Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] a few miles " in BNC.

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1 Four rooms are also available at a supplement of £40 ( single £58 ) at the small but elegant Bridgend Hotel a few miles inland ( all private facilities ) .
2 ‘ As the cockle-gatherers of Penclawdd , the seaside village a few miles from the Eisteddfod field realise only too well , the ebb never leaves empty-handed it leaves behind traces of new life .
3 The fire probably started in a rubbish dump , above an old strip mine a few miles east of the town , in May 1962 .
4 Their house was too small to put us up so we stayed in a new motor camp a few miles further along the road , in Portobello ( odd to get all these Edinburgh names , 12,000 miles away ! ) .
5 The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden .
6 On a dark and icy cold morning in January 1946 I flew in an RAF plane from Berlin to Kiel and then drove in a jeep to a British Army Church House a few miles outside the city .
7 Listening to the autumn wind moaning across this corner of the sparse Northumberland coastline a few miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed , where Nora Simpson had lived for all of her married life , their memories of her were vivid .
8 The police had traced the dinghy to Londoners who owned a weekend cottage a few miles away up the Welsh coast .
9 The men were waiting for Karen in a hotel room a few miles from the accident .
10 But Florida has two other prominent international junior training centres — the Rick Macci International Tennis Academy at Grenelefe Resort a few miles from Orlando and Disney World ; and Harry Hopman/Saddlebrook Resort in the town of Wesley Chapel near Tampa .
11 There are many good beaches and a chance to bathe in warmed by Dungeness C , the underwater nuclear power station a few miles offshore .
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