Example sentences of "[noun prp] [art] few miles " in BNC.

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1 For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions .
2 The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road .
3 At the Sedgwick memorial , the main street continues ahead and a branch turns right , these rejoining at Cowgill a few miles further on ; this branch road will be described on the return journey .
4 Subsequent to the date of the surrender , according to local farmers , many Croats were machine gunned in a small valley near Poljana a few miles across the border from Bleiburg inside Yugoslavia .
5 The Jungle Giants nursery is at Wigmore a few miles from the show garden .
6 The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert .
7 Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra .
8 One similar order affected a shellfish farm in Loch Moidart a few miles further north , but that was granted to the Government 's Sea Fish Industry Authority for research .
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