Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] few miles " in BNC.
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1 | She was brought up in Cramer , a coastal village a few miles from Dunstanburgh . |
2 | and in October he moved down to Shamley Green , a village a few miles outside Guildford and within commuting distance of London . |
3 | The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden . |
4 | ‘ As the cockle-gatherers of Penclawdd , the seaside village a few miles from the Eisteddfod field realise only too well , the ebb never leaves empty-handed it leaves behind traces of new life . |
5 | They had caught two men breaking into an antique shop a few miles away from Wellingham , a former private house at the side of the road . |
6 | The latest 280sq miles of fields stretch from the Red Wharf Bay area of Anglesey to a point a few miles from Crosby . |
7 | Tabor , named from a hill a few miles from Bethlehem , was founded in 1420 by the Taborites , the radical wing of the Hussite movement . |
8 | The men were waiting for Karen in a hotel room a few miles from the accident . |
9 | The police had traced the dinghy to Londoners who owned a weekend cottage a few miles away up the Welsh coast . |
10 | But Florida has two other prominent international junior training centres — the Rick Macci International Tennis Academy at Grenelefe Resort a few miles from Orlando and Disney World ; and Harry Hopman/Saddlebrook Resort in the town of Wesley Chapel near Tampa . |
11 | On the fourth day we moved our camp a few miles to the east , where our trackers maintained we should find the nyala more numerous ; this proved to be the case . |
12 | Their house was too small to put us up so we stayed in a new motor camp a few miles further along the road , in Portobello ( odd to get all these Edinburgh names , 12,000 miles away ! ) . |
13 | San Quentin Point is the third part of a trilogy which began with THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE , CALIFORNIA ( 1975 ) — a foundation block of the " New Topographics " — and was followed by PARK CITY , a book of 102 photographs which describe the construction of a ski resort of that name a few miles east of Salt Lake City , Utah ( published 1980 ) . |
14 | Grado Cathedral , built on an island in the lagoon a few miles further south , is similar in design but the workmanship is not of such a high standard . |
15 | We may complain about it many times , but think of its wonderful facility of allowing us to phone that relative in the United States , or a friend a few miles away , or the butcher , or our business , and so on . |
16 | He taught at the College of Further Education a few miles from Spaxton ; she had met him through a rambling club . |
17 | There are many good beaches and a chance to bathe in warmed by Dungeness C , the underwater nuclear power station a few miles offshore . |
18 | With painful slowness it carried him to the station a few miles from his home . |
19 | Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets . |
20 | He was on patrol with two other UN military observers when the mine exploded as they were driving around a small bridge a few miles north of the temples in Siem Reap province . |
21 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
22 | The fire probably started in a rubbish dump , above an old strip mine a few miles east of the town , in May 1962 . |
23 | It happened in 1913 at Senghenydd in mid-Glamorgan , a mining village just over the hill and the moorland a few miles from my home . |
24 | Seventeenth July — I joined about 20 Commandos from the various units around the village on a trip to a quiet part of the beach a few miles from our front-line positions . |
25 | But a far cry from the hard ones used to describe life a few miles away in Orlando where police spokesman Jim Soloman was at pains to spell out the dangers — and with no exaggeration . |
26 | The Magistrate knew , alas , what would be happening when this great volume of water reached the depression made by the giant 's footprint a few miles away … |
27 | ASHINWARI or Afridi tribesman in Afghanistan grows the poppies and sends them by donkey or truck to his cousin a few miles away in Pakistan for processing . |
28 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
29 | Nick took her to a small restaurant a few miles outside Cambridge , where they both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened . |
30 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |