Example sentences of "[adj] degree north [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It lies 3 degrees north of Gamma Sagittæ , and this is the best way to find it ; it is between Gamma Sagittæ and the dim 14 Vulpeculæ ( 5.7 ) .
2 Excluding the cold tundra , deserts range from 50 degrees North in Central Asia to within a few degrees of the equator in South America , with the result that temperature conditions vary considerably .
3 Twenty-five minutes later they received their first back-bearing from Darwin , indicating that they were one degree north of track .
4 To get back on the track he flew on 270° for 20 minutes , but was then informed they were still one degree north of track .
5 Levels of ClO climbed to five times their normal concentration between latitudes 40 and 60 degrees north between December 1988 and February 1989 .
6 The concept of these ‘ continental ’ Wendy Houses with little canvas porches , plastic see-through windows and PVC-checked curtains could only have been dreamed up by someone who has never been two degrees north of the equator .
7 It was also much further south than it is now — just 20 degrees north of the equator .
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