Example sentences of "a few miles outside [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sussex campus , with its tastefully harmonized buildings in the modernist-Palladian style , arranged in elegant perspective at the foot of the South Downs a few miles outside Brighton , was much admired by architects , but had a somewhat disorienting effect on the young people who came to study there . |
| 2 | and in October he moved down to Shamley Green , a village a few miles outside Guildford and within commuting distance of London . |
| 3 | A few miles outside Moscow on a ridge of hills sloping steeply down to the river Moskva below is the Church of the Decapitation of S. John the Baptist at Dyakovo ( 245 ) , which is only about a mile away across the trees and woods from the unusual Church of the Ascension at Kolomenskoe ( Chapter 5 , Fig. 560 ) . |
| 4 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 5 | This charming house is prettily and conveniently set in a rural position , just a few miles outside Chester . |
| 6 | Nick took her to a small restaurant a few miles outside Cambridge , where they both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened . |
| 7 | Mr Deng 's dash for rural freedom began in villages like one a few miles outside Chengdu , Sichuan 's capital . |
| 8 | ‘ It is only a few miles outside Tbilisi . |
| 9 | My first efforts to find Roztoky , which is only a few miles outside Prague , were a horror story of wrong turnings , lengthy detours and rush-hour traffic . |
| 10 | Dave 's house was a surprise ; a very comfortable modern bungalow with all mod cons , a few miles outside Kirkwall , with all the fishing and shooting he could wish for right on his doorstep . |