Example sentences of "few miles [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets .
2 A few miles west from Garry Bridge is Queen 's View , a rocky , pine-clad promontory with stunning views westwards down Loch Tummel to graceful Schiehallion .
3 Large quarry faces at Scrabo Hill , a few miles west of Newtownards , show porous dune-bedded sandstones associated with rippled sandstones and thin layers of clay galls .
4 Further north , and a few miles west of Fréteval , which Philip had held since last June , the lord of Vendôme switched his allegiance to France .
5 Just a few miles west in the grounds of Nuneham Conference Park stands another folly which has ended up in an unexpected place .
6 Harewood House , a few miles north of Leeds , contains the richest collection of Chippendale furniture in the world
7 A few miles north of Banbury , in the village of Cropredy , Prescote Manor dominates the meadows of the Cherwell River .
8 A famous attempt to resolve the matter is commemorated at Altnacealgach , ‘ the burn of the cheat ’ , a few miles north from Elphin .
9 In Dyfed ( formerly Pembrokeshire ) Hancock et al. ( 1983 ) locate the Variscan Front in a zone of conjugate folds and thrusts a few miles north of the Johnston Thrust .
10 The 114-acre Jordanstown campus is situated in the borough of Newtownabbey , a few miles north of Belfast .
11 The 114-acre Jordanstown campus is situated in the borough of Newtownabbey , a few miles north of Belfast .
12 From here William marched his men to the spot , a few miles north of Hastings , where the Norman and Saxon armies met in bloody battle on October 14th , 1066 .
13 A few miles north of Leominster , Berrington Hall is an 18th-century house with gardens designed by the father-in-law of Capability Brown .
14 Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance .
15 ‘ There 's an airfield a few miles north , between here and Trapani . ’
16 A few miles north of Thurlstone the new textile settlement at Clayton West had chapels for the Wesleyans , Independents , Particular Baptists , Methodist New Connection and Primitive Methodists , and the new Wesleyan Reform movement met in Aaron Peace 's warehouse , but those who preferred the services of the established church had to climb the steep hill to the ancient parochial centre at High Hoyland .
17 I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night .
18 He was on patrol with two other UN military observers when the mine exploded as they were driving around a small bridge a few miles north of the temples in Siem Reap province .
19 The discovery was made by a farmer 's son , Euan Baird , 16 , who was out walking in a private forestry plantation near the family farm at Scotston , Auchterhouse , a few miles north of Dundee .
20 Henry VIII impressed the Continent , in the midsummer of 1520 , at the ‘ Field of the Cloth of Gold ’ held a few miles south of Calais , and which lasted four weeks with jousts , summit talks , banquets and entertainment .
21 A few miles south from Bettyhill , named after the infamous Countess Duchess of Sutherland , is another notable Strathnaver memorial .
22 A few miles south , Vindolanda was the home of 500 Roman auxiliary soldiers .
23 Toftingall , which lies a few miles south from the village of Watten , was one of the first Caithness lochs we fished .
24 A few miles south from Brora , past the Duke of Sutherland 's monstrous French-château fantasy castle at Dunrobin , is the town of Golspie , whose name derives from the old gaelic word meaning the ‘ place of the strangers ’ and although evidence is sparse , it is thought that the strangers in question were Vikings .
25 The horse-drawn Whitby and Pickering Railway of George Stephenson ( q.v. ) required the building of the Moorgate bridge in 1835 , a few miles south of this village on the North York Moors .
26 A few miles south of Cambridge , and just as accessible from London , is Audley End House which is well worth a detour .
27 When you visit the ancient university town of Cambridge and enjoy the historic college buildings along the River Cam , you should not fail to travel a few miles south to Audley End House in neighbouring Essex .
28 Listening to the autumn wind moaning across this corner of the sparse Northumberland coastline a few miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed , where Nora Simpson had lived for all of her married life , their memories of her were vivid .
29 When south of the Mandovi , I stayed in the simpler Prainha Cottages , just a few miles south of Panjim ( Prainha , Dona Paula , tel : 8325917 ) .
30 When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed .
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