Example sentences of "[n mass] to the south " in BNC.

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1 As is evident in Figure 2.1 this surface shows many irregularities compared with a simple oblate spheroid ; there is , for instance , a bulge of 76 m near New Guinea and a depression of some 104m to the south of India .
2 Glaxo Holdings , the international pharmaceuticals group , yesterday handed over £800,000 to the South Tees Acute Hospitals NHS Trust .
3 What features of the climate attract people to the South West ?
4 The longstanding drift of people to the south is now less important than the movement of population out from the cities to surrounding smaller towns and to rural areas .
5 In France , the Pacific Oyster had completely replaced the native species to the south of Brittany .
6 The task Force decided to try to herd the elephants through the settlement to in as yet uncleared patch of forest 50 km to the south .
7 The medieval Croatian kingdom which emerged in the early tenth century under Tomislav ( AD 910–30 ) had its base first of all at Nin , 15 km north of Zadar , and later at Biograd-na-Moru , 75 km to the south .
8 In 1991 Bahrain , 450 km to the south of Kuwait City , experienced its coldest May for 35 years , with an average temperature 4 °C below normal .
9 Charles and Louis followed , to encamp at the village of Thury , just over 7 km to the south .
10 The development of this zone appears to be related to the major underthrusting and associated metamorphism of local rocks that has apparently occurred along the Main Central Thrust some 100–200 km to the south of the Indus-Tsangpo suture zone .
11 All rail links with Verdun were soon destroyed by the German bombardment , so Petain ordered the improvement and widening of the sole remaining road to the fortress that from Bar-le-Duc , 48km/30mls to the south .
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