The word "yards" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a unit of measurement, often used to indicate length, and can be used in both noun and verb form. For example: "I measured the garden and it was 30 yards wide."
Within five minutes Laszlo Kiss was allowed to trap a ball from a corner and turn eight yards from the Salvadoran goal before firing past Mora to make it 6-1.
Howard's glider came down only 47 yards from the bridge at Bénouville.
His production of Ben Jonson's The Devil Is an Ass applied the knife to yards of text, and his West Yorkshire Playhouse production of the children's classic Peter Pan was so dark and grim that one set of parents threatened to sue on the grounds that their child had been traumatised.
The issue is what's been done to the steelworks and to the yards.
Michael McGowan's free-kick was met by the Ayr defender Chris Smith only six yards out but he failed to make proper contact, allowing the goalkeeper Graham Stack to smother.
His first touch took him inside Wasilewski, who was sent sliding off into the distance, and then he slid a shot with his right foot past Tyton and into the bottom-right corner from 12 yards out.
A sustained spell of Czech possession ends with Plasil having a pop from 25 yards out.
The visitors started brightly and Hibs survived some early scares before taking the lead against the run of play, Stokes turning and drilling the ball in from 18 yards midway through the first half.
Free-kick for Algeria, right of centre about three or four yards outside the German penalty area.
The attempt to cut out Davis's through ball to the scorer was quite pathetic, allowing Naismith to roll the ball past Olejnik from only eight yards.
Sherriff's deputies say McElroy was about 100 yards (90 meters) away from the home when he shot the armadillo.
