Example sentences of "[art] [adj] miles [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Luxor we hired a felucca with two crewmen to take us the 120 miles by river to Aswan . |
| 2 | Saturday night is racing cars up and down the eight miles of road , the nearest policeman being , perhaps , a whole day away . |
| 3 | Besides , the intervening miles of water — we hope there will be those intervening miles — should have a powerfully dampening effect . ’ |
| 4 | The Way is waymarked the 92 miles from start to finish and a book giving detailed route descriptions is available for £3.40 , including postage . |
| 5 | On Saturday morning I was in such a hurry that I only said a quick goodbye to my family , before setting out to walk the few miles into town for the London coach . |
| 6 | It was winter and we made an early start , travelling the seventy-odd miles in darkness so as to arrive with time to tackle up and be fishing as the last dregs of darkness dripped away . |
| 7 | Congress and the administration may go for a sharp rise in the average miles per gallon required of car makers , instead of the much more efficient solution of higher petrol taxes . |
| 8 | I once walked , or rather limped , the thirteen miles of tarmac , plagued by a protruding nail in the sole of my shoe which was digging a small crater in my heel , and during the whole journey not a single vehicle passed me . |
| 9 | He then mobilised , with the co-operation of the other companies concerned , an army of platelayers and other company servants who were deployed within sight of one another , all along the 600 miles of railway between Windsor and Ballater ; every yard of the route was narrowly inspected , and every bridge , viaduct , tunnel , and level crossing was closely watched and guarded until the train had passed . |
| 10 | CCG Catering staff in Bridge of Allan suffered after they walked the ten miles from Bridge of Allan to Menstrie and back to raise money for Forth Valley Health Board . |
| 11 | Now that the leg was bandaged and had rested almost a day , it was not as painful , and I was able to manage the five miles to camp in two hours . |
| 12 | She ran the five miles from Doc Threadneedle 's place in twenty minutes . |
| 13 | Whether Henry Eliot 's letter is still on some Home Office file or other among the seventeen miles of paper which Toynbee ( if I remember right ) calculated to comprise the total government documentation of the war , I do not know ; but some research worker may conceivably yet come upon it , and it would be interesting to learn whether it contained any apt comments . |
| 14 | Heading further north , a journey along the 60 miles of coast road is rewarding for its spectacular views . |
| 15 | Heading farther north , a journey along the 60 miles of coast road is rewarding for its spectacular views . |
| 16 | She was to travel the twenty miles by train , into the city , and they were to meet , in the restaurant of Marshall and Snelgrove , to have coffee and talk , to shop together for this and that , a new spring suit , some curtain material , a lampshade and the Ceylon tea nobody would stock in the village , and back for lunch , and then for tea , with aching feet and happy conversation , until their trains home . |
| 17 | Until 1939 up to 12 , but more usually about seven , pairs bred along the 15 miles of chalk cliffs . |
| 18 | It is run by hydro electric power and goes along the 15,000 miles of track at speed in excess of 100 mph . |
| 19 | The seven miles of road will cost the government £52 million . |
| 20 | ‘ A few miles of convent floor to polish , a few million sheets to hem . |
| 21 | It is worth remembering that most accidents happen within a few miles of home . |
| 22 | Most of the mileage was on tarmac roads with a few miles cross country and admittedly , I did not have to use low ratio at any time . |
| 23 | From the Garrimpos Just a few miles down stream , the silvery waters of the Cristolino flow into the Tellisperos river , and vanish , stained by it 's burden of silt . |
| 24 | Skipper Mike Harris managed to locate feeding fish on the shallow reefs just a few miles from shore where John Smith , Bryce Smith and Jamie Smith from Meols , and Liverpool tackle dealer Alan Sharpe , included 50 tasty black bream in their haul . |
| 25 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
| 26 | And there , for the time being , let us leave Vic Wilcox , while we travel back an hour or two in time , a few miles in space , to meet a very different character . |
| 27 | They 'll produce design drawings and thirty percent estimates er one and a half miles of train line . |
| 28 | Wilf Orton , prosecuting , said Hooker , driving at up to 50 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour limit , had been trying to over-take four slower moving vehicles when he hit the other car side on . |
| 29 | The National Trust is responsible for protecting one in every six miles of coastline in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | ‘ He 'll manage twenty-five miles or so by nightfall , and that will bring him to the stream over there called the Carron , with a dozen miles of forest and boggy ground between himself and the main river-crossing . |