Example sentences of "more than [num] [noun] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | I doubted if she could be more than fifty yards away , but I was n't going to risk missing her — once carried past her , it would be pretty well hopeless to try to find her . |
| 2 | ‘ Why , that 's more than fifty years away . |
| 3 | There is no real connection ; the Coal Sack is no more than 500 light-years away , so that it is in the foreground . |
| 4 | He was on his way to visit a friend in Aberdenn , more than 500 miles away . |
| 5 | My aunts lived not much more than thirty miles away , but it was an awkward , cross-country journey . |
| 6 | The launch was no more than thirty yards away when the Delos , still on even keel , slid gently under the surface of the sea . |
| 7 | He told Hayling that he was keen to help , but could do nothing until he retired in April , more than six months away . |
| 8 | I remember my uncle Tommy Hauxwell , who came to live with us to manage the farm after Father died , telling me about the time Great-Grandad bought a big flock of geese over in Stainmore , which is more than six miles away over the moors . |
| 9 | And with either coast no more than eight miles away , the right beach is reached in minutes . |
| 10 | For the believer the Kingdom as a heavenly reality is no more than one generation away . |
| 11 | You should never be more than two horse-lengths away from your man at any time . |
| 12 | Though the next general election may be more than two years away , the markets have already started taking bets on the outcome . |
| 13 | Rosing told the Times that the new Sun subsidiary is in the ‘ advanced development ’ stages , and that finished products were more than two years away , although people close to the project reportedly say working models already exist . |
| 14 | At the very outside , relief ca n't be more than two weeks away . |
| 15 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 16 | With Harwich and the docks at Parkeston Quay not more than two miles away , and a direct rail line to London , it would have been hard to think of anywhere more convenient for the RCM to set up a distribution centre . |
| 17 | His race was still more than forty-eight hours away . |
| 18 | In the event , the actual amount of excavation was greatly accentuated by orientating the plane more than 45 degrees away from the natural slope of the ground . |
| 19 | If you do pick a clear day , tops from Scafell to Pendle Hill can be picked out and , beyond the glint of Morecambe Bay , Snaefell on the Isle of Man is sometimes visible more than 80 miles away . |
| 20 | If the alternative Freelink pickup and/or set down point is more than 10 miles away from the one your originally booked , we will contribute £5 per person towards any extra costs that may be incurred by you and £10 per person if the alternative is more than 30 miles away . |
| 21 | So what am I doing here , why am I not tucked safely up in bed like most sane people and why is there no prospect of any further rest until we get to Burslem in Stoke , more than 60 miles away ? |
| 22 | This short stretch of line appears in options C1 and C2 , even though the nearest link to the main BR network is more than 60 km away . |
| 23 | Charles adored his country residence , Highgrove in Gloucestershire , while Diana preferred the much smaller apartment she had in Kensington Palace , more than 90 miles away in London . |
| 24 | A representative sample of the adult British population was asked : ‘ If the company you work for had to move its premises , do you think you would or would not move with it and find a new home if it moved more than 50 miles away and gave you financial help to move ? ’ |
| 25 | Sturford , however , was no more than twenty miles away from Cullbridge , so Pumfrey 's take-over at the scene of the murder had been reasonably quickly achieved . |
| 26 | If the alternative Freelink pickup and/or set down point is more than 10 miles away from the one your originally booked , we will contribute £5 per person towards any extra costs that may be incurred by you and £10 per person if the alternative is more than 30 miles away . |
| 27 | Over 40 per cent of Preston 's immigrants came from within a 10-mile radius and only about 30 per cent had come in from more than 30 miles away . |
| 28 | But windows were reported to have been blown out in homes more than 1,000 yards away . |
| 29 | It also seemed a reasonable timescale , given the first site meeting on 5th March , for the work to take place in June , more than 3 months away . |
| 30 | This event last occurred in 1928 and it is a measure of the immense volume of water released that there was flooding on the Punjabi Plains , more than 800 miles away . |