Example sentences of "[adv] a few miles [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAME 'S BEAUTY stems from being built in the palest of pale Portland stone , arguably the finest building stone in Britain , quarried over the down a few miles towards the sea . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you know that your characters are alive today , only a few miles down the road in Geneva ? |
| 3 | My first efforts to find Roztoky , which is only a few miles outside Prague , were a horror story of wrong turnings , lengthy detours and rush-hour traffic . |
| 4 | ‘ It is only a few miles outside Tbilisi . |
| 5 | It was while filming at this den that I heard of yet another place , only a few miles up the Wye , where mink had been seen killing mallard chicks . |
| 6 | At Gabes , the coastal plain narrows down to only a few miles between the sea and a large area of salt marshes . |
| 7 | The landscape in this area of south-east Cambridgeshire and north-east Hertfordshire is certainly very different from that in Fig 7 only a few miles to the south-east ; until the nineteenth century it was a land of open fields . |
| 8 | As she turned on to the dual carriageway that ended only a few miles beyond Naas , the rain spat against the windscreen . |
| 9 | Harry Poat left on his mission and Stirling split the remaining force into two groups which would travel independently to a further rendezvous at Bir Soltane , only a few miles from the Mareth line . |
| 10 | It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house . |
| 11 | We were only a few miles from the coast , but in the days before we had our own car , visits to the sea were exciting expeditions . |
| 12 | Green 's memorial tablet is in the church of St Mary the Virgin at Monken Hadley , only a few miles from the College 's Hawkshead campus . |
| 13 | These stories occur world wide , so I will limit myself to two which are told of sites on the Yorkshire Wolds only a few miles from where I live . |
| 14 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 15 | In 1989 , living in a motel between Santa Cruz and Watsonville only a few miles from the epicentre of the Loma Prieta earthquake , I had walked with Frank Bardacke in its aftermath down the streets of Watsonville and counted score and score of the old Maybeck homes , tossed off their piers , broken-backed , red-tagged , finished . |
| 16 | As a direct consequence of that success , we believe that the inaugural World Sevens , taking place only a few miles from the company headquarters in Perth and with its strong Scottish flavour through its base at Murrayfield , ideally suited for The Famous Grouse . |
| 17 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
| 18 | The new location could be only a few miles from the present site — especially if one of the company 's priorities is to retain existing staff . |
| 19 | Only a few miles from the coincidentally placed Goonhilly , a memorial commemorates the site of Guglielmo Marconi 's first transmitted wireless signals to County Cork in April 1901 , heralding the start of modern communication . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Cerveteri is built near the extensive necropolis which served the Etruscan city of Caere , one of their largest towns , near the sea and only a few miles from Rome . |
| 22 | With four more rounds to go King can not be caught but he was still disappointed when he spoke afterwards about a race during which victory was snatched from his grasp only a few miles from the finish . |
| 23 | all the way , you look one way as far as you can see and you , when you go to Gibraltar you 're only a few miles from Africa |
| 24 | ‘ Only a few miles in it . ’ |
| 25 | Ski enthusiasts will want to visit the nearby village of Kaprun , just a few miles down the road ; where you can try summer skiing on the Kitzsteinhorn glacier . |
| 26 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | New York is n't exactly just a few miles down the road . ’ |
| 29 | This charming house is prettily and conveniently set in a rural position , just a few miles outside Chester . |
| 30 | I have a feeling we must be just a few miles from the River Seine . |