Example sentences of "[verb] within [art] few miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 2 | It is worth remembering that most accidents happen within a few miles of home . |
| 3 | Easily Accessible : There is a large number of footpaths and bridleways in the area , and two long-distance paths , the Oxford Way and the Cotswold Way , pass within a few miles of the hotel . |
| 4 | Moreover , movement into the village was predominantly of people born within a few miles of its borders . |
| 5 | During the dispute in 1984 , striking miners travelling in convoy on the motorway in Nottinghamshire were stopped within a few miles of four collieries . |
| 6 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 7 | Room temperature fusion has been discovered independently and simultaneously by two groups in Utah working within a few miles of each other . |