Example sentences of "miles north " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helmets exemplified this ‘ new status ’ for ‘ real polises ’ , for they were not worn in the city force , but were part of the apparel of the surrounding Northumberland County force , whose immediate boundary was only some three miles north of our divisional centre . |
| 2 | The Leroghi Hills are near the town of Maralal , about 250 miles north of Nairobi , part of the homeland of the Samburu , a semi-nomadic , cattle-rearing people . |
| 3 | In addition , the last radio reports purportedly from the Rose-Noelle had been received on 6 and 9 June — days after its capsize — the latter giving its position as near the Kermadec islands , en route to Tonga and 620 miles north of Auckland . |
| 4 | He himself paid two fruitless visits to the site of a camp near Torzhok , 200 miles north of Moscow , where as late as 1987 Wallenberg was said to have been held . |
| 5 | Harewood House , a few miles north of Leeds , contains the richest collection of Chippendale furniture in the world |
| 6 | We 've got a job for your duty recovery crew — there 's been an accident on the autobahn ten miles north of Munster . |
| 7 | Late last night , the Hungarian news agency MTI said it had received telephone calls reporting more than 30 killings in clashes in Cluj , while another source reported clashes in Arad , 60 miles north of Timisoara , where demonstrators were massacred last week . |
| 8 | Only 5 miles north of Oxford , Kidlington belies its modern appearance for it once was an ancient settlement , and in some quiet corners , it still retains vestiges of a village past . |
| 9 | Fifty miles north , Sarah Morgan had just finished serving a lunch that no one had done more than pick at . |
| 10 | Some twenty-five miles north of the Dead Sea a wadi meets the river Jordan from the east , whose stream is called the Jabbok . |
| 11 | It lies some five miles north of Manchester . |
| 12 | Speaking last night from the motel in Kelowna , 400 miles north of Vancouver , where she has lived on and off for the last three years , Mrs Allan said : ‘ I am not coming home until I have got my child . |
| 13 | Rampur was created in the late 18th century and encompassed an area of about 890 square miles , 150 miles north of New Delhi in the United Provinces ( now Uttar Pradesh ) . |
| 14 | Geoffrey Kemp , 58 , farms some 230 acres near Chatteris , 12 miles north of Ely in Cambridgeshire and is no stranger to the effects of drought or erosion — particularly that caused by wind on parched , dry soils . |
| 15 | Malta , 220 miles north of Libya , has long-standing links with Tripoli . |
| 16 | One thousand miles north , still in Western Australia , in the Pilbara I saw other rural schools . |
| 17 | It is around 22 miles east of Cheltenham , 20 miles west of Oxford and 18 miles north of Swindon . |
| 18 | My thirst for real travel was to have its very modest beginnings on the railways of the Midlands when I was at B.P. My journeying consisted of little trips to neighbouring towns within a radius of fifty miles north , south , east and west of Bletchley . |
| 19 | Foxton , a sizeable attractive village in the heart of the rich agricultural lands of south Leicestershire , two miles off the A6 and four miles north west of Market Harborough , is , according to the Shell Guide , ‘ a favourite place for Sunday motorists ’ . |
| 20 | Turning off from the north-south highway some twelve miles north of the Makaa , the track leading to the cabin had been made first by loggers and then improved by a quarrying company some forty years ago . |
| 21 | The village of Weston in which Leapor would have lived for some time was six miles north of Brackley . |
| 22 | One extraordinary Sellafield story among many is of the dredging of the harbour at Maryport , twenty miles north of the plant , in order to build a marina . |
| 23 | One immediate response to the CEGB 's announcement was the formation of the Alliance Against Hinkley C. This brought together a mixture of Friends of the Earth supporters from Bristol — only some twenty-five miles north of Hinkley — and others who had been active in the Somerset anti-waste-dumping campaign of the 1970s . |
| 24 | My father 's mother had been born in 1862 in Wroxton , three miles north of Banbury . |
| 25 | A few miles north of Banbury , in the village of Cropredy , Prescote Manor dominates the meadows of the Cherwell River . |
| 26 | Destination : the tiny fishing village of St Abbs on the Berwickshire coast , seven miles north from Berwick-upon-Tweed . |
| 27 | A famous attempt to resolve the matter is commemorated at Altnacealgach , ‘ the burn of the cheat ’ , a few miles north from Elphin . |
| 28 | Carrickfergus , famed for its Norman Castle , lies on the shores of Belfast Lough , 9 miles north of Belfast . |
| 29 | There is an 18-hole golf course at Cairndhu , 9 miles south of the village overlooking the sea and an attractive 9-hole golf course at Cushendall 9 miles north along the Coast Road . |
| 30 | Two miles North West of Augher village signposts from Auger–Omagh Road . |