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 . |