Sentence examples for two miles upstream from inspiring English sources

Two miles upstream there was Rennes-sur-Loue -- even smaller than Port-Lesney -- and teenagers leaping from a stone bridge into a deep dammed-up pool far below.

The aftershocks came as soldiers used mechanical diggers to carve a 200-metre channel along the lake, two miles upstream from the centre of the devastated Beichuan county, in an attempt to release the build-up of water.

The largest of the open-space projects, already under way, is a pair of urban parks reclaimed from former rail yards that will give Chinatown a 32-acre park a few hundred feet from the river and, two miles upstream, a small state park that could grow to 100 acres of trails and wetlands.

In 1982, thirty-nine barges broke loose thirteen miles upstream at four in the morning.

Twenty miles upstream from Anaheim, the water district has created the Prado Wetlands.

He came from the town of Quft, about seventy miles upstream of Abydos.

There had even been eels in Albuquerque fifteen hundred miles upstream of the Gulf of Mexico.

During my most recent visit, two years ago, I didn't dare put my toe in the river, even five hundred miles upstream.

My arrival in El Paso, a couple of hundred miles upstream from Presidio, coincided with that of Wisconsin Republican congressman James Sensenbrenner.

From 1996 to 1998, I taught English to college students in Fuling, a small city on the Yangtze some two hundred miles upstream from Wushan.

El-Balyana sits on the Nile's western bank, about three hundred miles upstream from Cairo, where the narrow river valley is surrounded by high, barren bluffs.