Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a few miles " in BNC.

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1 He taught at the College of Further Education a few miles from Spaxton ; she had met him through a rambling club .
2 Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets .
3 There was a deepwater anchorage a few miles downstream , in an inlet of Bridgemarsh Island .
4 San Quentin Point is the third part of a trilogy which began with THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE , CALIFORNIA ( 1975 ) — a foundation block of the " New Topographics " — and was followed by PARK CITY , a book of 102 photographs which describe the construction of a ski resort of that name a few miles east of Salt Lake City , Utah ( published 1980 ) .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 He was on patrol with two other UN military observers when the mine exploded as they were driving around a small bridge a few miles north of the temples in Siem Reap province .
9 Nick took her to a small restaurant a few miles outside Cambridge , where they both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened .
10 She was brought up in Cramer , a coastal village a few miles from Dunstanburgh .
11 The case studies they produce later form part of the curriculum at Crotonville , the company 's management-development school a few miles up on the Hudson river from New York .
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