, directional signposting on some regional roads in Ireland remains poor, with even modern signage usually relying on fingerpost signposts located directly at junctions.

At the junction itself, either a flag sign-a sign with a triangular point at one end and a chevron-or ( on rural roads ) a fingerpost points the driver in the direction to be taken.

A fingerpost sign along the A46 in South Gloucestershire.

Often junctions are signed with only a fingerpost.

R348 near Woodlawn, Co. Galway with mixture of fingerpost and improved signposts.

The area gets its name from the historic fingerpost which formerly stood at the crossroads but now stands adjacent to the entrance to the pub.

As best as I could determine, we were some 700 miles west of New Guinea, in the Bismark Archipelago.

Providence finally managed to get Gorton out of the town, and he and some friends bought land at Pawtuxet on the west side of Narragansett Bay, five miles south but still within the jurisdiction of the Providence colony.

On Thursday evening we may go out of town together by some stage or mail about the distance of ten or twelve miles.

It is well to bear in mind that gasoline will cost from $.80 to $.90 for the equivalent of a United States gallon and while you might prefer a familiar Ford, Chevrolet or even a Cadillac, which are available in some countries, it is probably wiser to choose the smaller European makes which average thirty, thirty-five and even forty miles to the gallon.

In the first trial an inert substance was disseminated from a boat travelling some ten miles off shore under appropriately selected meteorological conditions.

The particles traveled a maximum detected distance of some 450 miles.

For many years the Northwest Company had its southern headquarters at Prairie Du Chien on the Mississippi River, some 300 miles southeast of present-day St. Paul, Minnesota.

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

His demands were certainly grand: the concession of a block of territory 200 miles long by 150 wide between the Danube and the Gulf of Venice ( to be held probably on some terms of nominal dependence on the Empire ) and the title of commander-in-chief of the imperial army.

The modern city not only encloses the entire harbor but takes up the better part of the Gulf of Ajaccio and in suburban form extends for some miles up the valley of the Gravona River.

The whole territory, from the junction of the Kokcha river with the Amu Darya on the north-east to the province of Herat on the south-west, was some in length, with an average width from the Russian frontier to the Hindu Kush of 114 miles ( 183 km ).

With a short lift in the mist, Cadogan soon discovered the smartly ordered lines of Villeroi ’ s advance guard some four miles ( 6 km ) off ; a galloper hastened back to warn Marlborough.

Columbanus accordingly obtained from King Gontram the Gallo-Roman castle named " Luxovium " ( Luxeuil ), some eight miles distant from Annegray.

In 1908, William Barks ( in an attempt to increase the family income ) moved with his family to Midland, Oregon, some miles north of Merrill, to be closer to the new railway lines.

It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement.

At the outer edge of the reef shelf, the bottom slopes very steeply into deep water, at some locations dropping to more than 1, 500 feet ( 457 m ) within 0. 6 miles ( 1 km ) of the shore.

The small band of adventurers dragged as much gold and silver as they could carry back across some 18 miles of jungle-covered mountains to where they had left the raiding boats.

Île du Lys, located at about five miles ( about 8 km ) northeast of Grande Glorieuses, is about long and consists of sand dunes and scrub with some mangroves.

It formed the backbone of a waterway stretching some 382 miles ( 614 km ), linking a number of lakes and rivers to provide a route from Gothenburg ( Swedish: Göteborg ) on the west coast to Söderköping on the Baltic Sea via the river Göta älv and the Trollhätte kanal, through the large lakes Vänern and Vättern.

The unit is not used much, but is cited in some United States laws ( e. g., Section 1301 ( a ) of the Submerged Lands Act, which defines state seaward boundaries in terms of geographic miles ).

Within a few years houses were built along some 10 miles of road leading northward from the Free City of Danzig to Gdynia and beyond.

He was held in " Vladimir Central Prison ", some 100 miles east of Moscow.

Incorporated in 1906, the original townsite was some miles to the south.

Marlow leaves that station with a caravan to travel on foot some two hundred miles deeper into the wilderness-to the Central Station, where his steamboat is based-the steamer he is to captain.

Western and southern Iraq is a vast desert region covering some 64. 900 square miles ( 168. 000 square km ), almost two-fifths of the country.

She had to move in some direction -- any direction that would take her away from this evil place.

The marine was sprawled some thirty yards away, one arm extended.

At least a dozen men, some armed, are never far away from him.

and then I came to some sanity and plunged away with such extraordinary speed that I outdistanced Cousin Simmons by far.

Wherever you looked, you saw Committeemen running across the meadows, some away from the road, some toward it, some parallel to it ; ;

And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.

For a moment she thought of answering with the truth but she knew there were men who shied away from virginity, who demanded some degree of education in body as well as mind.

This movement of industry away from the central cities is not so catastrophically new as some prophets seem to believe.

`` Not too much time, because I'll be needing some more myself pretty much right away.

I practically had to sign your life away, you'll probably fire me for some of the deals I had to go for, but '' --

She put the violin away and took out some linen, needles and yarn to while away the long, idle days in Budapest.

It was so cold and so wretched that a sort of desperate gaiety infected all of them, like people stormbound or shipwrecked or caught in some other freak of circumstance so that time stood still and minor anxieties fell away and the only important thing was to cling together and survive.

He swung around, eyes toward the bedroom, some fifteen feet away.

This algorithm is often more numerically reliable than the naïve algorithm for large sets of data, although it can be worse if much of the data is very close to but not precisely equal to the mean and some are quite far away from it.

In one version of the myth of Tantalus, part of Tantalus ' crime is that after tasting ambrosia himself, he attempts to steal some away to give to other mortals.

His father went away to attend to some other business, and Abu Bakr was left alone with the idols.

Yet Arnulf did achieve some successes, in particular in 895, when Bohemia broke away from Great Moravia and became his vassal.

Various Arab and Berber tribes fought each other for varying degrees of power, some cities tried to break away and form their own state, and even members of Abd al-Rahman's family tried to wrest power from him.

Though some explain Housman's unexpected failure in his final exams as a result of Jackson's rejection, most biographers adduce a variety of reasons, indifference to philosophy, overconfidence in his praeternatural gifts, a contempt for inexact learning, and enjoyment of idling away his time with Jackson, conjoined with news of his father's desperate illness as the more immediate and germane causes.

Taking these words quite literally, Anthony gave away some of the family estate to his neighbors, sold the remaining property, donated the funds thus raised to the poor, placed his sister with a group of Christian virgins, a sort of proto-monastery of nuns, and himself became the disciple of a local hermit.

The precise formation mechanism is not known for certain, but the most widely accepted hypothesis suggests that the edge of the Cathedral Formation reef became detached from the rest of the reef, slumping and being transported some distance — perhaps kilometers — away from the reef edge.

By 1867, it ballooned to over 400 members, including some clubs from as far away as San Francisco and Louisiana.