Example sentences of "mile [conj] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are about half a mile or so away , ’ he replied , ‘ and , most important , they are our guns . |
| 2 | They caught up with him a mile or so away at the Plough Inn . |
| 3 | The Israeli Jews in the little kibbutz a mile or so away had never heard of it , but an old Arab woman in a long dark dress picking fruit pointed up a hill when she heard the name and shrugged her shoulders . |
| 4 | A mile or so away , there was another barn , a bit more dilapidated , but barn owls do n't mind that . |
| 5 | But a mile or so away from Panama City , linked to it by a discreet network of roads and side-streets that become suddenly cleaner , neater , less tropic , less obviously corrupted , is a city that bears the great conquistadore 's family name . |
| 6 | There 's a village a mile or so away . |
| 7 | Amongst the rural members of the congregation that filled the chapel in its early days were my great-grandparents from Allerthorpe , a mile or so away . |
| 8 | The data from this is punched into the ORACLE database which physically resides at the lab ( a mile or so away ) , and hence can be pulled down the line to map , say aluminium levels and check water quality against EC regulations . |
| 9 | In an effort to remedy matters , Harriet decided to seek assistance from a tin miner 's family who lived in a small cottage a mile or so inland . |
| 10 | Necessarily strung out at no more than three abreast , the column threaded the mile or so cautiously , Ramsay for one , keen-eyed to note danger-spots and ambush possibilities for future reference . |
| 11 | The only sign of human life was the beacon light at the end of the pier which skirted the entrance to Sharpness docks , a mile or so downstream . |
| 12 | There was an unexplained delay of five or ten minutes — perhaps while the searchlight crews came back to their action stations on the great lights , including the five-foot beam on the west bank a mile or so downstream from the port , and the light commanding the river from the end of the Old Mole . |
| 13 | Some of the crew tried getting along the bank — you know how people are sometimes found clinging to the branches of trees overhanging the river a mile or so downstream . |
| 14 | It was eight-twenty when I hit Wilshire and a mile or so further on I turned into the Avenida San Vincente . |
| 15 | The Cajamarca road joins the Pan-Am a mile or so further on , at San José . ’ |