Example sentences of "[noun] only a few miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | With four more rounds to go King can not be caught but he was still disappointed when he spoke afterwards about a race during which victory was snatched from his grasp only a few miles from the finish . |
| 2 | As a direct consequence of that success , we believe that the inaugural World Sevens , taking place only a few miles from the company headquarters in Perth and with its strong Scottish flavour through its base at Murrayfield , ideally suited for The Famous Grouse . |
| 3 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 4 | Five months earlier , on a bridge only a few miles away , Julie Dart 's killer had also left a stencilled message and used the phrase ‘ 2 mins allowed ’ and also a reference to a detector at the drop-off point . |
| 5 | The Mississippi opens onto the Gulf only a few miles away . |
| 6 | In 1989 , living in a motel between Santa Cruz and Watsonville only a few miles from the epicentre of the Loma Prieta earthquake , I had walked with Frank Bardacke in its aftermath down the streets of Watsonville and counted score and score of the old Maybeck homes , tossed off their piers , broken-backed , red-tagged , finished . |
| 7 | These stories occur world wide , so I will limit myself to two which are told of sites on the Yorkshire Wolds only a few miles from where I live . |