Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been running , running as hard as he could to break his record for the five miles . |
| 2 | Hospice helpers : Getting ready for the five miles charity fun run organised by Croft Hotels and the Shaftesbury Inn are Sean O'Neill ( 15 ) and Darren Maken ( 15 ) , both from Glengormley with Lynda Watt ( 23 ) from Belfast . |
| 3 | For the first miles it led through thick rain forest before climbing along the flank of a long narrowing valley up into the pine-clad highlands . |
| 4 | The journey took 14 minutes for the four miles , and water was being pumped on the flames two minutes later . |
| 5 | The winner of stage eight was the Australian , Patrick Jonker , who escaped from the leading break of 13 riders with a mile to go and came in 12 seconds ahead in a time of 4 hours 40 minutes 45 seconds for the 125 miles . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll be entering Twin Oaks for the three miles Tommy Whittle Chase , ’ said Richards . |
| 7 | Charlie Swan rides Novello Allegro and also Castlina , a recent Navan winner who goes for the three miles handicap hurdle on the opening day . |
| 8 | Nothing passes during the eight miles to Dimatima . |
| 9 | They race through the 277 miles of the Grand Canyon in six or seven days , drinking beer and spewing exhaust fumes all the way . |
| 10 | The glory of the island must be one of the thousand miles of sandy shoreline which rings the island , acknowledged as some of the finest beachland in Asia . |
| 11 | The position is less clear in the case of the 3,000 miles of inter-urban routes , which account for 60 per cent of Regional Railways ' track . |
| 12 | Whatever the precise total , it is through these waters — found north and south of the 13,235 uninterrupted miles separating Malaysia from Colombia , and east and west of the 9,600 miles lying between Big Diomede Island in the Bering Strait and the Cape Adare in Antarctica — that the axis of the world , some would have us believe , is now turning . |
| 13 | Walsham and McKay 's teammate , Steve Farrell , from Stoke-on-Trent , had launched the decisive move after seven of the 120 miles . |
| 14 | Of the 12,000 miles of rivers in England and Wales , a measly 1,700 miles of non-tidal river are open to us as of right . |
| 15 | Work on the cut beyond the flight went on vigorously and by October 1811 four of the five miles between Foxton and the north end of the Husbands Bosworth Tunnel had been completed . |
| 16 | To make the car , and us , work a bit harder , last week there was snow through most of the 550 miles ; at first wet , then settled and frozen , and later a veritable blizzard . |
| 17 | And strict interpretation of the ten miles and Mr reminded me would just pinch in a little bit erm of the of the West Yorkshire greenbelt . |
| 18 | In his career we catch a glimpse of the medieval miles strenuus . |
| 19 | Hurrying towards the square miles of deafening battering that had been provided to smash open the British Line for their benefit . |
| 20 | Joyce Anderson , of Thornton Hough , said : ‘ We are not really in a race against time , the winners will be the party who come back with the fewest miles on their clock . |
| 21 | Every night she and Ranald helped the old man move four hives up the four miles of rough track to the heather moor . |
| 22 | It took us eight very wet and almost windless days to inch our way up the ninety miles of the Bouton Straits before we could turn eastwards into the Banda Sea . |
| 23 | By the next day , flood warning computers built into the river banks along the 120 miles of the Tay were flashing yellow warning signals as placid tributaries dumped their overload into the river . |
| 24 | It is run by hydro electric power and goes along the 15,000 miles of track at speed in excess of 100 mph . |
| 25 | He then mobilised , with the co-operation of the other companies concerned , an army of platelayers and other company servants who were deployed within sight of one another , all along the 600 miles of railway between Windsor and Ballater ; every yard of the route was narrowly inspected , and every bridge , viaduct , tunnel , and level crossing was closely watched and guarded until the train had passed . |
| 26 | Until 1939 up to 12 , but more usually about seven , pairs bred along the 15 miles of chalk cliffs . |
| 27 | Heading further north , a journey along the 60 miles of coast road is rewarding for its spectacular views . |
| 28 | Heading farther north , a journey along the 60 miles of coast road is rewarding for its spectacular views . |
| 29 | Alcatel Cable SA , Douvrin , France is increasing its optical fibre production to meet demand — when two new plants come on full stream in the middle of next year , annual output will grow to 930,000 miles from the 590,000 miles it did last year , bringing it close to the current number two , AT&T Co , but still way behind the 1.25m miles produced annually by Corning Inc . |
| 30 | Cyclists can use any of Britain 's 20,000 miles of bridleways and certain tracks , but they 're banned from the 100,000 miles of footpaths which causes tension . |