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With thirteen minutes to go Murray let fly from twenty yards and rattled the crossbar.
The yard remained active until 1957, when a fire destroyed the thatched barn and cattle yards, leaving the existing buildings.
Generally, each degree of loft on your wedges translates to two to four yards in carry distance.
The pub is very popular with tourists, ramblers and with boaters on the canal, which runs just yards from the 190-year-old building.
And then, when the river was nearly sucked dry, they lined it with railroad tracks and freight yards and dumped industrial waste into its bed.
The canoe slides into the water in the blink of an eye and before you can say Jack Robinson it's twenty yards off shore.
Onside from three yards out, he tries to stab a waist-high opportunity past Mark Schwarzer in the Australia goal and misses it completely.
In the first attack on Saturday evening, two suicide bombers detonated 30 yards apart in a busy mall.
I quickly left the midges behind but they were not about to give up and descending into Tarsaughaun, I could hear the hum at fifty yards.
Tech came after Weinke hard with a variety of blitzes that resulted in four sacks and rationed Florida State to 30 yards rushing.
She walked at a comfortable pace until she was about two yards away from Jen.
Then you wait for an escort to walk you the remaining 40 yards to the main building.
They are walking eight abreast, so that they take up all of the narrow pavement and spill out for several yards into the road.
Follow the well-trodden path through the narrow gorge for about 100 yards, until you emerge to a great view of Loch Lomond.
It consulted a network of international yards before putting its bid to the Ministry of Defense.
In 1715 Liverpool opened the world's first commercial enclosed wet dock, recorded as being 195 yards long by 85-95 yards wide.
If you go to Adobe Walls today equipped with a rangefinder you will quickly see that none of the distant buttes are 1,538 yards away.
Like a klutz, she's done this on a narrow stretch of road with a blind bend less than a hundred yards away.
The ball flew 60 yards, Ronaldo about 30, after the sort of challenge that English crowds adore as much as a clever flick.
Offshore, breakers swelled in the whitecaps and then crashed in the shallow water, strong enough to body surf for twenty yards.
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The boat was some fifty yards from land by now, and was awash in a broken current.
The engineering works and shipbuilding yards at Clydebank are famous, and at Dumbarton there are others almost equally busy.
Twenty yards from this was a cone of black earth twice the height of a man.
Ride down the barranca two hundred yards and you'll come to an alkali flat.
About fifteen yards from the corncrib burned a fire, meant for light rather than heat, as the night was warm.
About twenty blesbuck turned and came straight past John, at a distance of forty yards.
At a hundred yards I gave the signal, and heard the clank and swish of the discharge.
By this time the storm had grown so blindingly thick that we could see but a few yards in any direction.
But the chetah only creeps up to within about two hundred yards, and then runs them down in fair chase.
These and the squalid back-door yards which run down to the bank do not 257 make up an attractive picture to the canoeist.
It is formed by the river bogota, which is hereabouts sixty yards in breadth.
The bola was made by them of a single rounded stone, attached to a strap about five yards in length.
It was scarcely possible to see more than fifty yards ahead of you, so thickly grew the banksia trees.
But once past boulter's Lock, the scenery improves with every hundred yards.
The wickets to be sixteen yards apart, the bowling crease to be eight yards from the wicket.
The destroyer J saw the bow wave of one at a distance of 1,500 yards and headed for it at a rapid speed.
About fifteen yards away, a man bent over a transparent, boxlike contrivance in which something fluttered.
More followed, and, after bracketing, seemed to centre about two hundred and fifty yards in front of us.
A barkentine with a dim light was sighted about 800 yards to the west of Admiral Evans's squadron.
Every few yards they had to climb half rotted tree trunks studded with briary creepers and alive with ants.
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