Example sentences of "[adj] miles [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coed Glas is only a few miles away from Ty Mawr , the controversial children 's home which is to be closed shortly after a major inquiry . |
| 2 | Commonwealth champion Hardy will be fighting some 300 miles away from home and the major support will be noisily reserved for local fighting man Billy Schwer , the former British lightweight title holder on his comeback . |
| 3 | Yamamoto 's plan , Operation Z was complete by this stage and relied heavily on the fact that Hawaii is over 2,000 miles away from mainland America and any assistance would be slow to arrive . |
| 4 | Imagine then , running a 26 mile marathon — twice — and then adding 10 miles more for luck ! |
| 5 | Dixon observed on Hammerfest Island , Bayly at North Cape , about sixty miles apart in case of cloudy weather . |
| 6 | Some , older and more ambitious , took large baskets full of flowers all the way to Trieste , about fourteen miles away by train , and sold them there . |
| 7 | I think we should be aware , looking at these figures , that the female figures are , in my view , many , many , many miles away from reality . |
| 8 | Three thousand miles away in North Hollywood , in November , the man closes the door behind him and stands in the foyer taking off his hat . |
| 9 | Although many of the better-paid staff , especially those with engineering expertise , were brought in from all over the country , much of the local labour came from the town of Bridgwater , ten miles away by road . |
| 10 | The Marina at South Dock is two-and-a-half miles down-stream from Tower Bridge on the south side of the River Thames and has a total of 350 berths . |
| 11 | The nearest dolphin was five miles away at sea . |
| 12 | Half-timbering is Cheshire 's speciality , after all — what better examples in the country are there than Handforth , Henbury and the spectacularly lavish Hill Bark , built in 1894 ( at a cost of £150,000 ) and moved lock , stock and barrel in 1929 to a site five miles away in order to avoid the view of encroaching development ! |
| 13 | Fifteen miles away from Menzion you can join the Southern Upland Way , which runs for 212 miles from the south-west coast of Scotland to the eastern seaboard . |
| 14 | Inadvertently reflecting some of the new-found ‘ posse ’ mentality , EV 's three writers sing their own songs , diffusing still further the four-square thrust of conventional rock with chiming , circular guitar runs ( a million miles away from indie 's dull scrubbing ) and rueful bass hums . |
| 15 | Israeli wines , apart from the expensive Golan Heights wines , have generally been pretty poor — thick , sweetish , over-ripe and a million miles away from thirst-quenching . |
| 16 | But er what we say is that we will pay thirty percent up to a hundred miles away from home |
| 17 | All assignments up to a hundred miles away from home you will be paid thirty percent . |
| 18 | know for all assignments up to a hundred miles away from home . |
| 19 | well erm we we pay thirty percent commission up to a hundred miles away from home . |
| 20 | We pay thirty five percent if it 's more than a hundred miles away from home . |
| 21 | The fact that the polecat with young was sighted three years ago by a grumpy shepherd looking for a lost lamb at 5.30 a.m. on a March morning , two miles away from post number seven , is irrelevant . |
| 22 | At 0911:25 Invicta 435 reported overhead the BN and was cleared to land ; it was , at this point approximately three miles south of the airfield and approximately one mile west of the extended runway centreline , some two miles further on Base air traffic asked " Are you sure you are over the BN ? " to which the Vanguard Captain replied " I think I 've got a spurious indication . |
| 23 | Beattie 's sister Rose and husband ( Clive Swift ) wait for director Richard Phillips to tell them what they 're doing 6,000 miles away from home . |
| 24 | At sea the scene was set with the cutters Vigilant , Swift , Alert and Active patrolling about thirty miles offshore at midnight on September 16th to the west of Plymouth . |
| 25 | Historic Maritime Greenwich is just four miles downstream from Tower Bridge or a short drive from the M25 ( exit 2 ) . |