Example sentences of "a few miles [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Subsequent to the date of the surrender , according to local farmers , many Croats were machine gunned in a small valley near Poljana a few miles across the border from Bleiburg inside Yugoslavia . |
| 32 | A few miles down the road , at the village of Sesfontein , a political rally was under way . |
| 33 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 34 | Ski enthusiasts will want to visit the nearby village of Kaprun , just a few miles down the road ; where you can try summer skiing on the Kitzsteinhorn glacier . |
| 35 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 36 | ‘ Do you know that your characters are alive today , only a few miles down the road in Geneva ? |
| 37 | New York is n't exactly just a few miles down the road . ’ |
| 38 | A few miles down the road is Jackdaws Castle … a new yard with an old hand in charge … david Nicholson. , . |
| 39 | PLANS to turn the site of a former explosives factory at Annan , Dumfriesshire , into Scotland 's top rallying centre were put forward yesterday by the 300-strong Wigton Motor Club which is based a few miles over the Border in Cumbria . |
| 40 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 41 | As a direct consequence of that success , we believe that the inaugural World Sevens , taking place only a few miles from the company headquarters in Perth and with its strong Scottish flavour through its base at Murrayfield , ideally suited for The Famous Grouse . |
| 42 | In 1989 , living in a motel between Santa Cruz and Watsonville only a few miles from the epicentre of the Loma Prieta earthquake , I had walked with Frank Bardacke in its aftermath down the streets of Watsonville and counted score and score of the old Maybeck homes , tossed off their piers , broken-backed , red-tagged , finished . |
| 43 | With four more rounds to go King can not be caught but he was still disappointed when he spoke afterwards about a race during which victory was snatched from his grasp only a few miles from the finish . |
| 44 | Nearly 6,000 miles away from the fog and frost of Britain , the southern Californian desert just a few miles from the border of Mexico . |
| 45 | Trooper Consiglio was killed in a firefight as the patrol retreated towards Syria , before Corporal Lane also developed hypothermia … he died just a few miles from the border . |
| 46 | His shop , just a few miles from the border , was firebombed in 1973 and rebuilt . |
| 47 | It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house . |
| 48 | I was passed out after a night drinking rice wine and native beer with my band of happy , brother war correspondents in the bar of a hotel a few miles from the front . |
| 49 | WINDY Loch Assynt lies a few miles from the coast , near the picturesque fishing village of Lochinver ; surrounded by a ridge of mountains eleven miles in length , none of which drop below 2,000 feet , crowned by Sutherland 's highest peak , mighty Ben More Assynt . |
| 50 | We were only a few miles from the coast , but in the days before we had our own car , visits to the sea were exciting expeditions . |
| 51 | A few miles from the coast the landscape turns flat , drab and barren . |
| 52 | ‘ As the cockle-gatherers of Penclawdd , the seaside village a few miles from the Eisteddfod field realise only too well , the ebb never leaves empty-handed it leaves behind traces of new life . |
| 53 | The Jungle Giants nursery is at Wigmore a few miles from the show garden . |
| 54 | Green 's memorial tablet is in the church of St Mary the Virgin at Monken Hadley , only a few miles from the College 's Hawkshead campus . |
| 55 | A few miles from the house where Irina and I live lies an old churchyard . |
| 56 | The men were waiting for Karen in a hotel room a few miles from the accident . |
| 57 | Iraq 's soldiers retreated a few miles from the town ; its policemen were still there masquerading as traffic cops . |
| 58 | A Northern registered car , believed to belong to the men , was discovered at Annagh , a few miles from the town . |
| 59 | A Northern registered car , believed to belong to the men , was discovered at Annagh , a few miles from the town . |