Fantasy football has been around for decades in a simple form, on a level not far from office pools, with league members tabulating players' scores and yardage from newspaper summaries.
The album's named after a Peak District area on the Yorkshire-Derbyshire borders, not too far from our offices.
He is a family man, with four children, eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, who live in Essex – not far from his offices in Ilford.
It happened not far from the offices of this magazine, and a few people who work here walked over to watch him.
But the modern gastro-pub movement started in 1991 on Farringdon Road in London, not far from the offices of The Guardian newspaper, when David Eyre and Michael Belben set up shop.
Kira lives with Wales's ex-wife in a ranch-style home not far from the offices where Wales, along with a handful of colleagues he generally no longer speaks to, ran Wikipedia a decade ago.
But with armored personnel carriers, Army Humvees and tanks now sitting not far from his offices in Baghdad's Green Zone, Mr. Essawi said he worried that the country's crisis was entering a more perilous phase.
Although venture capital investors are often averse to investing in startups far from their offices, the primary investor in Skype – Draper Fisher Jurvetson – is getting a huge payday from the sale of Skype.
Young, a solicitor-advocate who practises from modern (though far from spacious) offices near Westminster magistrates' court in Marylebone, told me that two of his clients had been unlawfully detained because of recent failings by the courts.
Good location also makes funding easier — VCs, for instance, like the option of visiting their investments regularly and tend not to fund things far from their offices — and an entrenched entrepreneurial culture makes recruiting more effective.
