "somewhere above the " in BNC.

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1 It passes through the confining layer somewhere above the aquifer .
2 After hours of fruitless searching , wandering through the attics and passages of the Shell , I drifted into a dim chamber filled with piles of what seemed junk somewhere above the north quire isle .
3 The streetlights were still orange , daylight remained somewhere above the houses .
4 In a session lasting until one in the morning they had discussed Crime in Society with that lucidity which is only achieved at somewhere above the 100 mg per cent level of blood alcohol and with the comforting knowledge that one does n't have to drive home .
5 Douglas affected a dispatch box pose which enabled him to deliver the juicier bits of the legal volte- face to a point in the mid-distance somewhere above the Opposition gallery .
6 He disappeared into some trees and Charlie distinctly heard a single shot somewhere above the noise of battle .
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