Example sentences of "[be] about [art] mile " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the gardens there is a small swimming pool for relaxing days in the sun and when you are ready to venture further afield , the nearest shops are about a mile away and Torre Canne beach is an eight mile drive away . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr. Gould went off in the morning to the Acteon [ sic ] Islands , which are about a mile distant from each other and at the distance of about 3 or 4 miles from Research Bay . |
| 3 | Your Trail will be about a mile long . |
| 4 | We knew the German signals for the night , so we tricked them into holding fire until we were about a mile out , then all hell broke loose . |
| 5 | The best site is about a mile and a half north-west of Coniston village in the upper valley of Church Beck , where there is a Youth Hostel , but many other disused sites are scattered about . |
| 6 | Sigglesthorne has a twin village — Seaton — which is about a mile distant . |
| 7 | This street is about a mile in length and runs from one end of the town to the other ; it is ten yards wide . |
| 8 | Touring Northumberland we visited the site of the battle of Flodden in 1513 , but it is really Branxton Ridge and the monument is near Branxton village Flodden Edge is about a mile away . |
| 9 | For those of you who do n't know where we 're eating , it 's in , it 's in Hall , which is about a mile and a half |
| 10 | It 's about a mile away . |
| 11 | It was about a mile from the village , set back from the road , with tall iron gates , securely locked , at the entrance , and a few yards inside them a lodge . |
| 12 | Jean Henderson , who worked until her marriage ( at the age of 29 ) in 1912 , walked to work in Rose Street , and later to Canonmills , from her home in the Pleasance which was about a mile away . |
| 13 | Liston Hall was about a mile and a half further on , reached by its own private drive . |
| 14 | And of course I loved the town and although the station was about a mile from the town centre , people used to come from the town centre in their cars , they had lunch at our place er er at Cambridge , you see , and there , there were two waiters and one , one of them took part-time cellar work , you see , and er , they were two brothers and er their name 's |