Example sentences of "[adv] twenty mile " in BNC.
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| 1 | One down , one mile on the up , double junction below twenty mile an hour speed limit . |
| 2 | He quickened his flight as he saw ahead in the far distance , perhaps twenty miles on , the blue rising of real hills — ground higher than any he had seen so far . |
| 3 | The man had never seen it , although it lay only twenty miles to the north . |
| 4 | Exeter with its 13th-century cathedral , maritime museum is only twenty miles away . |
| 5 | Take it , and in the space of only twenty miles you pass through a rapid summary of all the Pyrenean landscapes : high pasture first of all , nowhere richer than near the Col du Soul or , with a backing of the fearsome granite of the Cirque de Lit or ; then , after the village of Arbéost , dense woodland and the gorge of the river ; then suddenly open , more or less flat country , well cultivated , and you are out of the mountains for good . |
| 6 | The tramway system at its maximum extent , following the take-over of the Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad in 1920 , when there were approximately twenty miles of routes . |
| 7 | Others braved it , but faced a five hour journey to travel just twenty miles . |
| 8 | Madeleine replied with the news that she had been promoted and was moving to a town not twenty miles away . |
| 9 | Even when lightning lit the skies and the floodgates opened when she was still twenty miles from her destination she merely flicked on the car 's wipers and peered out into the black night , letting the piercing beam of the headlights guide her along the road . |
| 10 | I 'm doing under twenty miles an hour . |
| 11 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 12 | During the Second World War a nudist village for evacuee naturists was set up twenty miles outside London . |
| 13 | Walkers in a hurry can sneak across on a passenger ferry and over the facing hill on a cart track to Dundonnell , saving nearly twenty miles and the best part of a day . |
| 14 | The only possible way was to the north-east and east along Glen Spean where a level contour could be maintained for nearly twenty miles until , at Tulloch , the first opportunity of circumventing the mountain barrier was presented by the deep trench of Loch Treig to the south and reached by a steep gradient . |
| 15 | He was the grandson of a traditional Kikuyu smith who made spears and knives in the late nineteenth century in a small village about twenty miles from Nairobi . |
| 16 | For instance , Abdulraham Bu Riziq spent most of the year in camp about twenty miles from Ajdabiya . |
| 17 | Castlebar is only about twenty miles from here and Mr Durkin 's automobile can do twenty-five miles an hour . ’ |
| 18 | The Battalion entrained en route to the Lillebonne district about twenty miles from Le-Havre , A company along with B billeted at Gruchet-la-Vallasse , most men in open barns . |
| 19 | For one thing it was not an air field but a large old house right in the centre of Huntingdon , a small market town about twenty miles west of Cambridge . |
| 20 | En route in a Cessna from the Isle of Man to Blackpool , he was alerted by ATC to a JetRanger ditching after engine failure about twenty miles off Morecambe . |
| 21 | It look a little longer to plan how she was to make the journey to Chertsey , which she had discovered was about twenty miles away . |
| 22 | ‘ A place called Gravetye , ’ I said , ‘ about twenty miles from here . |
| 23 | About twenty miles out . ‘ |
| 24 | The Ouse Washes are about twenty miles long and half-a-mile wide . |
| 25 | The next thing they knew they were on their way to a Children 's Home run by nuns about twenty miles away : " It was nice and clean , I had a bath and went to bed . |
| 26 | ‘ About twenty miles , ’ the old man growled . |
| 27 | I slow to about twenty miles per hour . |
| 28 | Tomorrow , we 'll be about twenty miles and another half a dozen locks further on . |
| 29 | The ride is a very pleasant one of about twenty miles through rural scenery and past well-maintained stations , with all the right traditional railway sounds such as ‘ chuff chuff chuff chuff ’ , which has disappeared from British Rail , and my favourite , ‘ clackety clack ’ , which is much reduced on BR due to the use of continuous welded rail on all busy lines , though the older sectioned rail survives on the lines around South Shropshire such as the Central Wales Line and the Cambrian . |
| 30 | ‘ About twenty miles . |