Example sentences of "from [num] [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coat to be trimmed with lustrous black mohair flat braid … all around the bottom , the front edges , the collar , and from six inches upward from the bottom along both side openings to the skirt , with braid 1¼ inches wide … |
| 2 | Last year Mr Bush came from 17 points behind at the polls when a skilful advertising campaign persuaded voters that Michael Dukakis , the Liberal governor of Massachusetts , was soft on crime . |
| 3 | He made one of his expostulatory noises , seldom employed but powerful , and looked at her carefully from ten feet away in the water , lifting his spectacles to the bridge of his nose and then having to peer under them because they were crusted with salt , raising his head rather merrily , like a sea lion balancing a ball on its snout . |
| 4 | Starting from two feet away from the hole , position five balls at intervals of two feet in a straight line to the hole . |
| 5 | Apart from two periods apart from the beginning of the fifteenth century , and I think in certain respects in our own day , and for the rest of the time we were dass land ohne muziek the land without music , I fear . |