11.   The bombing range is nine miles from the nearest house.

12.   The first place they look is the nearest house, Santamaria said.

13.   The nearest civilian houses are more than a mile away in the Bosnia Serb side of the dividing line.

14.   The nearest houses were more than a mile away and not considered to be in immediate danger, the Forest Service said.

15.   The nearest house was perhaps a quarter mile away.

16.   Two men walked south from the stuck car to the nearest house, broke in and stole three handguns and ammunition.

17.   Police said Muller apparently escaped and ran to the nearest house about a quarter-mile away to call for help.

18.   Still bleeding, she wandered to the nearest house and tearfully called home.

19.   The house was in an isolated location, and the nearest house was nearly a kilometre away.

20.   The nearest houses are several miles away on the other side of the motorway in the small town of Soesterberg, with its thatched cottages.