Example sentences of "a [num] miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Farmer who 's already recorded the fastest lap of just over a 120 miles an hour is teaming up with Robert Dunlop … they ride over six laps … |
| 2 | Wilf Orton , prosecuting , said Hooker , driving at up to 50 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour limit , had been trying to over-take four slower moving vehicles when he hit the other car side on . |
| 3 | Sheephaven Bay must make a 360 miles round trip for their opening fixture at Donaghadee . |
| 4 | He makes contacts with Eritrean representatives in London , and then the professional lure of a scoop brings him , bumpily , to the front line in the mountains , with Asmara , the capital , only a 100 miles away . |
| 5 | I followed them at all three , but if The Valley was a 100 miles away , I 'd still be back . ’ |
| 6 | The force-landed in the Saudi desert at dawn , a 100 miles to the south of Bahrain and the starboard undercarriage leg collapsed . |
| 7 | You might try driving a car at a brick wall at a 100 miles an hour on the off chance of coming to no harm at all , but please make sure you have renewed your NI subscription first . |
| 8 | Brenda Campbell says to ride a 100 miles on a horse is quite something in itself but to ride it at a fast pace and be able to get off is semothing else and it 's the best thing you can do with a horse |
| 9 | The offshore championship is held over 10 rounds off the coast of Britain … the races can be anything up to a 100 miles … today its the Eastbourne Grand Prix … there 's not a deckchair to be had on the pier … its standing room only as thousands roll up to watch the big boats bouncing their way through the water … |
| 10 | Such was their isolation that their way of life hardly reflected at all the kind to be found just a dozen miles away . |
| 11 | The Lancashire team , housed only half a dozen miles from Old Trafford , have slipped from grace after months of political unheaval following their last-gasp failure to beat Barnet to an automatic place in the Football League two years ago . |
| 12 | A dog otter 's territory can stretch for up to a dozen miles which gives some indication of their range . |
| 13 | It was true that in such a solitary place anyone within a dozen miles must have heard him . |
| 14 | Partly because those who served in garrisons had to be ready to serve in the field when required ( for a castle acted as a base where soldiers could remain when not in the field , and from which they could control the countryside around by mounted raids within a radius of , say , a dozen miles ) , partly because of an increasing difficulty in securing active support from the nobility and gentry for the war in France , English armies at the end of the war sometimes included a greater ratio of archers to men-at-arms than ever before , sometimes 7:1 or even 10:1 , rather than the more usual 3:1 under Henry V and the parity of archers to men-at-arms normally found in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 15 | At the head of a small cavalry force he rode almost non-stop for two days and nights and on 12 February he fell upon Aimar 's routiers as they attacked the church of Gorre a dozen miles to the west of Limoges , believing him to be still somewhere beyond Poitiers . |
| 16 | In place of a sandy , open heath , supporting a rough pasture , there would be a dozen miles of flowering hawthorn in time , enclosing small fields that were being assiduously marled to produce corn crops . |
| 17 | The isolation — I have only once been in an admission ward less than a dozen miles from my home — and the physical environment — inappropriate design , upstairs dormitories that must be locked all day , uninvolving regimentation — are aspects of a system of care whose inadequacies should not be underestimated . |
| 18 | During Hannah 's childhood and well beyond , Dalesfolk lived in a closed world where to travel more than a dozen miles from the farmstead was an unusual adventure the wireless a strange and suspicious device from foreign parts and a local newspaper something of an occasional luxury . |
| 19 | ‘ He 'll manage twenty-five miles or so by nightfall , and that will bring him to the stream over there called the Carron , with a dozen miles of forest and boggy ground between himself and the main river-crossing . |
| 20 | The island is little more than a dozen miles long and in places only a mile or two wide . |
| 21 | I recently changed my 1971 Range Rover for a 26,000 miles , high compression engine , 1984 model . |
| 22 | A thousand miles away |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't come a thousand miles , ’ he muttered into the microphone , ‘ to kill babies , or to support their killing . |
| 24 | If mangroves are destroyed ( as they often are , to create beaches and hotels — as in Miami ) then marine ecosystems a thousand miles away may suffer . |
| 25 | But true to the political contours of Lebanon and what is now Israel , I had to fly to Greece , then to Tel Aviv and then take a four-hour car journey to see it , a round-trip of almost a thousand miles . |
| 26 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 27 | He noted the classification of these stations , the great variety of styles used , and their relative paucity over vast desert distances compared with European standards — only sixty in a thousand miles — and their distance from the towns and cities they were to serve . |
| 28 | We often lost each other on the seven barges being pushed a thousand miles up the Zaire River , once Conrad 's Congo . |
| 29 | In 1885 Frederick Cranko ( who , after starting as a sailor , worked as a tailor , an engraver and a clerk ) joined the gold rush to Pretoria and thence to Johannesburg , a thousand miles from Cape Town . |
| 30 | The journey of almost a thousand miles took more than two nights and a day by steam train , along track of narrower gauge than is usual elsewhere , and therefore with slower speeds . |