Example sentences of "[adj] miles south " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ bomb ’ was sent 700 miles south to Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico where it was exposed to a beam of muons produced in the laboratory 's particle accelerator . |
| 2 | Forty miles south of Perugia it is now an agricultural centre . |
| 3 | The park is situated on the A361 , 2 miles south of its junction with the A40 . |
| 4 | 2 miles south of Leeds City Centre off the A61 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A few miles south from Bettyhill , named after the infamous Countess Duchess of Sutherland , is another notable Strathnaver memorial . |
| 7 | A few miles south , Vindolanda was the home of 500 Roman auxiliary soldiers . |
| 8 | Toftingall , which lies a few miles south from the village of Watten , was one of the first Caithness lochs we fished . |
| 9 | A few miles south from Brora , past the Duke of Sutherland 's monstrous French-château fantasy castle at Dunrobin , is the town of Golspie , whose name derives from the old gaelic word meaning the ‘ place of the strangers ’ and although evidence is sparse , it is thought that the strangers in question were Vikings . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A few miles south of Cambridge , and just as accessible from London , is Audley End House which is well worth a detour . |
| 12 | When you visit the ancient university town of Cambridge and enjoy the historic college buildings along the River Cam , you should not fail to travel a few miles south to Audley End House in neighbouring Essex . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When south of the Mandovi , I stayed in the simpler Prainha Cottages , just a few miles south of Panjim ( Prainha , Dona Paula , tel : 8325917 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They were in Carlisle , just a few miles south of the Scottish-English border . |
| 19 | A few miles south of Meikleour , can be found the point at which the River Isla adds its weight . |
| 20 | Poachers have carried out a sustained assault on tigers in the Indian reserve of Ranthambhor , 140 miles south of Delhi . |
| 21 | In pre-Victorian times Camberwell was a middle-class suburb covering the 4,450 acres of the ancient parish of St Giles , which lay about 12 miles south of London Bridge ; its population in 1841 already stood at 39,868 . |
| 22 | ‘ I was delighted for the fans who travelled 300 miles south to see us . |
| 23 | Some miles south and east there is another narrow gauge railway . |
| 24 | About 30 miles south of Nashville , in the small town of Smyrna , Tennessee , stands a reply to that description . |
| 25 | Situated in Ashkelon National Park , 30 miles south of Tel Aviv . |
| 26 | This unpretentious hotel is one of the newest in Sri Lanka , and is situated on Kalutara beach some 30 miles south of Columbo . |
| 27 | The actual crossing probably took place somewhere between Qantara ( 30 miles south of Port Said ) and just north of Suez — over the papyrus marshes . |
| 28 | Then in chronological order came the following : Hemel Hempstead ( 1947 ) replacing Redbourn as proposed in the Abercrombie plan , was designed to fill in the area between Harpenden , St Albans and Remel Hempstead itself ; Harlow ( 1947 ) , 23 miles north-east of London , expanded a small settlement of 4,500 people ; Crawley ( 1947 ) , a town of 9,500 population , lay astride the Brighton Road , 30 miles south of London ; Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City ( both 1948 ) lay very close to each other 18–20 miles north of London ( Welwyn was already a sizable town of 18,500 inhabitants ) ; Basildon ( 1949 ) met rather different objectives , planned not only to accommodate overspill but to tidy up an untidy area of shack development between London and Southend ; Bracknell ( 1949 ) replaced Abercrombie 's proposal for White Waltham , three miles south-west of Maidenhead , west of London . |
| 29 | About 24 people died on July 22-23 in violence in the industrial area 30 miles south of Johannesburg known as the Vaal Triangle . |
| 30 | Ipswich , 7 miles south , has been a settlement since the Stone Age , with interesting historical buildings and good modern amenities including a large shopping centre and leisure complex . |