Example sentences of "[noun pl] a [det] miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rocky and sandy sea coasts , rarely on freshwater lakes a few miles inland . |
| 2 | The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border . |
| 3 | Cloistered in converted farm buildings a few miles from York … craftsmen breathe new life into Fairford 's medieval glass . |
| 4 | The Sussex campus , with its tastefully harmonized buildings in the modernist-Palladian style , arranged in elegant perspective at the foot of the South Downs a few miles outside Brighton , was much admired by architects , but had a somewhat disorienting effect on the young people who came to study there . |
| 5 | There were two smaller islands a few miles away , and after that , only the sea . |
| 6 | Harvey lived with his wife and two children a few miles outside town on the road to Laredo and the Mexican border . |