Example sentences of "twenty mile " in BNC.
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| 1 | A list drawn up c. 1375 by Richard Pique , who as archbishop was due annual payments in the form of wine , reveals that virtually all the villages within a twenty mile radius of Reims were planted with vines . |
| 2 | Er if we attended if if we were due to attend a meeting for example in in in Derby , er er twenty mile away ? |
| 3 | One down , one mile on the up , double junction below twenty mile an hour speed limit . |
| 4 | The twenty mile snow-gale of unprotection , |
| 5 | right , twenty mile an hour right , shh twenty |
| 6 | twenty mile an hour right |
| 7 | what 's that mean , so you , what you doing twenty mile an hour you think that you can stop in twenty mile an hour , at twenty feet |
| 8 | what 's that mean , so you , what you doing twenty mile an hour you think that you can stop in twenty mile an hour , at twenty feet |
| 9 | now ask you twenty , what , the thinking distance for twenty mile an hour right |
| 10 | So you clocked twenty mile just following empty buses . |
| 11 | twenty mile an hour on the A forty seven this is where you get a big , some big lorry come along and go and land up my fucking arse |
| 12 | Now there 's a number of recommendations in the study , and that includes the introduction of a twenty mile an hour speed limit , surely that 's going to cause more problems than it solves ? |
| 13 | Of course it will be difficult because at the moment the er the legal minimum is thirty miles an hour in , in any city , but we 'd like to see Oxford as a pilot for a twenty mile an hour speed limit which is no good if you leave the roads as they are . |
| 14 | Well , the next step is , we would very much like the public to let us know what they think of some of her ideas , like turning Cornmarket into northbound only , like the twenty mile an hour speed limit and some of her ideas for High Street . |
| 15 | He was the grandson of a traditional Kikuyu smith who made spears and knives in the late nineteenth century in a small village about twenty miles from Nairobi . |
| 16 | They were settled in a remote area of Ross and Cromarty in Scotland , twenty miles from the nearest Asian family . |
| 17 | 1 on the ground , having been flown from their barracks in Omagh some twenty miles away . |
| 18 | Madeleine replied with the news that she had been promoted and was moving to a town not twenty miles away . |
| 19 | Night marches now and then to keep the men fit — not exactly a picnic doing twenty miles at night over cobbles . |
| 20 | Shiloh was some twenty miles from the camp , but the storyteller does not dwell on the sight of the Israelites ( and the Philistines , too ! ) twiddling their thumbs while the runner and then the ark are on their way . |
| 21 | The heavier load of accessories and metal trim drove up petrol consumption : from twenty miles per gallon the average dropped to fifteen and below . |
| 22 | From the Village which was called Haverstock , through twenty miles of Warwickshire countryside and three of brick and brown Midlands , home to 14 Maxstone Villas . |
| 23 | She was to travel the twenty miles by train , into the city , and they were to meet , in the restaurant of Marshall and Snelgrove , to have coffee and talk , to shop together for this and that , a new spring suit , some curtain material , a lampshade and the Ceylon tea nobody would stock in the village , and back for lunch , and then for tea , with aching feet and happy conversation , until their trains home . |
| 24 | For instance , Abdulraham Bu Riziq spent most of the year in camp about twenty miles from Ajdabiya . |
| 25 | Twenty miles south of Boulogne , try The Hotel de France , 2 rue Coquempot , Montreuil . |
| 26 | Work at B.P. went on twenty-four hours a day , in three shifts : 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. , 4 p.m. to midnight , and midnight to 9 a.m. , and added to this was the time spent in travelling to and from our billets some twenty miles away , which usually took just over an hour . |
| 27 | The road ran straight across the desert for twenty miles . |
| 28 | The water converged on Heymouth , having dropped hundreds of feet in its half-mile race to the sea , at a velocity of over twenty miles per hour . |
| 29 | One extraordinary Sellafield story among many is of the dredging of the harbour at Maryport , twenty miles north of the plant , in order to build a marina . |
| 30 | Two of Britain 's largest conurbations , Bristol and Cardiff , lie respectively thirty-five and twenty miles to the north , the former directly in the path of the prevailing westerly winds . |