Example sentences of "a [adj] miles [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His work was paralleled by that of William Greenwell [ q.v. ] , but whereas Greenwell extended his researches over all the northern English counties and Gloucestershire , Mortimer confined his activities to the region within a few miles of his base at Driffield . |
| 2 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 3 | For instance , through most of history , and in most parts of the world ( though not , as it happens , in our modern world ) , individual humans have seldom strayed more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 4 | It happened in 1913 at Senghenydd in mid-Glamorgan , a mining village just over the hill and the moorland a few miles from my home . |
| 5 | With painful slowness it carried him to the station a few miles from his home . |
| 6 | He 's now considering tackling the Southern Upland Way , starting in Galloway in the West and walking through the Borders to Cockburnspath , just a few miles from his home in Innerwick . |
| 7 | It was found a few miles from his car on the seashore near Great Yarmouth . |
| 8 | The isolation — I have only once been in an admission ward less than a dozen miles from my home — and the physical environment — inappropriate design , upstairs dormitories that must be locked all day , uninvolving regimentation — are aspects of a system of care whose inadequacies should not be underestimated . |
| 9 | What he did not tell me — and I only learnt during the course of the journey — was that we were adding about a thousand miles to our route . |
| 10 | Big enough for a giant X to have mysteriously appeared in mid-town Manhattan and another not a million miles from his flagship shop in Brooklyn . |
| 11 | Now he faces the prospect of having to go to a school more than a hundred miles from his home . |