Example sentences of "[be] only [art] [adj] miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a final statistic captures even more eloquently the nature of the country : in all its million square miles , there are only a thousand miles of paved roads . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It might sound ridiculous to suggest that the sun could shrink to being only a few miles across . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
| 8 | It 's only a few miles away . ’ |
| 9 | It 's only a few miles further along the road . ’ |
| 10 | Just a I think you should give us that , it 's only a few miles away ! |
| 11 | Give us that Stu , it 's only a few miles away . |
| 12 | Whereas really it 's only a few miles as the crow flies as it were . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ It is only a few miles outside Tbilisi . |
| 17 | France has gone , and Belgium and Holland , and the German army is only a few miles away across the Channel . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant . |
| 21 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | One of my father 's laboratories was only a few miles distant . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |