Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] few miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | After running the engine for a few miles , the gauge is up to the red . |
| 2 | The next day I decided to walk through the forest for a few miles and take the train to Strelsau from a little station along the road . |
| 3 | Most of the mileage was on tarmac roads with a few miles cross country and admittedly , I did not have to use low ratio at any time . |
| 4 | From Glen Spean in the north , however , the full range is splendidly in view , the distance of a few miles revealing the individual summits in true perspective . |
| 5 | While he says it would be a hundred per cent certain to go up if an atom bomb exploded alongside it , we must n't over-estimate the effects of a more remote explosive shock , even at a distance of a few miles . |
| 6 | We travel almost in silence for a few miles . |
| 7 | But most of England is a thousand years old , and in the walk of a few miles one would touch nearly every century in that long stretch of time . |
| 8 | The travelling chaos of a modern party leader 's election entourage had carried Major within a few miles of the home of the founder of the profession , a few of whose more troublesome contemporary practitioners are said to have caused him much irritation over the 16 months of his premiership . |
| 9 | By bending the rules which restricted travel to a few miles around Moscow , he had managed to undertake a number of journeys to such places as Samarkand , wonderfully described in his book , Eastern Approaches . |
| 10 | Police in north Oxfordshire believe the same thieves may have been behind two separate raids within a few miles of each other at Steeple Aston ; both raids were part of a spate of break-ins reported to police in the Fox F M area . |
| 11 | His work was paralleled by that of William Greenwell [ q.v. ] , but whereas Greenwell extended his researches over all the northern English counties and Gloucestershire , Mortimer confined his activities to the region within a few miles of his base at Driffield . |
| 12 | Police here are publicising facilities within a few miles of the road . |