Example sentences of "few miles [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets . |
| 2 | Large quarry faces at Scrabo Hill , a few miles west of Newtownards , show porous dune-bedded sandstones associated with rippled sandstones and thin layers of clay galls . |
| 3 | Further north , and a few miles west of Fréteval , which Philip had held since last June , the lord of Vendôme switched his allegiance to France . |
| 4 | Harewood House , a few miles north of Leeds , contains the richest collection of Chippendale furniture in the world |
| 5 | A few miles north of Banbury , in the village of Cropredy , Prescote Manor dominates the meadows of the Cherwell River . |
| 6 | In Dyfed ( formerly Pembrokeshire ) Hancock et al. ( 1983 ) locate the Variscan Front in a zone of conjugate folds and thrusts a few miles north of the Johnston Thrust . |
| 7 | The 114-acre Jordanstown campus is situated in the borough of Newtownabbey , a few miles north of Belfast . |
| 8 | The 114-acre Jordanstown campus is situated in the borough of Newtownabbey , a few miles north of Belfast . |
| 9 | From here William marched his men to the spot , a few miles north of Hastings , where the Norman and Saxon armies met in bloody battle on October 14th , 1066 . |
| 10 | A few miles north of Leominster , Berrington Hall is an 18th-century house with gardens designed by the father-in-law of Capability Brown . |
| 11 | Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance . |
| 12 | A few miles north of Thurlstone the new textile settlement at Clayton West had chapels for the Wesleyans , Independents , Particular Baptists , Methodist New Connection and Primitive Methodists , and the new Wesleyan Reform movement met in Aaron Peace 's warehouse , but those who preferred the services of the established church had to climb the steep hill to the ancient parochial centre at High Hoyland . |
| 13 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 14 | He was on patrol with two other UN military observers when the mine exploded as they were driving around a small bridge a few miles north of the temples in Siem Reap province . |
| 15 | The discovery was made by a farmer 's son , Euan Baird , 16 , who was out walking in a private forestry plantation near the family farm at Scotston , Auchterhouse , a few miles north of Dundee . |
| 16 | Henry VIII impressed the Continent , in the midsummer of 1520 , at the ‘ Field of the Cloth of Gold ’ held a few miles south of Calais , and which lasted four weeks with jousts , summit talks , banquets and entertainment . |
| 17 | The horse-drawn Whitby and Pickering Railway of George Stephenson ( q.v. ) required the building of the Moorgate bridge in 1835 , a few miles south of this village on the North York Moors . |
| 18 | A few miles south of Cambridge , and just as accessible from London , is Audley End House which is well worth a detour . |
| 19 | Listening to the autumn wind moaning across this corner of the sparse Northumberland coastline a few miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed , where Nora Simpson had lived for all of her married life , their memories of her were vivid . |
| 20 | When south of the Mandovi , I stayed in the simpler Prainha Cottages , just a few miles south of Panjim ( Prainha , Dona Paula , tel : 8325917 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They were in Carlisle , just a few miles south of the Scottish-English border . |
| 25 | A few miles south of Meikleour , can be found the point at which the River Isla adds its weight . |
| 26 | But a few miles south-west of these peaks are the Low Tatras . |
| 27 | On 5–7 May the Schutzkorps took part in the mass exodus via the Loibl Pass into Austria where it formally surrendered on 12 May to 1st Guards Brigade , under 6 Armoured Div , and settled in Viktring camp , a few miles south-west of Klagenfurt , with other Yugoslav refugees ( see below ) . |
| 28 | A few miles south-west of Newbury . |
| 29 | Large wooded areas are rare in Pembrokeshire due to the strong winds and salt spray , but Cwm Gwaun , a few miles east of Fishguard , is one of the notable exceptions to the rule . |
| 30 | So a male companion and I drove up to the starting point in Glen Lyon , a few miles east of Bridge of Balgie where a bridge crosses the River Lyon to a cattle farm . |