Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a few miles " in BNC.
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1 | The National Exhibition Centre and Birmingham International Airport are only a few miles away whilst the new International Convention Centre is only a short walk away . |
2 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
3 | 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 |
4 | We 're just a few miles away from the Meadowses ’ place , ’ he added , reaching forward to extract a map from the glove compartment , and tossing it on to her lap . |
5 | No high for finishing the marathon if you do n't run through the nerves at the start , the blisters , the soft grey stage of the race where the roadscape does n't change , where it feels as though you have done it all and yet there are still a few miles to go . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I have a feeling we must be just a few miles from the River Seine . |
8 | It might sound ridiculous to suggest that the sun could shrink to being only a few miles across . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |
11 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
12 | It 's only a few miles away . ’ |
13 | It 's only a few miles further along the road . ’ |
14 | Just a I think you should give us that , it 's only a few miles away ! |
15 | Give us that Stu , it 's only a few miles away . |
16 | Whereas really it 's only a few miles as the crow flies as it were . |
17 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
18 | Oxford itself , the ‘ city of dreaming spires ’ as John Betjeman eulogised it is only a few miles away with all its many and varied attractions . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | ‘ It is only a few miles outside Tbilisi . |
21 | France has gone , and Belgium and Holland , and the German army is only a few miles away across the Channel . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The full extent of this system is yet to be established , but the gouffre Pierre-Saint-Martin is only a few miles as the Pyrenean crow flies from the Gorges de Kakouetta and forms part of the one vast hydrological network . |
24 | It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant . |
25 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Although I was only a few miles away over the river , I missed the London I was getting to know and played games with myself like : if the secret police ordered you to live in the suburbs for the rest of your life , what would you do ? |
28 | One of my father 's laboratories was only a few miles distant . |
29 | However , if the sun were to shrink until it was only a few miles across , the bending would be so great that light leaving the sun would not get away but would be dragged back by the sun 's gravitational field . |
30 | You can imagine the eager anticipation I felt when following the death of our much loved 16 year old dog , I saw an advertisement quoting ‘ Basset Hounds For Sale ’ and the contact , which could have been anywhere in the UK , was only a few miles away . |