Example sentences of "just a [det] miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
| 3 | I have a feeling we must be just a few miles from the River Seine . |
| 4 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ski enthusiasts will want to visit the nearby village of Kaprun , just a few miles down the road ; where you can try summer skiing on the Kitzsteinhorn glacier . |
| 7 | Bisham 's medieval Abbey stands alongside the river Thames , just a few miles from Marlow . |
| 8 | And , Germany suffered a massive blow to its pride when the Hindenburg crashed in a ball of flames just a few miles from Nicholson 's home town , Neptune , New Jersey soon after he was born . |
| 9 | They fear that increasing raids from bordering Mozambique just a few miles away , together with the lack of any local security , has turned the area into a no-go zone . |
| 10 | And it gives me great pleasure to personally invite you and your guest , to spend a luxurious weekend on the Craigendarroch Country Estate , just a few miles from Balmoral in the heart of Royal Deeside . |
| 11 | Indeed , for generations the Royal Family have had their own secluded haven just a few miles downriver . |
| 12 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 13 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 14 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 15 | I had imagined , for instance , that I would be able to catch a glimpse of Mount Silisili , a mile-high peak in the centre of Samoa , just a few miles away across the water : I had hoped to do so for no better reason than that Mount Silisili would be enjoying precisely the same clock time as here in Tonga , but exactly one day before . |
| 16 | This charming house is prettily and conveniently set in a rural position , just a few miles outside Chester . |
| 17 | A handful of houses , a trout farm and the watermill are all that remain today in this tranquil backwater nestling at the foot of the wolds , just a few miles away from Alford . |
| 18 | One such hamlet is Somersby , in the heart of the wolds , just a few miles east of the market town of Horncastle . |
| 19 | When south of the Mandovi , I stayed in the simpler Prainha Cottages , just a few miles south of Panjim ( Prainha , Dona Paula , tel : 8325917 ) . |
| 20 | When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed . |
| 21 | Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance . |
| 22 | Two years later , in 1318 , the Scots captured Berwick after twenty years in English possession and then advanced southwards almost to Pontefract : while burgesses of Ripon escaped the sacking of their town by payment of a thousand marks , just a few miles away the monks of Fountains abbey were similarly purchasing mercy from the invaders . |
| 23 | Its proximity to Austria , just a few miles away , and to Lindau , the old German city on the opposite shore reached in a short journey by direct lake steamer , has cast its influence and given it a faintly cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 24 | The sitters are evidently at their ease , and in the background we see a representation of the Dutch House at Kew , a favourite place just a few miles from London where they could escape from the formalities of public life . |
| 25 | As we loaded the dishwasher and admired Blanc 's new Miele kitchen , Raymond re-entered — beaming — to confirm the secret wedding in the village of Wheatley , just a few miles from his world-famous restaurant and hotel , Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons , Great Milton , Oxford . |
| 26 | It was good advice , as she discovered just a few miles out of town when , as he 'd predicted , she found herself in a very different environment . |
| 27 | He 's now considering tackling the Southern Upland Way , starting in Galloway in the West and walking through the Borders to Cockburnspath , just a few miles from his home in Innerwick . |
| 28 | From the Garrimpos Just a few miles down stream , the silvery waters of the Cristolino flow into the Tellisperos river , and vanish , stained by it 's burden of silt . |
| 29 | When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed . |
| 30 | New York is n't exactly just a few miles down the road . ’ |