Example sentences of "[verb] only a few miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had travelled only a few miles when he lost his way among the dark country lanes near his home in Diss , Norfolk . |
| 2 | There were no preparations at Thornfield , and no visits to the Ingram family , who lived only a few miles away . |
| 3 | The village of Artagnan , indeed , lies only a few miles from Montaner , to the north-east ; and it was one of the seventeenth-century counts of this Artagnan whom Alex Andre pumas , once again , took and elevated into his fictional hero . |
| 4 | Stephen is a boy of mixed Jamaican and St Vincentian parentage , born and raised only a few miles away from the white girl who provided the first narrative . |
| 5 | It contains unrivalled 18th century English furniture made especially for Harewood by Thomas Chippendale , born only a few miles further up the Wharfe Valley at Otley . |
| 6 | The Mediterranean climatic zone , and the mode of life associated with it , is restricted to a thin fringe extending only a few miles inland . |
| 7 | As she turned on to the dual carriageway that ended only a few miles beyond Naas , the rain spat against the windscreen . |