Example sentences of "miles south " in BNC.
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| 1 | The City of Nottingham Tennis Centre is situated 3 miles south west of the city centre and a regular bus service stops outside the Centre : Service numbers 13 and 14 from Friar Lane , next to Market Square . |
| 2 | ‘ It was as bad as when I won Wimbledon in 1985 , ’ the 21-year-old multi-millionaire said of the response to this journey to the hamlet home , 50 miles south of East Berlin , of the grandmother of his girlfriend , Karen Schultz . |
| 3 | John Small farms 1,000 acres of windswept plateau 15 miles south of Bristol . |
| 4 | The men were believed to belong to the same group which attacked an army outpost near Kraka , 37 miles south of the capital , on Monday , killing seven people . |
| 5 | On Monday , the Suriname News Agency reported that a group of men had commandeered a bus carrying aluminum workers 60 miles south of Paramaribo . |
| 6 | In Sapinta , three miles south of the Russian border , a chambermaid begs for a packet of ground coffee to meet a doctor 's bill ; when the doctor arrives , he complains wearily that there is no anaesthetic in the hospitals . |
| 7 | Much of the village , the church , farm and the surrounding land of Stanton Lacy has long belonged to the Oakly Park estate , whose mansion lies two miles south on the River Teme . |
| 8 | About 30 miles south of Nashville , in the small town of Smyrna , Tennessee , stands a reply to that description . |
| 9 | THE Great Plains of the United States cover a huge swathe of land , about 600 miles wide , stretching some 2,500 miles south from eastern Montana and western North Dakota through parts of South Dakota , Wyoming , Nebraska , Colorado , Kansas , New Mexico and Oklahoma to west Texas . |
| 10 | Saintes , with Gallo-Roman remains , a beautiful Romanesque abbey and an atmospheric medieval quarter , is 17 miles south of St Jean ; 15-odd miles to the north-west is Surgeres , all of whose public buildings , including an engagingly asymmetrical church , are within the 16th-century castle walls , scattered among beautiful gardens and parkland — perfect for picnicking . |
| 11 | A price of £200,000 is being asked for Newtown Common , 139 acres of rare lowland heath and woodland three miles south of Newbury , by the Tunbridge Wells office of the estate agents Hurley Lloyd Thorpe . |
| 12 | Twenty miles south of Boulogne , try The Hotel de France , 2 rue Coquempot , Montreuil . |
| 13 | Mr Izetbegovic delivered the appeal for intervention as Muslim defenders of the town of Visegrad , 75 miles south of Zvornik , threatened to blow up a dam on the Drina river and flood a large lake if they sighted Serbian territorial defence members , Tanjug news agency reported . |
| 14 | The tree-lined , walled graveyard on the outskirts of the old Czechoslovak silver mining town , 40 miles south of Prague , had been wrecked , more than 150 headstones knocked over by vandals . |
| 15 | The wreck , snagged by a fisherman 's nets in 1989 about 100 miles south of Vung Tau on the coast of Vietnam , was brought to the surface last year and emptied , last week , into Christie 's salerooms in Amsterdam . |
| 16 | In Foca , 50 miles south of the Bosnian capital , Sarajevo , residents sought refuge in schools and hospitals and European Community monitors were refused access to the town as the Serbian-dominated federal army mopped up Muslim opposition . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Cosmeston , which is 5 miles south of Cardiff on the B4267 road , is less than an hour 's drive by car from the Severn Bridge and only 20 minutes directly past Cosmeston on the Cardiff-Barry route : visitors should alight at the Fort Road stop . |
| 19 | The park is situated on the A361 , 2 miles south of its junction with the A40 . |
| 20 | This is a working farm with farm trails and picnic sites , located on B.591 four miles south of Loughborough . |
| 21 | It lies between Burrough on the Hill and Somerby , about six miles south of Melton Mowbray . |
| 22 | Ben Ami lies just five miles south of the Lebanese border , well within range of the Katyusha rockets which were then being fired by Palestinian guerrillas around Tyre and Rashidiyeh ; there were concrete air-raid shelters with iron doors between the bungalows . |
| 23 | The remainder made for the Trig al Ab , a desert track running inland about thirty miles south of the coast . |
| 24 | The oasis lay 150 miles south of Benghazi and the enemy airfields strung out along the Gulf of Sirte . |
| 25 | They were left by the LRDG about ten miles south of the target , and marched through the night to a point where they could observe the target during the following day . |
| 26 | They were well placed for taking the offensive , being 200 miles behind the enemy front line and 150 miles south of the coastal plain . |
| 27 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 28 | My parents had rented a cottage on a farm at Backakeldy , ten miles south from Kirkwall overlooking the sea on the eastern shores of Scapa Flow . |
| 29 | A few miles south from Bettyhill , named after the infamous Countess Duchess of Sutherland , is another notable Strathnaver memorial . |
| 30 | A few miles south , Vindolanda was the home of 500 Roman auxiliary soldiers . |