Example sentences of "[be] only [art] 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 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
3 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 .
4 It might sound ridiculous to suggest that the sun could shrink to being only a few miles across .
5 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 .
6 It 's only a few miles from here .
7 It 's only a few miles away . ’
8 It 's only a few miles further along the road . ’
9 Just a I think you should give us that , it 's only a few miles away !
10 Give us that Stu , it 's only a few miles away .
11 Whereas really it 's only a few miles as the crow flies as it were .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ It is only a few miles outside Tbilisi .
16 France has gone , and Belgium and Holland , and the German army is only a few miles away across the Channel .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant .
20 He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles .
21 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 .
22 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 ?
23 One of my father 's laboratories was only a few miles distant .
24 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 .
25 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 .
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