Example sentences of "within a mile " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we approach Christmas the real tragedy is that the vast majority of our friends — good , sincere people , most of them — will not get within a mile of the real meaning of Christmas . |
| 2 | Bigger employers , like the vast Beardmore 's factory at Parkhead , as well as many of the shipyards , employed people who lived within a mile 's radius , but there was large-scale unemployment , and many now had to travel miles to work . |
| 3 | As the clubhouse and first link will be within a mile of the radio station and a quarter of a mile from the borough boundary , the project ought to do good to Henley and , incidentally , raise the value of the land surrounding the course . |
| 4 | Sadler navigated the party to within a mile of the town , and splitting into groups the men headed off into the darkness laden with their bombs . |
| 5 | Ominously too , instead of staying within a mile or so of home like normal dogs , they turn into restless wanderers , propagating the virus far afield . |
| 6 | This barren and featureless area offers no promise of adventure , yet within a mile of the viaduct the unlikely terrain yields the secrets of a score of caves and potholes to those who search and succeed in locating them : some are easy , some are difficult , some are dangerous , and most remain shyly hidden . |
| 7 | Within a mile of the sea the bracken-covered hills of Exmoor , deeply intersected by wooded combes , reach heights of over 1,000 feet , and only on the lower slopes do farmers derive a living from the inhospitable soil . |
| 8 | In addition , every stone circle in England and Wales was found to be within a mile ( 1.5 km ) of a surface fault or on an associated intrusion . |
| 9 | Within a mile or less they came to a stream . |
| 10 | Lying within a mile of one of the leading financial centres of the modern capitalist economy which was about to reap the economic benefits flowing from the deregulation of the domestic financial market and the internationalisation of world financial markets in the 1980s ( Parkinson and Evans , 1990 ) , London Docklands was ripe for development . |
| 11 | The population does not , unfortunately , all live within a mile of Whitehall ; nor does it consist exclusively of Englishmen . |
| 12 | Within hours of the players arriving in Delhi , Indian Prime Minster Indira Gandhi had been shot within a mile of the team 's hotel . |
| 13 | That brought him within a mile or two of Stoke St Gregory , down the steep incline and on to the Levels , where a family of Titfords had once made their home as long ago as the end of the 16th century . |
| 14 | Overnight , the violence has spread to within a mile of my house . |
| 15 | It should be clear of controlled airspace below 3000ft , cross over a few other roads , through a small town , and have other features such as railways , rivers , canals , lakes , or disused airfields within a mile or two either side . |
| 16 | ‘ Between us we must have been to every bar within a mile radius of Times Square . |
| 17 | Approaching Keld I dropped down into the dale where Great Sleddale Beck falls over a succession of stairs , hard bands of limestone that have resisted the action of the water to form an impressive series of falls all of which are within a mile or so of Keld village . |
| 18 | ‘ If it were n't for me old bones and the fact that I might be overlooked when the bidding starts , I would n't want you within a mile of that sale room . |
| 19 | Sitting on the bus , still with my cap on my lap to avoid attracting attention , it struck me that the whole world changed within a mile or two as we left the town . |
| 20 | No magician capable of such enchantments ever came within a mile of Morpork docks . |
| 21 | Even today , private landlords within a mile of this building would say that they are nervous of letting their properties to homeless families because , and only because , of the whiff — albeit faint — of the risk of a Labour Government . |
| 22 | Lust , like love , blinds the eyes , otherwise red-cheeked Maude would never let him within a mile of her ! |
| 23 | Spend the day as you wish — but do n't go within a mile of Radcliffe or I 'll break every bone in his body . |
| 24 | There are 6 agents within a mile of his shop on the Abingdon Road and another outlet would seriously threaten his business . |
| 25 | One thing is certain … no-one at Windsor Park will go within a mile of the match officials ' kit-bags . |
| 26 | But although there is an ambulance station within a mile , a vehicle was sent out from Durham City , about 12 miles away . |
| 27 | In Bosnia itself the Serbs said they would open an air link to the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica and halted an offensive that brought their forces within a mile of its outskirts . |
| 28 | Five others , including the Scottish Militant leader Tommy Sheridan , were banned from going within a mile of the factory . |