Example sentences of "a [adv] miles " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lowthorpe is a small elongated village , situated five miles northeast of Driffield , which stretches southwards for nearly three and a half miles across the plain of Holderness . |
| 32 | Paull is a small village lying beside the river Humber some seven miles from Hull and three and a half miles south-west of Hedon . |
| 33 | The church authorities decided to play safe and built its replacement at Rimswell , one and a half miles from the sea , the sturdy , unpretentious but pleasing little church of St Mary . |
| 34 | The railway station , built in 1876 , was actually in Ellerby one and a half miles away . |
| 35 | The housing has followed a linear type of development , which has made the village about one and a half miles long . |
| 36 | The village of Tickton in East Yorkshire is situated on the Beverley to Bridlington road about two and a half miles north-east of Beverley and separated from it by the river Hull . |
| 37 | Morley Street beat his full brother Granville Again in the slowly-run Elite Hurdle last month , but has since been beaten by Muse over two and a half miles at Ascot . |
| 38 | The offensive gained a strip of territory one mile wide and three and a half miles long . |
| 39 | The location of the box was remote , about one and a half miles from the village , but the line was busy and the box controlled the junction , so any signalman had to have his wits about him . |
| 40 | 2.40:LEADING northern hurdler Coulton gained all his successes last term over two and a half miles and back over the minimum I fancy HALKOPOUS to beat him . |
| 41 | Now the locals have to trek one and a half miles to the nearest one . |
| 42 | From the summit strike northwards for two and a half miles along an obvious path . |
| 43 | Continue following the Bure for two and a half miles until Thurne Mouth , the junction with the River Thurne . |
| 44 | Start from the layby next to the Dundonnell River which is two and a half miles south of Dundonnell on the A832 . |
| 45 | This added two and a half miles to their journey to work and involved another 15 minutes ' travelling time each way . |
| 46 | One and a half miles away at Rye harbour you can visit the Bird Sanctuary . |
| 47 | Two and a half miles away , you can visit Roche Abbey , a Cistercian monastery . |
| 48 | By the end of July an advance of about two and a half miles had been made on a front which at this depth did not exceed two miles . ’ |
| 49 | He had had to walk home , three and a half miles , but luckily his parents were out , at some deanery get-together , and Trish Pardoe , who helped in the shop , was babysitting Flora . |
| 50 | Unlike Piggott , Hannon is convinced Geisway will stay the one and a half miles at Epsom . |
| 51 | The centre of Diano Marina is about one and a half miles away . |
| 52 | Along the shore , two and a half miles of golden sands slip slowly into a warm , blue sea where visitors can swim , sail and wind-surf . |
| 53 | This is a pleasant modern hotel , situated about one and a half miles from the old village of Ovindoli . |
| 54 | Follow the road from Florence , and just about two and a half miles before you reach the town of Greve , high on ups , stands a crenellated renaissance castle . |
| 55 | Less than two and a half miles away is the small town of San Donato in Poggio , with some shops and one of the several beautiful 12th/13th century romanesque churches in this area . |
| 56 | Tavarnelle is about two and a half miles in the opposite direction . |
| 57 | It was converted from a nobleman 's residence situated about two and a half miles north-east of San Gimignano on the way to Certaldo , is surrounded by its own gardens and is tastefully appointed in every aspect . |
| 58 | Today the woods continue to be coppiced and also provide some most delightful circular nature trails — one extending to two and a half miles . |
| 59 | In another part of Oxford Circus , a station where three lines converge , where there are fourteen escalators , four and a half miles of passages and platforms and through which nearly 200,000 passengers pass each day , a man was taking photographs . |
| 60 | After nearly an hour and a half at sea in gale force winds Falmouth lifeboat , under the command of Second Coxswain Alan Barnes , came up on the yacht , a 40ft steel ketch , which was drifting two and a half miles south west of The Lizard Light . |