Example sentences of "twenty miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were settled in a remote area of Ross and Cromarty in Scotland , twenty miles from the nearest Asian family . |
| 3 | 1 on the ground , having been flown from their barracks in Omagh some twenty miles away . |
| 4 | Madeleine replied with the news that she had been promoted and was moving to a town not twenty miles away . |
| 5 | Night marches now and then to keep the men fit — not exactly a picnic doing twenty miles at night over cobbles . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The heavier load of accessories and metal trim drove up petrol consumption : from twenty miles per gallon the average dropped to fifteen and below . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For instance , Abdulraham Bu Riziq spent most of the year in camp about twenty miles from Ajdabiya . |
| 11 | Twenty miles south of Boulogne , try The Hotel de France , 2 rue Coquempot , Montreuil . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The road ran straight across the desert for twenty miles . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He soon became a familiar hazard with his dog Kim , ‘ the village terror ’ , and his car in which he would career at fully twenty miles an hour down the narrow lanes . |
| 18 | This survey has covered an area twenty miles around Kendal , a well-established wool town since Medieval times with the appropriate motto , WOOL IS MY BREAD . |
| 19 | ‘ I calculate we 're within twenty miles of the turn-off to Freiburg . |
| 20 | The man had never seen it , although it lay only twenty miles to the north . |
| 21 | Of course no one pointed out then that in nine out of ten such cases the body would most likely be found on the beach sooner or later , maybe ten or twenty miles along the coast . |
| 22 | There are today , under the square mile south and east of Bullpot Farm , twenty miles of linked subterranean passages . |
| 23 | ‘ It must be twenty miles to land . ’ |
| 24 | I could put everything on my back between villages because , this side of Adrar , they occurred almost every twenty miles . |
| 25 | ‘ At twenty miles a day we should reach Tam by February thirteenth , and if you 're not there by then , Geoff , we 'll be there without you . ’ |
| 26 | The day was the easiest since Reggane and I came to camp after twenty miles feeling strong , with Aulef only two hours away . |
| 27 | The tramway system at its maximum extent , following the take-over of the Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad in 1920 , when there were approximately twenty miles of routes . |
| 28 | But the development of Tilbury , twenty miles downstream , to cope with huge supertankers and modern container handling has kept London in the forefront of commercial shipping . |
| 29 | Castlebar is only about twenty miles from here and Mr Durkin 's automobile can do twenty-five miles an hour . ’ |
| 30 | The Battalion entrained en route to the Lillebonne district about twenty miles from Le-Havre , A company along with B billeted at Gruchet-la-Vallasse , most men in open barns . |