Example sentences of "a [adv] miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the muscle-stretching circuits , the recruits tackle endurance runs of up to six and a half miles , aerobics , assault courses and the Military Swimming Test . |
| 2 | A new Jump Pattern has been worked out and some new races created specifically for horses whose optimum trip is two and a half miles , a distance not previously catered for at championship level both over hurdles and fences , although there will still be nothing for novice chasers over that distance at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 3 | Rusch de Farges , an ex-French gelding , won two of his six races last season both in soft ground and put up his best effort when beaten three lengths by Barnbrook Again at levels in the Arlington Chase Final over two and a half miles at Cheltenham last January . |
| 4 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 5 | Rusch de Farges , an ex-French gelding , won two of his six races last season both in soft ground and put up his best effort when beaten three lengths by Barnbrook Again at levels in the Arlington Chase Final over two and a half miles at Cheltenham last January . |
| 6 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 7 | Maud Heath was a pedlar woman who lived on Wick Hill and walked four and a half miles , past Kellaways , to Chippenham each morning . |
| 8 | Pebbles was an outstanding racehorse , but the Breeders ' Cup bid was none the less a characteristically bold move on the part of trainer Clive Brittain , for the Turf race is over one and a half miles and she had never raced beyond ten furlongs . |
| 9 | This seemed a race well beyond his stamina range , for the Grand National is over nearly four and a half miles and Crisp 's ideal distance was apparently no further than two and a half miles . |
| 10 | This seemed a race well beyond his stamina range , for the Grand National is over nearly four and a half miles and Crisp 's ideal distance was apparently no further than two and a half miles . |
| 11 | The result is a beautiful leisure park , one and a half miles long and nearly a mile wide , in the middle of the Danube . |
| 12 | Mr Patrick Fitzgibbon , who lives in Steeple Aston , said he was deeply concerned that the pilot ejected one and a half miles from the crash site . |
| 13 | So on Saturday , Party Politics , dwarfing his 39 opponents , set off in new colours with new jockey Carl Llewellyn to see how many strides it would take him to cover the most famous four and a half miles in sport . |
| 14 | Trainer Francois Boutin said he had no worries about Arazi staying one and a half miles . |
| 15 | ‘ He will have one race before then , but I have yet to decide where , ’ said the trainer , adding : ‘ He is a much stronger horse now and I am sure that one and a half miles is his best distance . ’ |
| 16 | Up river some two and a half miles from Blackfriars was a convenient creek and there the fertile land had long produced fruit and vegetables for the City . |
| 17 | Here , you 'll be able to enjoy the benefits of Malia 's two and a half miles of sandy beach with its range of watersports , beach bars and main street of swinging nightlife . |
| 18 | Full day trips include a drive along the magnificent High Alpine Grossglockner Road , where you will see the longest glacier in the eastern Alps the Pasterze , which is over five and a half miles long . |
| 19 | The property lies two and a half miles from Ravenstonedale , near the source of the Lune . |
| 20 | Midway , a loop road branches from the A683 and runs at a higher level before rejoining it two and a half miles further on . |
| 21 | Two and a half miles north-west of the town centre by the River Meon is the site of the Funtley Iron Mill , an eighteenth-century forge where Henry Cort , whose house remains nearby , developed in 1784 the ‘ dry puddling ’ process for producing wrought iron on a large scale . |
| 22 | On the way back we were about two and a half miles from Fordingbridge when disaster struck . |
| 23 | I have worked my beat as near as possible to 2 and a half miles an hour , and I do n't think there is much to complain about . |
| 24 | The traumatic experiences the men had already been through — the drama of the inrush of slurry , the knowledge that they were entombed , the foul air they had lived in for two days , and the threat of the gathering gas — meant that the half-mile walk wearing apparatus , and a further one and a half miles to the surface , would be a severe test of their remaining stamina and resolve . |
| 25 | The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour . |
| 26 | The riders then trot the four and a half miles to the start , a sandstone post one mile north of the old Kiplingcotes railway station . |
| 27 | The route has also changed , for the first walks were from Bradford to York , the winner of the first race taking 7 hours , 7 minutes and 50 seconds to cover the thirty-nine and a half miles . |
| 28 | It once had a spire which , along with those at Ottringham and Patrington , helped to guide the mariners sailing on the river Humber some two and a half miles to the south . |
| 29 | Over the past 60 years these villages have developed into an area of suburbia covering four and a half miles to the west of the city of Hull . |
| 30 | It is reached from the A164 by a lane about one mile long with wide verges , or by a lane about one and a half miles long from the B1248 . |