Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun pl] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ It 's only fifty miles to the coast of the USSR . |
| 2 | Cohen ( 1955 ) devotes only three pages to the control of delinquent subcultures and states that ‘ from a diagnosis of a social ill , even a correct one , the ‘ right ’ solution does not leap to the eye in any obvious way ’ ( ibid. , p. 177 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He said the Rover was about thirty years old ( 'and that 's a damn sight younger than I am' ) and that it did only sixteen miles to the gallon . |
| 5 | The shopping facilities of Beverley are only nine miles to the east and the M62 motorway starts at the western end of the village . |
| 6 | On the whole , it seems unlikely that Knossos ' territory extended only half-way to Arkhanes , only 8 kilometres to the south of Knossos . |
| 7 | The man had never seen it , although it lay only twenty miles to the north . |
| 8 | After all , it 's only two days to the flotation . ’ |
| 9 | There are basically four elements to the proposal : |
| 10 | But with only 34 days to the election , he said on TV : ‘ I made a mistake . |
| 11 | Yet Switzerland is only 20 miles to the north and a three-hour car drive will take you to any one of five different countries . |
| 12 | Prices with accommodation in Havana and the Playa del Este ( some of the best beaches only 20 miles to the east ) from £695 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then , in the late 1970s , a new motorway thrust through the county and a junction was constructed just six miles to the west . |
| 15 | One of the most interesting marshland villages is Alvingham , situated just three miles to the north-east of Louth . |
| 16 | This will be the first time Bamert has conducted the work — ‘ the RSNO think I suggested it , and I think they did ’ — exactly ten years to the month since he made his debut with the then Scottish National Orchestra . |
| 17 | Fork down to the right after 3.5 miles and go approx 50 yds to the river . |
| 18 | Cadets from Forres , Lossiemouth and Aberdeen Airport decided to research the accident and erect a cairn and plaque commemorating the crash exactly 50 years to the day after the accident . |
| 19 | Now what I said to you approximately two minutes to the side that 's fine if you want to know how many words , who kno , who knows roughly how many words in two minutes ? |
| 20 | Most of the older children go on to South Hunsley school — approximately two miles to the west in the village of Melton . |
| 21 | In the 1590s it appeared that there were already two reversioners to the post of Clerk to the Privy Seal , when a request came from Edward Reynolds for a third . |
| 22 | THE Gulf War hostage dubbed the ‘ Bride of Baghdad ’ has had a baby girl … exactly two years to the HOUR after she was captured in Iraq . |
| 23 | ON THURSDAY — exactly 20 years to the day since their son went missing — Joan and Ted McDermott made the emotional journey back to Belfast . |
| 24 | Finally , the Council even negotiated in secret from the Assembly : Demosthenes ( ii.6 , with Theopompus F 30a ) mentions a secret pact made in the 350s between the Athenian Council and Philip II of Macedon to exchange Pydna , which Athens held , for Amphipolis ; and the continuous text of the Oxyrhynchus Historian begins with the sailing of a trireme under one Demainetos to the south-east Aegean ‘ not on the instructions of the people ’ , but after Demainetos had unveiled his plans in secret to the Council . |
| 25 | And so it proved , for the horse with no chance was not going to accommodate the pundits now : Foinavon jumped the last two and set off up the run-in still twenty lengths to the good . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's still two weeks to the Moulid . ’ |
| 27 | It was nearly 21 years to the day since joined ( as it was then ) as a salesman in Dorset . |
| 28 | It was only then , for example , that John Bright , busy Member of Parliament , revealed that his stepmother , who had lived alone as a widow for nearly thirty years to the age of 95 , the last ten years blind , was visited daily by his own wife ‘ to chat with her and to cheer with her in her solitude and blindness , or to render her any help in her power . ’ |
| 29 | The Bank of Thailand issued a circular to all the country 's banks on Feb. 27 ordering them to give financial information about 22 ex-ministers to the AVC . |
| 30 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |