Example sentences of "[noun] just a few miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
| 5 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood , had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Indeed , for generations the Royal Family have had their own secluded haven just a few miles downriver . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This is the countryside that villagers in three hamlets just a few miles from Milton Keynes fear will be eaten up by concrete . |
| 13 | To see examples of life thousands of years ago unearthed by archaeologists just a few miles away . |
| 14 | To see examples of life thousands of years ago unearthed by archaeologists just a few miles away . |