Example sentences of "a few miles [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A few miles north of Leominster , Berrington Hall is an 18th-century house with gardens designed by the father-in-law of Capability Brown .
2 A few miles north of Banbury , in the village of Cropredy , Prescote Manor dominates the meadows of the Cherwell River .
3 Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance .
4 A few miles north of Thurlstone the new textile settlement at Clayton West had chapels for the Wesleyans , Independents , Particular Baptists , Methodist New Connection and Primitive Methodists , and the new Wesleyan Reform movement met in Aaron Peace 's warehouse , but those who preferred the services of the established church had to climb the steep hill to the ancient parochial centre at High Hoyland .
5 The 114-acre Jordanstown campus is situated in the borough of Newtownabbey , a few miles north of Belfast .
6 The 114-acre Jordanstown campus is situated in the borough of Newtownabbey , a few miles north of Belfast .
7 From here William marched his men to the spot , a few miles north of Hastings , where the Norman and Saxon armies met in bloody battle on October 14th , 1066 .
8 The discovery was made by a farmer 's son , Euan Baird , 16 , who was out walking in a private forestry plantation near the family farm at Scotston , Auchterhouse , a few miles north of Dundee .
9 Harewood House , a few miles north of Leeds , contains the richest collection of Chippendale furniture in the world
10 A famous attempt to resolve the matter is commemorated at Altnacealgach , ‘ the burn of the cheat ’ , a few miles north from Elphin .
11 When you visit the ancient university town of Cambridge and enjoy the historic college buildings along the River Cam , you should not fail to travel a few miles south to Audley End House in neighbouring Essex .
12 Henry VIII impressed the Continent , in the midsummer of 1520 , at the ‘ Field of the Cloth of Gold ’ held a few miles south of Calais , and which lasted four weeks with jousts , summit talks , banquets and entertainment .
13 A few miles south of Meikleour , can be found the point at which the River Isla adds its weight .
14 When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed .
15 When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed .
16 When south of the Mandovi , I stayed in the simpler Prainha Cottages , just a few miles south of Panjim ( Prainha , Dona Paula , tel : 8325917 ) .
17 A few miles south of Cambridge , and just as accessible from London , is Audley End House which is well worth a detour .
18 Listening to the autumn wind moaning across this corner of the sparse Northumberland coastline a few miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed , where Nora Simpson had lived for all of her married life , their memories of her were vivid .
19 A few miles south from Brora , past the Duke of Sutherland 's monstrous French-château fantasy castle at Dunrobin , is the town of Golspie , whose name derives from the old gaelic word meaning the ‘ place of the strangers ’ and although evidence is sparse , it is thought that the strangers in question were Vikings .
20 A few miles south from Bettyhill , named after the infamous Countess Duchess of Sutherland , is another notable Strathnaver memorial .
21 Further north , and a few miles west of Fréteval , which Philip had held since last June , the lord of Vendôme switched his allegiance to France .
22 Large quarry faces at Scrabo Hill , a few miles west of Newtownards , show porous dune-bedded sandstones associated with rippled sandstones and thin layers of clay galls .
23 Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets .
24 A few miles west from Garry Bridge is Queen 's View , a rocky , pine-clad promontory with stunning views westwards down Loch Tummel to graceful Schiehallion .
25 On 5–7 May the Schutzkorps took part in the mass exodus via the Loibl Pass into Austria where it formally surrendered on 12 May to 1st Guards Brigade , under 6 Armoured Div , and settled in Viktring camp , a few miles south-west of Klagenfurt , with other Yugoslav refugees ( see below ) .
26 A few miles south-west of Newbury .
27 At Chernigov , a few miles north-east of Kiev , is the Cathedral of the Transfiguration , begun 1031 and the Church of S. Paraskeva , 1118 .
28 So a male companion and I drove up to the starting point in Glen Lyon , a few miles east of Bridge of Balgie where a bridge crosses the River Lyon to a cattle farm .
29 Large wooded areas are rare in Pembrokeshire due to the strong winds and salt spray , but Cwm Gwaun , a few miles east of Fishguard , is one of the notable exceptions to the rule .
30 San Quentin Point is the third part of a trilogy which began with THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE , CALIFORNIA ( 1975 ) — a foundation block of the " New Topographics " — and was followed by PARK CITY , a book of 102 photographs which describe the construction of a ski resort of that name a few miles east of Salt Lake City , Utah ( published 1980 ) .
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