Example sentences of "a [adj] miles [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Dyfed ( formerly Pembrokeshire ) Hancock et al. ( 1983 ) locate the Variscan Front in a zone of conjugate folds and thrusts a few miles north of the Johnston Thrust . |
| 2 | He was on patrol with two other UN military observers when the mine exploded as they were driving around a small bridge a few miles north of the temples in Siem Reap province . |
| 3 | The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border . |
| 4 | They were in Carlisle , just a few miles south of the Scottish-English border . |
| 5 | Toftingall , which lies a few miles south from the village of Watten , was one of the first Caithness lochs we fished . |
| 6 | Just a few miles west in the grounds of Nuneham Conference Park stands another folly which has ended up in an unexpected place . |
| 7 | The fire probably started in a rubbish dump , above an old strip mine a few miles east of the town , in May 1962 . |
| 8 | One such hamlet is Somersby , in the heart of the wolds , just a few miles east of the market town of Horncastle . |
| 9 | Howard spent the night of 19th August at Camas Meadows , a few miles south-east of the Nez Perce camp . |
| 10 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 11 | A thousand miles northeast of the Grand Canyon , ancient rocks of about the same age as those beside the Colorado River outcrop on the shores of Lake Superior . |
| 12 | Throughout the country , mileage restrictions on operational vehicles and on essential users include the following : ’ in the north west of the County , an area 20 miles across , was patrolled by an Area car with a 40 miles allocation for an 8 hour tour of duty ; in the conurbation the panda vehicles were restricted to 28 miles for each 8 hour shift ’ . |