Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] miles [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coastguards ordered a full emergency alert as the vessel drifted away from the Amoco rig 120 miles east of Aberdeen . |
| 2 | Park your car 4 miles north of Newcastleton at the sign ‘ Lewisburn via Bloody Bush ’ , past Dinlabyre Farm . |
| 3 | The police had picked up the red sports car nine miles south of Ashford in Kent . |
| 4 | The Thai airbus came down last Friday 14 miles north of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu . |
| 5 | ANDY YOUNG ( RP/Kapsco ) sets out in defence of his Scottish Grand Prix title on Saturday , when the 1993 series gets underway with the Lomond Roads 85 miles race on the Rosneath peninsula in the Firth of Clyde . |
| 6 | TRAPRAIN LAW 2 miles south-east of East Linton . |
| 7 | In July 1663 , Richard Baxter left London for reasons of health and went to live in Acton , which was then a village six miles west of the capital . |
| 8 | The Eider and the Shell Tern and North Cormorant platforms also on alert are in the Shell Brent Field 100 miles north east of Lerwick in the Shetlands . |
| 9 | Northern Ireland 100 miles championship , Cloughmills : 1 , John Boone ( South Derry Wheelers ) 4.01.43 ; 2 , R Curry ( Roe Valley ) 4.02.52 ; 3 , J Hunter ( Toyota N Down ) 4.04.31 ; 4 , D Coulter ( Old Bleach ) 4.14.17 ; 5 , J McClean ( Ballymena RC ) 4.27.36 ; 6 , J McConnell ( Kings Moss ) 4.28.13 ; 7 , N Magee ( Bann Wheelers ) 4.35.26 ; 8 , T Blaney ( Ballymena ) 4.37.34 ; 9 , A Hughes ( Kings Moss ) 5.00.42 ; 10 , H Mitchell ( Movilla CC ) 5.00.50 . |
| 10 | It was probably at his suggestion that the Wordsworths walked one evening to Holford , a small village three miles west from Stowey on the road to Putsham and Kilve . |
| 11 | Safety being a dacha in Teplyystan , a village ten miles south of Moscow . |
| 12 | The yacht was unable to make any headway five miles south west of Black Head and the Coastguard reported the weather conditions in the area as poor , with strong winds and a rough sea . |
| 13 | Rescuers were trying to reach the crash scene 60 miles south of Katmandu in Nepal last night — but there was little hope of finding survivors . |
| 14 | The trend of the Variscan front is conventionally drawn to link smoothly across the Severn with the over-thrust Mendip pericline or the Farmborough Compression Zone several miles north . |
| 15 | John Small farms 1,000 acres of windswept plateau 15 miles south of Bristol . |
| 16 | The companies will work closely with BP in reviewing all aspects of the operation of the vessel used to produce oil from the small Donan oilfield 150 miles north-east of Aberdeen . |
| 17 | Important as the victory at Stirling Bridge had been for Scottish pride , there was , after a period of despondency and subjugation , to be an even more significant battlefield above the Bannock Burn two miles south of the town . |
| 18 | Mr Whyte plans to visit the research base at Laspi Bay , in the Crimea 20 miles east of Sebastopol , where Brightness was expected to arrive last night , to ask the Russians to drop their plan . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The spill occurred off Cervantes , a fishing town 105 miles north of Perth , after a fire caused the bow of the Kirki , carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude from Saudi Arabia , to be severed from the rest of the vessel . |
| 21 | The restaurant was packed , Saturday evenings always fully booked at The Magpie , the best eating house in the small commuter town twenty-one miles north of London . |
| 22 | The company plans to build a factory at a site 700 miles North of Moscow in conjunction with the Russian Kamaz engineering company and wants Mr Mukwala fluent in Russian after spending six years at Moscow University to help liaise with the local workforce . |
| 23 | Because the 40 metre-deep main is pressurised by gravity it does away with the need to pump vast quantities of water — at great expense — across London from the Thames 10 miles west of the city . |
| 24 | Two intersecting lines of seismic were recorded to 12 sec TWT , the longer north-south line running from the Devizes borehole to a point 10 miles west of Swindon . |
| 25 | We picked up the Lorrimores ’ car at one point three miles west of Cartier . |
| 26 | Later that evening , in a town many miles north of Weatherbury , a small white shape could be seen walking slowly along a path beside a large building . |
| 27 | On Monday , the Suriname News Agency reported that a group of men had commandeered a bus carrying aluminum workers 60 miles south of Paramaribo . |
| 28 | Trow Mill stands in a picturesque site two miles north-east of the town on the A698 . |
| 29 | There is a hide and footpaths which are open at all times ; the reserve is entered from the A47 road to Pettingoe four miles east of Belleek . |
| 30 | Julie was cut down beneath a nearby tree on the beautiful nature reserve 220 miles north of Durban . |