Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [art] few miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | A highly significant addition during this time was an underwater ridge from the eastern Pacific ; after accretion it pulled apart to form the San Andreas Fault now a few miles inland from the coast . |
| 2 | From the Garrimpos Just a few miles down stream , the silvery waters of the Cristolino flow into the Tellisperos river , and vanish , stained by it 's burden of silt . |
| 3 | And , Germany suffered a massive blow to its pride when the Hindenburg crashed in a ball of flames just a few miles from Nicholson 's home town , Neptune , New Jersey soon after he was born . |
| 4 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
| 5 | With four more rounds to go King can not be caught but he was still disappointed when he spoke afterwards about a race during which victory was snatched from his grasp only a few miles from the finish . |
| 6 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
| 7 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood , had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
| 8 | Nearly 6,000 miles away from the fog and frost of Britain , the southern Californian desert just a few miles from the border of Mexico . |
| 9 | As a direct consequence of that success , we believe that the inaugural World Sevens , taking place only a few miles from the company headquarters in Perth and with its strong Scottish flavour through its base at Murrayfield , ideally suited for The Famous Grouse . |
| 10 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 11 | The sitters are evidently at their ease , and in the background we see a representation of the Dutch House at Kew , a favourite place just a few miles from London where they could escape from the formalities of public life . |
| 12 | The car was stolen in North Oxford on Christmas Eve , but recovered just two hours later a few miles away , and then taken to a garage in Cowley . |
| 13 | They fear that increasing raids from bordering Mozambique just a few miles away , together with the lack of any local security , has turned the area into a no-go zone . |
| 14 | They found out from the crew that the ship had been boarded the night before a few miles out from Gdańsk by a Russian naval vessel and that a Polish passenger had been arrested and taken off . |
| 15 | Five months earlier , on a bridge only a few miles away , Julie Dart 's killer had also left a stencilled message and used the phrase ‘ 2 mins allowed ’ and also a reference to a detector at the drop-off point . |
| 16 | Indeed , for generations the Royal Family have had their own secluded haven just a few miles downriver . |
| 17 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 18 | Skipper Mike Harris managed to locate feeding fish on the shallow reefs just a few miles from shore where John Smith , Bryce Smith and Jamie Smith from Meols , and Liverpool tackle dealer Alan Sharpe , included 50 tasty black bream in their haul . |
| 19 | This is the countryside that villagers in three hamlets just a few miles from Milton Keynes fear will be eaten up by concrete . |
| 20 | The Mississippi opens onto the Gulf only a few miles away . |
| 21 | In 1989 , living in a motel between Santa Cruz and Watsonville only a few miles from the epicentre of the Loma Prieta earthquake , I had walked with Frank Bardacke in its aftermath down the streets of Watsonville and counted score and score of the old Maybeck homes , tossed off their piers , broken-backed , red-tagged , finished . |
| 22 | These stories occur world wide , so I will limit myself to two which are told of sites on the Yorkshire Wolds only a few miles from where I live . |
| 23 | To see examples of life thousands of years ago unearthed by archaeologists just a few miles away . |
| 24 | To see examples of life thousands of years ago unearthed by archaeologists just a few miles away . |