Example sentences of "a few mile [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earl Robert was and is in residence in his manor of Huncote , ’ said the reeve , ‘ a few miles nearer Leicester . |
| 2 | Ironically , the first three months of 1992 were the wettest in the this part of the country for many years , so that even the flowers in the desert , just a few miles inland , burst into bloom . |
| 3 | A highly significant addition during this time was an underwater ridge from the eastern Pacific ; after accretion it pulled apart to form the San Andreas Fault now a few miles inland from the coast . |
| 4 | Measuring over 200 feet from head to toe it stands proudly on the south of Windover Hill , a few miles inland from Eastbourne . |
| 5 | Wadi Halfa lay a few miles inland . |
| 6 | The Mediterranean climatic zone , and the mode of life associated with it , is restricted to a thin fringe extending only a few miles inland . |
| 7 | Sadleir arrived at Qatif on 21 June at a time when no European had been more than a few miles inland and no maps existed of the interior . |
| 8 | Rocky and sandy sea coasts , rarely on freshwater lakes a few miles inland . |
| 9 | Four rooms are also available at a supplement of £40 ( single £58 ) at the small but elegant Bridgend Hotel a few miles inland ( all private facilities ) . |
| 10 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 11 | At 3500 miles into the Metro 's life , the Rover dealer had to sort out a badly slipping clutch and , a few miles later , replace the brake pads in a effort to cure the soggy feel of the originals . |
| 12 | A few miles later , Rogers asked what Gabriel had been doing in the church . |
| 13 | If Dedham Hall is fully booked — and it may well be — try the best bed-and-breakfast we have ever found , just a few miles away at the Old Vicarage , Higham , near Colchester . |
| 14 | For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions . |
| 15 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 16 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |
| 17 | It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 20 | Oxford itself , the ‘ city of dreaming spires ’ as John Betjeman eulogised it is only a few miles away with all its many and varied attractions . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The National Exhibition Centre and Birmingham International Airport are only a few miles away whilst the new International Convention Centre is only a short walk away . |
| 23 | Poised as it is , midway between the University cities , and on the main line to London , with the M.1. only a few miles away , Wolverton seems like something out of Fanny by Gaslight . |
| 24 | It seems probable that supplies of wire also came from the long demolished Cambridge wire works a few miles away on the River Cam , close to the old road to Dursley . |
| 25 | It might have given him some small comfort to know that , 75 years later , hydro-electric power was successfully produced a few miles away at Coaley Mill . |
| 26 | Impressive as Charfield Mill undoubtedly is , it pales in comparison with its neighbour a few miles away , New Mills at Kingswood , near Wotton-Under-Edge . |
| 27 | His own alma mater , situated a few miles away , was a very different kind of institution , a dingy tower block , crammed with machinery and lab benches , overlooking a railway marshalling yard and a roundabout on the inner ring road . |
| 28 | After two years on the outskirts of Manchester city centre , the Gedges moved to Middleton , a few miles away . |
| 29 | The law of nuisance , therefore , affords little or no protection either to a complainant who is unduly sensitive to an odour emission , or where the use interfered with is a sensitive one , as when the taste of biscuits manufactured under controlled conditions , was adversely affected by odorous fumes from a source a few miles away . |
| 30 | S Group was led by Group Captain Donald Bennett , who we heard was a most formidable gentleman from ‘ down under ’ and who was mostly to be found at Group Headquarters , Huntingdon or at Wyton RAF Station , a few miles away . |