Example sentences of "[adj] miles west " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets . |
| 2 | A few miles west from Garry Bridge is Queen 's View , a rocky , pine-clad promontory with stunning views westwards down Loch Tummel to graceful Schiehallion . |
| 3 | Large quarry faces at Scrabo Hill , a few miles west of Newtownards , show porous dune-bedded sandstones associated with rippled sandstones and thin layers of clay galls . |
| 4 | Further north , and a few miles west of Fréteval , which Philip had held since last June , the lord of Vendôme switched his allegiance to France . |
| 5 | Just a few miles west in the grounds of Nuneham Conference Park stands another folly which has ended up in an unexpected place . |
| 6 | Eyam Hall in Derbyshire is off the A623 , 12 miles west of Chesterfield , 15 miles south-west of Sheffield . |
| 7 | Brothers Phil and Fergus Gribbon , of Co Donegal , have hired a trawler to invade the uninhabited isle of Rockall , 300 miles west of the Hebrides . |
| 8 | ( A better alternative might be to travel by rail or plane to L'Orient , 30 miles west , and rent a car . ) |
| 9 | Since the Khartoum regime launched a five-pronged ‘ final offensive ’ against the mainly Christian or animist rebels in early March , its army has taken Pochala , Col Garang 's hometown of Bor , and a string of smaller towns , advancing to within 30 miles west of the rebel headquarters at Torit . |
| 10 | Didcot is 53 miles west of London , 10 miles south of Oxford and is well served by British Rail with regular Inter-City 125 trains from London Paddington , Reading , Swindon , Bath , Bristol and South Wales . |
| 11 | A district army commander in a small outpost 10 miles west of Kampot town admitted last month that the mines his troops had planted at the foot of the mountains were designed only partly to defend their position . |
| 12 | Two intersecting lines of seismic were recorded to 12 sec TWT , the longer north-south line running from the Devizes borehole to a point 10 miles west of Swindon . |
| 13 | Because the 40 metre-deep main is pressurised by gravity it does away with the need to pump vast quantities of water — at great expense — across London from the Thames 10 miles west of the city . |
| 14 | It is 6 miles N.W. of Brackley and the A43 and 10 miles west of Towcester and the A5 . |
| 15 | In July 1663 , Richard Baxter left London for reasons of health and went to live in Acton , which was then a village six miles west of the capital . |
| 16 | The centre of all of North America , including Canada , is six miles west of Balta in Pierce County , N. Dakota . |
| 17 | It lay only about six miles west of Châtellerault and documents from the 1130s indicate that the castellan of Clairvaux at that time was a vassal of the Viscount of Châtellerault . |
| 18 | Final days were spent in revetments on Kalaikunda airfield , 100 miles west of Calcutta , where they were used as decoys with the propellers sawn off and the tails lifted to look like tri-gear machines . |
| 19 | By 4/5 May they had arrived in the Drau valley , near Lienz ( nearly 100 miles west of Klagenfurt ) . |
| 20 | Lying approximately 100 miles west of Barbados and 1,770 nautical miles from New York , Palm Island comprises five golden beaches , a mile of coral garden and 100 acres of totally clean flatlands on which to relax . |
| 21 | The dam itself — 45 miles west of Exeter and completed two months ago — is 430 metres across and 40 metres high . |
| 22 | It was probably at his suggestion that the Wordsworths walked one evening to Holford , a small village three miles west from Stowey on the road to Putsham and Kilve . |
| 23 | We picked up the Lorrimores ’ car at one point three miles west of Cartier . |
| 24 | Rio Tinto Finance and Exploration , a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Zinc , announced in 1987 it found gold three miles west of Omagh , Co . |
| 25 | The Brook — it appears to have no official name — springs from the Wealden water-shed some three miles west between Swanage and Corfe Castle and flows into the sea by the Mowlem . |
| 26 | The deaths occurred in the city of Newcastle , New South Wales , three miles west of the epicentre of the earthquake , which registered 5.5 on the Richter scale . |
| 27 | Housteads , eight-and-a-half miles west of Chollerford , is the best preserved fort along the wall : five acres in extent and once accommodating 1,000 infantry . |
| 28 | No-one was hurt in the incident , which occurred at the Mihama plant near Fukui , some 220 miles west of Tokyo . |
| 29 | Situated in 700 acres of the beautiful Seven Sisters Country Park on the A259 , 5 miles west of Eastbourne , 1 mile east of Seaford . |
| 30 | 5 miles west of Mead Farm , lies the village of Hook Norton . |