Example sentences of "[adj] miles east " in BNC.
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| 1 | One city of a million people , Ufa , 700 miles east of Moscow , was described in Pravda in 1987 as having become unfit for human habitation . |
| 2 | Large wooded areas are rare in Pembrokeshire due to the strong winds and salt spray , but Cwm Gwaun , a few miles east of Fishguard , is one of the notable exceptions to the rule . |
| 3 | So a male companion and I drove up to the starting point in Glen Lyon , a few miles east of Bridge of Balgie where a bridge crosses the River Lyon to a cattle farm . |
| 4 | The fire probably started in a rubbish dump , above an old strip mine a few miles east of the town , in May 1962 . |
| 5 | One such hamlet is Somersby , in the heart of the wolds , just a few miles east of the market town of Horncastle . |
| 6 | San Quentin Point is the third part of a trilogy which began with THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE , CALIFORNIA ( 1975 ) — a foundation block of the " New Topographics " — and was followed by PARK CITY , a book of 102 photographs which describe the construction of a ski resort of that name a few miles east of Salt Lake City , Utah ( published 1980 ) . |
| 7 | It is around 22 miles east of Cheltenham , 20 miles west of Oxford and 18 miles north of Swindon . |
| 8 | Pavlovo is about 300 miles east of Moscow and has a history of metal craft . |
| 9 | Columba , a neighbour of the giant Ninian field , is located some 105 miles east of the Shetland Islands . |
| 10 | They are believed to have worked in the officers ' mess of a signals unit posted to Moortsel , a village near Tervuren , 10 miles east of Brussels , in September 1944 . |
| 11 | When built in 1938 it was The Ridges , which is still what they call it locally — a slum clearance project on the north bank of the Tyne , 10 miles east of Newcastle . |
| 12 | Floor space is always a problem and the gallery has spawned another showroom in Issaquah , 10 miles east of Seattle . |
| 13 | The tranquil village of Low Catton lies six miles east of York on the east bank of the river Derwent . |
| 14 | He led an army of some 18,000 to meet the Scots at Pinkie , six miles east of Edinburgh . |
| 15 | LASMO is one of the three companies which has made a gas discovery about six miles east of Scarborough off the Yorkshire coast . |
| 16 | The Ford car in which Ian Spiro fled after the shooting was discovered in a remote area 100 miles east of San Diego , near the Mexican border . |
| 17 | This part of the ‘ window ’ can be used for long-range scrying ; a character looking into it and willing himself to see a far-distant scene can see into an elliptical area bounded by Middenheim to the north , Nuln to the south , some 25 miles west of Altdorf , and to around 100 miles east along the River Talabec out of Altdorf . |
| 18 | Turning her back on Ben Stack , Ann struck off in as straight a line as possible , eventually arriving at the main road , about three miles east of Scourie . |
| 19 | In recent years , even the paddle steamers linking Hull and Barton have been made obsolete by the building of the magnificent single span Humber Bridge , completed in 1980 — the north bank approach of which is just three miles east of North Ferriby . |
| 20 | Start/finish : Blackwell Mill Junction , three miles east of Buxton/Coombs Viaduct , one mile south-east of Bakewell . |
| 21 | And finally , surely at this present moment , only four miles east of Harrogate and about three miles east of Ripon the A s A one is at this very moment in time being lifted to an acceptable standard A motorway standard at this stage and not in the year two thousand which is what you 're talking about for this road . |
| 22 | Lee Morris , of Newbiggin , went overboard at about 3:50am some three miles east of Whitley Bay while the vessel Boy Peter , on which he was a crew member , was putting out nets . |
| 23 | On the A one , delays on the southbound carriageway three miles east of Worksop at the Appley Head Roundabout , Five Lane Ends on the A one , there 's roadworks there with a contraflow and diversions for wide vehicles , so there are delays there if you 're heading that way . |
| 24 | His creator James Driscoll has just returned to Britain after signing a £20 million deal to create the 40-acre fun park in Samara , 600 miles east of Moscow — where Digswell has been made a Freeman of the City . |
| 25 | Another fishing boat tried to tow the Glenmore back to port in rough seas , but it finally sank ninety miles east of Orkney . |
| 26 | ‘ We were organising the race in clear visibility at Cowes over 90 miles east of Torbay and took the advice of local professionals who said the sea-mist would burn off before the leading boats arrived . |
| 27 | Tonight , after five years of bulldozing and construction around the little farming community of Chessy in the flat countryside 18 miles east of Paris , Euro Disneyland will open its doors and 15,000 adult guests from around the world will be turned loose for two days in the vast theme park . |
| 28 | Kildare , sixteen miles east of Dublin is the home for the latest Irish steam centre The Steam Museum to be opened in Ireland with the formal opening ceremony being formed by President of Ireland Her Excellency Mrs Mary Robinson . |
| 29 | His family name derives from the village of Branscombe on the coast about sixteen miles east of Exeter , but of his parentage we know nothing . |
| 30 | Sixty miles east of the capital is Terelj . |