Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] miles [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a boost in public increase brought about by the opening of the line extension to Glyndyfrdwy the Railway is now clearly in a higher division with a respectable 5½ miles of operating length . |
| 2 | In England and Wales we are singularly placed to appreciate the relationship of scenery and structure , for few other parts of the earth 's surface show in a similar small area so great a diversity of rock types and of landscape features : " Britain is a world by itself " ; its mountains are not high , nor its rivers long , but within a few hundred miles of travel from east to west one may see more varieties of scenery than are to be found in many bigger countries . |
| 3 | ‘ This area , Miss Williams , might encompass a few square miles of countryside , but it will also take in what is now a very unsightly rubbish tip . |
| 4 | Night fell , and after walking a few more miles down country roads , they finally arrived at an old house standing alone by a river . |
| 5 | That was not entirely unexpected , of course , but the unprecedented show of strength for Windows NT cast shadows down a full 24 miles of exhibition aisles . |
| 6 | In Derbyshire , the A fifty two in has a temporary thirty miles per hour speed limit , and temporary traffic lights in operation . |
| 7 | By international standards , Johannesburg is not a great city — about the same size as Stuttgart , in fact — but it has to be remembered that South Africa is a large country , almost half a million square miles in area , with a population that even today is only about 16 million . |
| 8 | He also cited a local laird 's wealth — or lack of it : from a hundred square miles of property , sixty thousand acres , he could raise only four hundred pounds a year , no matter what rent pressure he put on his tenants . |