Example sentences of "[adv] five miles [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The tiny vessel Miami Vice broke down five miles north of the Liverpool Bar shortly after 11am yesterday .
2 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 .
3 The village of Skidby is situated to the west of the A164 ( the road linking the Humber Bridge to Beverley ) about five miles south of Beverley .
4 For this ceremony he chose the beautiful pleasure garden of Shalimar , about five miles north of Old Delhi .
5 It nestles on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds about five miles west of Bridlington along the A1253 Bridlington to York road .
6 One substantial surviving tower house , about five miles north-east of Sir Walter Scott 's grave in Dryburgh abbey , is that of Smailholm :
7 The King 's army was dispatched and met the rebels at a site now known as ‘ Bloody Oaks ’ , about five miles north-west of the town near Empingham .
8 There are various roads that you can take to get from Bayonne to Biarritz , which is about five miles south-west of Bayonne .
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