Example sentences of "[noun] a few miles [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rocky and sandy sea coasts , rarely on freshwater lakes a few miles inland . |
| 2 | For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions . |
| 3 | They had caught two men breaking into an antique shop a few miles away from Wellingham , a former private house at the side of the road . |
| 4 | At the Sedgwick memorial , the main street continues ahead and a branch turns right , these rejoining at Cowgill a few miles further on ; this branch road will be described on the return journey . |
| 5 | The police had traced the dinghy to Londoners who owned a weekend cottage a few miles away up the Welsh coast . |
| 6 | 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 ! ) . |
| 7 | Grado Cathedral , built on an island in the lagoon a few miles further south , is similar in design but the workmanship is not of such a high standard . |
| 8 | We may complain about it many times , but think of its wonderful facility of allowing us to phone that relative in the United States , or a friend a few miles away , or the butcher , or our business , and so on . |
| 9 | There are many good beaches and a chance to bathe in warmed by Dungeness C , the underwater nuclear power station a few miles offshore . |
| 10 | But a far cry from the hard ones used to describe life a few miles away in Orlando where police spokesman Jim Soloman was at pains to spell out the dangers — and with no exaggeration . |
| 11 | The Magistrate knew , alas , what would be happening when this great volume of water reached the depression made by the giant 's footprint a few miles away … |
| 12 | ASHINWARI or Afridi tribesman in Afghanistan grows the poppies and sends them by donkey or truck to his cousin a few miles away in Pakistan for processing . |
| 13 | There were two smaller islands a few miles away , and after that , only the sea . |
| 14 | He played for Middlesex in the 1950s , but in the heyday of Compton and Edrich he was forging an international reputation a few miles away from Lords , at Wembley . |
| 15 | Impressive as Charfield Mill undoubtedly is , it pales in comparison with its neighbour a few miles away , New Mills at Kingswood , near Wotton-Under-Edge . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Given that the West Highland Way drops into the glen a few miles further down , there 's a possibility of a two-day circular route . |
| 18 | There was a deepwater anchorage a few miles downstream , in an inlet of Bridgemarsh Island . |
| 19 | The law of nuisance , therefore , affords little or no protection either to a complainant who is unduly sensitive to an odour emission , or where the use interfered with is a sensitive one , as when the taste of biscuits manufactured under controlled conditions , was adversely affected by odorous fumes from a source a few miles away . |
| 20 | One similar order affected a shellfish farm in Loch Moidart a few miles further north , but that was granted to the Government 's Sea Fish Industry Authority for research . |