Example sentences of "[noun] a few [noun pl] outside " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferrying American aircraft to Russia had kept him far away from his own village a few kilometres outside Moscow . |
| 2 | and in October he moved down to Shamley Green , a village a few miles outside Guildford and within commuting distance of London . |
| 3 | Even the canals were not the last protective ring around the city , the ramparts or Spanish walls being built — between 1549 and 1561 — in a circle a few metres outside the waterway circle . |
| 4 | The Sussex campus , with its tastefully harmonized buildings in the modernist-Palladian style , arranged in elegant perspective at the foot of the South Downs a few miles outside Brighton , was much admired by architects , but had a somewhat disorienting effect on the young people who came to study there . |
| 5 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 6 | Nick took her to a small restaurant a few miles outside Cambridge , where they both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened . |
| 7 | 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 . |