Example sentences of "more [subord] [art] mile " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ County ’ men were transferred around at short intervals , while we were static in the city , never moving more than a mile or so between the three divisions to undertake real ‘ city work ’ . |
| 2 | There have been scores of potentially dangerous incidents , some of them in a generator little more than a mile from the border with West Germany . |
| 3 | It was still about half a mile in to the town centre and , apart from Nails , they all lived more than a mile out the other side . |
| 4 | For more than a mile in each direction not a tree , not a bush , scarcely a blade of grass , grew . |
| 5 | One resident said : ‘ We could hear the music and we live more than a mile away . |
| 6 | And old man Verne-Smith and his wife , he knew , lived no more than a mile away , but them he avoided out of simple antipathy . |
| 7 | And the sea 's greatest known depth of 36,200 feet exceeds by more than a mile the height of Mount Everest . |
| 8 | There is a narrow road from the coast along the north side of Loch Morar as far as the little settlement of Bracorina and , from here , an easy climb to the crest of the ridge behind reveals a superlative view of Loch Nevis and Loch Morar , which are now little more than a mile apart . |
| 9 | To begin with they travel only at night and often they may not go much more than a mile . |
| 10 | So he had moved away from Jewtown to a considerably larger and more imposing semi-detached house in Blackrock — a suburb which , though no more than a mile beyond Celtic Crescent , was undeniably middle-class and rising . |
| 11 | Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away . |
| 12 | The metal road that left the highway twisted between pine-clad hills for more than a mile before it dropped to the lower level of a wide plateau that stretched along the river cliffs . |
| 13 | And for more than a mile they threaded their way around the standing pools that reached from the verges out into the drying roadway . |
| 14 | The caravan journey lasted no more than a mile . |
| 15 | Mr Thomson said Mr Wilson could not have got a bus to the area where he was found , which more than a mile from a road , and he could not have walked the distance on his own . |
| 16 | The rifle is capable of bringing down a helicopter , and has a killing range of more than a mile . |
| 17 | Valerie Moore is unable to understand how her eight-year-old son Lee strayed more than a mile from her home in Princes Road , Ellesmere Port , where he met his death on his brother 's bike . |
| 18 | I 'm sure it 'll cost more than a quid but seeing as you ca n't like get more than a mile long piece anyway so |