Example sentences of "a few miles to " in BNC.
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1 | A few miles to the east of Cirencester is the pretty village of Ampney Crucis , the Ampney Brook flowing through its centre . |
2 | A few miles to the south east of New Mills , east of Hillesley , stands the lovely little mill at Kilcott . |
3 | Hermitage with its tiny church dozes beneath High Stoy from where Grace Melbury watched her erring husband ride away on one of his visits to Mrs Charmond , and , a few miles to the west , Melbury Bubb is tucked beneath Bubb Down Hill , seemingly oblivious to the outside world . |
4 | A refinery was built for the industry at Pumpherston , a few miles to the east , and opened in 1884 . |
5 | 1849 the women were moved to the manor house at Dalston , a few miles to the north , but the institution 's functions were subsumed in those of other bodies . |
6 | During the previous day a major naval battle had ensued a few miles to the east , and had continued into the night — the ‘ Battle of Matapan ’ ; a resounding defeat for the Italian Fleet . |
7 | Across the marches , a few miles to the north-east of Willoughby is Markby . |
8 | Ovedale , another esquire of the body , was from Wickham , a few miles to the east , while Kelsale , a yeoman usher , was customer of Southampton . |
9 | Dragging with them seventeen unwieldy brass cannon from Edinburgh castle , they took Norham castle on the south bank of the Tweed , and pressed on a few miles to Flodden in Northumberland . |
10 | A few miles to the south-west of Beverley the Scots raised their standard on the beacon at Hunsley , which marks almost the southern end of the Wolds and looks out across the Humber to Lincolnshire and across the Vale of York towards Selby and Doncaster . |
11 | But if it is military evidences that you are pursuing , then I would leave Tarbes and go instead to the splendid castle of Montaner , a few miles to the north-west — not quite Pyrenean I will admit , but near enough and certainly good enough to be brought in here . |
12 | The landscape in this area of south-east Cambridgeshire and north-east Hertfordshire is certainly very different from that in Fig 7 only a few miles to the south-east ; until the nineteenth century it was a land of open fields . |
13 | The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert . |
14 | He remembered staring out from the nest site on a clear cold morning and seeing a line of grey-blue a few miles to the north which they said was the sea . |
15 | On the fourth day we moved our camp a few miles to the east , where our trackers maintained we should find the nyala more numerous ; this proved to be the case . |
16 | Ovedale , another esquire of the body , was from Wickham , a few miles to the east , while Kelsale , a yeoman usher , was customer of Southampton . |