Example sentences of "a mile [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | Three-quarters of a mile south of the church , down a bumpy farm track which was once a well used road , is the greatest beauty of all , a silvery oak-timbered house called The Ley . |
2 | In Bourne Road , a mile south of the town centre , is Bourne Mill , now a property of the National Trust . |
3 | The hamlet of Castle , a mile South of Lostwithiel , has also been suggested as the site of the palace from which Iseult watched for her Tristan across what were then tidal waters but is now a small stream . |
4 | There 's a street called South Parade and , half a mile south of it , one called North Parade . |
5 | CHESTERS HILL-FORT North of Haddington , signposted a mile south of Drem . |
6 | FERNIEHIRST Off the A68 a mile south of Jedburgh . |
7 | Our accommodation is in holiday apartments set in pleasant grounds about 250 to 400 years inland from the sailing beach , and about half a mile south of the town centre . |
8 | The Abbey Lane Pumping Station at the junction of the Leicester Canal with the River Soar , a mile north of the city centre in Corporation Road , was built in 1891 as a sewage pumping works . |
9 | Olga took a room for me just a mile north of Park Terrace — but in another world , the world of rooming houses . |
10 | If the housing market is some kind of barometer for the rest of the economy , it may be time for a mile sigh of relief . |
11 | In the woods near Duddon Bridge , a mile west of the town , are the remains of a charcoal blast furnace , with some ruined buildings and workers ' dwellings nearby . |
12 | In the Sporting Magazine for March 1794 , there appears a ‘ picturesque view of Palfrey 's Infirmary ’ said to be about a quarter of a mile west of Coventry . |
13 | In a field on the north side of the A758 Ayr/Mauchline road , about a mile west of Failford , there is the site of a tumulus that is said to have been the burial place of King Coilus . |
14 | Start/finish : Car park , just over half a mile west of Harbottle village . |
15 | There were other medieval settlements in the area to the east of the church and at Upper Coberley , and this dispersed settlement pattern is reinforced by the possible site of a castle and other earthworks at Dowman 's Farm , half a mile west of the church . |
16 | Police have appealed for witnesses to the crash , which happened a mile west of Bowes at 8.10am on Sunday , between a Vauxhall Cavalier and a hired minibus . |
17 | The hired minibus , which was carrying a group of Newcastle United fans , collided with a Vauxhall Cavalier a mile west of Bowes at 8.10am on a section being converted to dual carriageway . |
18 | The hired minibus , which was carrying a group of Newcastle United fans , collided with a Vauxhall Cavalier a mile west of Bowes at 8.10am on a section being converted to dual carriageway . |
19 | The bus , which was travelling towards Redcar left the road half a mile west of Dormanstown roundabout , hit a lamp-post and fence and ended up on its side in a ditch . |
20 | The head-on collision happened a mile west of Bowes in County Durham at roadworks , where no overtaking has been allowed and the speed limit has been 50mph since road widening started . |
21 | The child 's mother , Alison Margaret Cowley , 34 , of Allerthorpe , North Yorkshire was killed when her car was in collision with a lorry at roadworks a mile west of Bowes , near Barnard Castle on Thursday . |
22 | Her Vauxhall Nova was in collision with an articulated lorry at roadworks on the A66 , a mile west of Bowes , last Thursday . |
23 | The accident happened half a mile west of the Melsonby crossroads last September . |
24 | Three people have been killed in accidents on the A66 in the last month within a short distance of yesterday 's accident , which happened a mile west of Bowes , near Barnard Castle . |
25 | The tower mill half a mile south-west of the church is the only windmill left on the island . |
26 | At Penponds , half a mile south-west of the town centre , is the cottage in which Richard Trevithick ( q.v. ) was born in 1771 . |
27 | Half a mile south-west of the village , near the railway line , is the eastern portal of the Sapperton Tunnel , 2¼ miles long . |
28 | A second cemetery has been identified at Borstal , about a mile south-west of the town near the river bank ; it appears to have contained mainly inhumations , and the coins so far recovered would indicate a third- and fourth-century use . |
29 | The third possible excursion , to Tulai island ( also known as Coral island ) , a mile north-west of Tioman , does nothing to dispel this dream . |
30 | ‘ Between us we must have been to every bar within a mile radius of Times Square . |