Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a few miles " in BNC.

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1 Although only a few miles separate Richmond from Leeds and Beverley from Hull , prices differ enormously .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 But only a few miles farther on , the convoy was halted again .
5 But just a few miles away from where Jilly Cooper lives is a REAL hamlet called Paradise , and villagers there are worried that readers might think the book is based on them .
6 But just a few miles away at the Bennett House School it 's a different story .
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