Example sentences of "a few miles from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His shop , just a few miles from the border , was firebombed in 1973 and rebuilt . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A few miles from the coast the landscape turns flat , drab and barren . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | The Jungle Giants nursery is at Wigmore a few miles from the show garden . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A few miles from the house where Irina and I live lies an old churchyard . |
| 17 | The men were waiting for Karen in a hotel room a few miles from the accident . |
| 18 | Iraq 's soldiers retreated a few miles from the town ; its policemen were still there masquerading as traffic cops . |
| 19 | A Northern registered car , believed to belong to the men , was discovered at Annagh , a few miles from the town . |
| 20 | A Northern registered car , believed to belong to the men , was discovered at Annagh , a few miles from the town . |