Example sentences of "[adj] miles [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and sell packaging film , covering 700 miles a week between them on the customer round . |
| 2 | He loved to swim and was capable of walking thirty or forty miles a day with a quick , light step described as slightly feminine . |
| 3 | I do forty miles a day |
| 4 | On October 17 , shortly after midnight , Seth Morgan and Suzy Levine approached the right lane of the bridge at about forty miles an hour . |
| 5 | Seth flew forty miles an hour face first into the piling with such force that he uprooted the eight telephone poles . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd settle for a few years with four legs like a cheetah and be able to go at forty miles an hour , ’ Otley declared . |
| 7 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |
| 8 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 9 | As there was now no room left for the driver 's game , he suddenly accelerated past the man and we were again moving down the street at forty miles an hour . |
| 10 | By the time they had received instructions to follow and observe , they had lost it in a swirl of speed at one hundred and forty miles an hour . |
| 11 | I know there have been a number of accidents in that area but I would hope with all these other traffic calming measures we could have kept that speed up to forty miles an hour . |
| 12 | Erm , it 's unusual for anybody to have their speed as low as forty miles an hour so I 'm very disappointed in having a radial road that I think should be a fairly fast route out of town thirty mile an hour speed limit . |
| 13 | Okay , he 's doing forty miles an hour . |
| 14 | So the police say you were doing forty miles an hour . |
| 15 | You say how do you know I was doing forty miles an hour ? |
| 16 | And we , our little machine here has calculated it that that 's forty miles an hour . |
| 17 | The crossing is situated on a very busy dual carriageway where the speed limit is forty miles an hour and I would point th point out this literature which says that at forty miles an hour , if children are knocked into , most children are killed . |
| 18 | The crossing is situated on a very busy dual carriageway where the speed limit is forty miles an hour and I would point th point out this literature which says that at forty miles an hour , if children are knocked into , most children are killed . |
| 19 | Two men have been arrested after a stolen car was chased at up to one ( 140 ) hundred and forty miles an hour . |
| 20 | Police are hunting three men after a hundred and forty miles an hour car chase . |
| 21 | Dene Stallard drops out too with engine problems … but Hill hangs on … skimming across the water at speeds of around one hundred and forty miles an hour … |
| 22 | ‘ Forty miles an hour ? ’ |
| 23 | forty miles an hour in a forty zone and he just got , right up my arse , he was obviously somewhere in a hurry somewhere in a hurry , you know ? |
| 24 | No it 's not they reckon you should leave a two second gap if yo , if you 're travelling at thirty , forty miles an hour . |
| 25 | This one in front has obviously got a fear of going more than forty miles an hour that 's for sure oh |
| 26 | get forty miles an hour down . |
| 27 | You know the fastest speed of one is two hundred and forty miles an hour something like that . |
| 28 | Yes , if they went forty miles an hour , but they do n't . |
| 29 | Then after a few miles the engine stopped again . |
| 30 | In a few miles the traveller passes from the summer droughts and deserts of Africa to the climate of northern Europe . |