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Example sentences for "about two hundred yards"

  • In the afternoon I shot a large crocodile on the other side of the river (about two hundred yards) with the little Fletcher rifle, and after struggling for some time upon the steep bank it rolled into the water.

  • It is about two hundred yards wide at its mouth and appears to be shallow.

  • Mr. Ogilvie saw it only across the river, but it appeared to be about two hundred yards wide at its mouth.

  • It is about two hundred yards wide at its mouth, and is said to preserve this width for a long distance.

  • About two hundred yards away, at an angle on the left front, a number of snipers had built some dugouts on Caribou Ridge.

  • In front of the line of about two hundred yards held by B Company there were six or seven hundred of them.

  • For a few miles below the Teslintoo it is a little over the ordinary width, but then contracts to about two hundred yards which it maintains with little variation.

  • Pelly River at its mouth is about two hundred yards wide, and continues this width as far up as could be seen.

  • At the mouth it is about two hundred yards wide, but a great part of it is filled with ever-shifting sand-bars, the main volume of water being confined to a channel not more than one hundred yards in width.

  • Suddenly, and without any apparent reason, an elephant, which was feeding at about two hundred yards from me, gave a trumpet of alarm.

  • The most northerly of these we found to be a low and almost barren sand-cay, crescentic in outline, about two hundred yards in greatest length, and thirty yards in width.

  • Here the line made a short semicircular sweep, and crossed the Bio Bio by a low wooden bridge of about two hundred yards in length.

  • At dawn this morning, before daylight could be called complete, Palliser had happened to look out from the tent, and to his surprise he saw a rogue elephant just retreating to the jungle, at about two hundred yards distance.

  • At length, after a burst of about two hundred yards, the deep and dry bed of a torrent formed a trench about ten feet in width.

  • The noise of the beaters approached nearer and nearer, and presently two splendid bucks with beautiful antlers rushed from the jungle about two hundred yards from me, and scudded over the plain.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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