1.   A few hundreds yards behind are endless sugar cane fields.

2.   Smoke curls up from the jumbled wooden dwellings that huddle tightly a hundred yards up the beach.

3.   Workers who needed an inspector used to walk, often several hundred yards, to sign a log book.

4.   Donkeys graze on the helicopter pad, a small clearing hacked out of the forest about a hundred yards off.

5.   The car was later found abandoned and on fire just a few hundred yards away at Stewart Street in the neighbouring republican Markets district, said the reports.