Example sentences of "[prep] miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was a shock this morning , after miles of deserted sands , to come into a small crowded bay : to see buckets and spades and sandcastles , a parade of shops with fishing nets and beach balls and to return to a world of people . |
| 2 | His deep voice after miles of silence made Isabel jump . |
| 3 | Then , after miles of road lined with orchards in full blossom , came the startling contrast of the area populated by Hungarians . |
| 4 | Biggest round here fer miles . ’ |
| 5 | As to ‘ our bridge ’ ( which is never mentioned again ) , the reader can if he likes reflect that Kirillov is an odd fish and will no doubt prove himself persona non grata in ‘ our town ’ , or that the local bureaucrats are an officious and/or corrupt lot , or that the central authority thousands of miles away in Petersburg enjoys throwing its weight about . |
| 6 | In the space of 12 months the War Office built 25,000 pillboxes — almost a quarter of which still survive — and erected hundreds of miles of concrete anti-tank defences . |
| 7 | Even though Durie and Hobbs were thousands of miles away at the time of Britain 's demise at the hands of the Asians in Melbourne last December , the pair nevertheless felt the pain their colleagues were suffering . |
| 8 | A couple of miles down the road at London Irish they still want to hold on to the Irish connection , even if that leads to qualification by reading The Irish Times . |
| 9 | And the problem is that its effect on the neighbours — within a radius of miles , given the capability of modern sound systems — is severely damaging . |
| 10 | A couple of miles further on is the Carrick-a-rede rope bridge which , according to the tourist blurb , is ‘ a tourist must — one of the famous things-to-do in Ireland ’ . |
| 11 | At least the enemy had taken time to bury the soldiers , but what a way to go ; dead and buried in a ditch hundreds of miles from home . |
| 12 | The action takes place thousands of miles from ‘ the perennial roar of London ’ , but the reader remains very much aware of London and the civilization it stands for as moral standards crumble ; ‘ savage ’ and ‘ white man ’ become confused until the conduct of the whites , intent on mutual destruction , seems worse than that of ‘ these poor souls — and even Sally Day , the child of cannibals , in all likelihood a cannibal himself — so faithful to what they knew of good ’ . |
| 13 | That was at most a couple of miles up the road and no more than a few pence on the bus . |
| 14 | Going to grammar school really made me isolated It was only a couple of miles away from where I lived but that 's a long way when you 're only 11 — years-old and all your mates from junior school had gone to the local comprehensive round the corner . |
| 15 | It merely broke his fall and carted him a couple of miles up the road . |
| 16 | That 's still a fair maximum for this car , and even with a lot of miles under its belt since it had any major attention ( and a tendency to hang-up slightly in second gear ) it will still pull 12.2secs to 60mph . |
| 17 | They were away from home for six weeks and in that time covered thousands of miles , made over forty flights , attended a multitude of receptions , galas and banquets and shook more hands in walkabouts than could ever be counted . |
| 18 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 19 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 20 | The magnificent view to the south , from the Boulevard des Pyrenees , built along the bluff above the fast-running Gave de Pau , displayed an inspiring panorama , thousands of miles of rich valley climbing towards the snowcapped Pyrenees . |
| 21 | Ot Moor just a couple of miles east of Islip is a low-lying wilderness area of 6 square miles , mainly of wet marshlands , which proves to be a great attraction to naturalists . |
| 22 | They also abandoned thousands of miles of electric cables and water pipes to rot in the ground . |
| 23 | Production can not be ‘ just-in-time ’ when parts are imported from thousands of miles away in Japan . |
| 24 | It is not simply a question of distance : hundreds of miles in America can be crossed faster than 30 in crowded Japan . |
| 25 | A COUPLE of miles away from Westminster , the Gulf war is being debated with even greater passion than in the Commons itself . |
| 26 | Introduce a smog tax which would rise with the number of miles travelled ( and the dirtiness of the vehicle ) . |
| 27 | A couple of miles up the road , a UDR patrol leaped out of a ditch and stopped us . |
| 28 | Why travel thousands of miles to visit a spoof Paris ? |
| 29 | Blue distant trees , blue faraway hedges , rounded blue hills of the horizon millions of miles away . |
| 30 | Rose of Lima wrote no spiritual works ; influenced , in her time at least , no worldly powers ; reformed no evil Church authorities ; fought no public battles ; and lived anyway in a Third World country thousands of miles from the centre of things . |