Example sentences of "few miles from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Florida has two other prominent international junior training centres — the Rick Macci International Tennis Academy at Grenelefe Resort a few miles from Orlando and Disney World ; and Harry Hopman/Saddlebrook Resort in the town of Wesley Chapel near Tampa . |
| 2 | Seventeenth July — I joined about 20 Commandos from the various units around the village on a trip to a quiet part of the beach a few miles from our front-line positions . |
| 3 | I have a feeling we must be just a few miles from the River Seine . |
| 4 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 5 | Iraq 's soldiers retreated a few miles from the town ; its policemen were still there masquerading as traffic cops . |
| 6 | Tabor , named from a hill a few miles from Bethlehem , was founded in 1420 by the Taborites , the radical wing of the Hussite movement . |
| 7 | One particularly notable example of the latter stands part way along the Nailsworth Valley , a few miles from Stroud and is one of the most impressive monuments to the Stroud woollen industry to survive ; the massive range of buildings called Dunkirk Mills . |
| 8 | Bisham 's medieval Abbey stands alongside the river Thames , just a few miles from Marlow . |
| 9 | And , Germany suffered a massive blow to its pride when the Hindenburg crashed in a ball of flames just a few miles from Nicholson 's home town , Neptune , New Jersey soon after he was born . |
| 10 | Harry Poat left on his mission and Stirling split the remaining force into two groups which would travel independently to a further rendezvous at Bir Soltane , only a few miles from the Mareth line . |
| 11 | For instance , through most of history , and in most parts of the world ( though not , as it happens , in our modern world ) , individual humans have seldom strayed more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 12 | WINDY Loch Assynt lies a few miles from the coast , near the picturesque fishing village of Lochinver ; surrounded by a ridge of mountains eleven miles in length , none of which drop below 2,000 feet , crowned by Sutherland 's highest peak , mighty Ben More Assynt . |
| 13 | It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house . |
| 14 | A few miles from Huntspill , in the hamlet of Shurton , lived Henry Poole , a fellow student of Coleridge 's at Jesus College , and one member of a large and talented family whose various branches were scattered through a number of local villages . |
| 15 | Fortunately , in 1749 , it was recorded in the form Abotsbery Land and was shown subsequently to belong to the poor lands charity of Abbotsbury , a few miles from Weymouth in Dorset . |
| 16 | We were only a few miles from the coast , but in the days before we had our own car , visits to the sea were exciting expeditions . |
| 17 | Green 's memorial tablet is in the church of St Mary the Virgin at Monken Hadley , only a few miles from the College 's Hawkshead campus . |
| 18 | These stories occur world wide , so I will limit myself to two which are told of sites on the Yorkshire Wolds only a few miles from where I live . |
| 19 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 20 | A few miles from the coast the landscape turns flat , drab and barren . |
| 21 | In 1989 , living in a motel between Santa Cruz and Watsonville only a few miles from the epicentre of the Loma Prieta earthquake , I had walked with Frank Bardacke in its aftermath down the streets of Watsonville and counted score and score of the old Maybeck homes , tossed off their piers , broken-backed , red-tagged , finished . |
| 22 | As a direct consequence of that success , we believe that the inaugural World Sevens , taking place only a few miles from the company headquarters in Perth and with its strong Scottish flavour through its base at Murrayfield , ideally suited for The Famous Grouse . |
| 23 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
| 24 | She was brought up in Cramer , a coastal village a few miles from Dunstanburgh . |
| 25 | And it gives me great pleasure to personally invite you and your guest , to spend a luxurious weekend on the Craigendarroch Country Estate , just a few miles from Balmoral in the heart of Royal Deeside . |
| 26 | The new location could be only a few miles from the present site — especially if one of the company 's priorities is to retain existing staff . |
| 27 | A few miles from where the tiny ships first ‘ debouched from the Strait ’ is a spot which marks one of the suture-lines of the planet , one of those rare sites where can be seen the brushstrokes of creation . |
| 28 | Easily Accessible : The village of Raskelf is a rural community lying at the northern end of the Vale of York , a few miles from the Hambleton Hills which form the southern edge of the North York Moors . |
| 29 | IBM UK Ltd is likely to underwrite the construction by Mimtec Ltd , an electronics manufacturer owned by Murray International Holdings Plc of a new plant in Gourock , a few miles from IBM 's Greenock personal computer factory : the plant would employ about 400 people assembling personal computers under contract to IBM ; according to the Financial Times , some £9m of the cost of the plant would be met by an enterprise trust , with the rest from grants ; IBM would ultimately take over the plant when the trust was paid off . |
| 30 | A few miles from Gunby is a quite unassumingly important site to be found where the marshlands give way to the slightly hilly area in the shadow of the wolds . |