Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adj] miles [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1663 , Richard Baxter left London for reasons of health and went to live in Acton , which was then a village six miles west of the capital . |
| 2 | Safety being a dacha in Teplyystan , a village ten miles south of Moscow . |
| 3 | Two intersecting lines of seismic were recorded to 12 sec TWT , the longer north-south line running from the Devizes borehole to a point 10 miles west of Swindon . |
| 4 | Later that evening , in a town many miles north of Weatherbury , a small white shape could be seen walking slowly along a path beside a large building . |
| 5 | The company plans to build a factory at a site 700 miles North of Moscow in conjunction with the Russian Kamaz engineering company and wants Mr Mukwala fluent in Russian after spending six years at Moscow University to help liaise with the local workforce . |
| 6 | There was a child , an eleven-year-old from a farm seven miles south of Coventry , sent off to be a maid-of-all-work in a parsonage in Burnley . |
| 7 | About ten minutes after take off Deacon had reached a position eight miles East of Filfla and a height of 10,000 feet . |
| 8 | He immediately booked a flight to Toulouse , saw a house 35 miles north-west of Toulouse in a small hamlet and realised it was ideal as a home as well as an auberge . |