Example sentences of "a few miles south of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A few miles south of Cambridge , and just as accessible from London , is Audley End House which is well worth a detour . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When south of the Mandovi , I stayed in the simpler Prainha Cottages , just a few miles south of Panjim ( Prainha , Dona Paula , tel : 8325917 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were in Carlisle , just a few miles south of the Scottish-English border . |
| 10 | A few miles south of Meikleour , can be found the point at which the River Isla adds its weight . |