Example sentences of "miles [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN THE closing years of the twentieth century , the wind-swept island of Foula , 20 miles west of the main Shetland group , has reported its first recorded case of vandalism . |
| 2 | The dam itself — 45 miles west of Exeter and completed two months ago — is 430 metres across and 40 metres high . |
| 3 | A district army commander in a small outpost 10 miles west of Kampot town admitted last month that the mines his troops had planted at the foot of the mountains were designed only partly to defend their position . |
| 4 | By air Leeds–Bradford Airport is at Yeadon , seven miles west of Leeds . |
| 5 | Sited ten miles west of Oxford is the small market town of Witney . |
| 6 | Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets . |
| 7 | Eyam Hall in Derbyshire is off the A623 , 12 miles west of Chesterfield , 15 miles south-west of Sheffield . |
| 8 | Since the Khartoum regime launched a five-pronged ‘ final offensive ’ against the mainly Christian or animist rebels in early March , its army has taken Pochala , Col Garang 's hometown of Bor , and a string of smaller towns , advancing to within 30 miles west of the rebel headquarters at Torit . |
| 9 | In July 1663 , Richard Baxter left London for reasons of health and went to live in Acton , which was then a village six miles west of the capital . |
| 10 | Ten miles west of London , near Hounslow , Archibald Campbell ( 1682–1761 ) , the 3rd Duke of Argyll , established his garden at Whitton . |
| 11 | The great Civil War battle of Marston Moor , in the vales of Yorkshire , in July 1644 , with Parliamentary troops under the command of Cromwell , Fairfax and Leven , with Lord Manchester in overall command , resulted in a great victory for Parliament , but it was not followed up by Lord Manchester , much to the chagrin of Cromwell , and the Royalists managed a considerable victory in September of that year , at Lostwithiel , thirty miles west of Plymouth . |
| 12 | It is around 22 miles east of Cheltenham , 20 miles west of Oxford and 18 miles north of Swindon . |
| 13 | Housteads , eight-and-a-half miles west of Chollerford , is the best preserved fort along the wall : five acres in extent and once accommodating 1,000 infantry . |
| 14 | The most convenient place to start the walk is the small secluded settlement of Masongill , reached by a signposted byroad from the A65 two miles west of Ingleton . |
| 15 | Didcot is 53 miles west of London , 10 miles south of Oxford and is well served by British Rail with regular Inter-City 125 trains from London Paddington , Reading , Swindon , Bath , Bristol and South Wales . |
| 16 | In this district of Bristol , two miles west of the city centre , is the famous suspension bridge crossing the Avon Gorge 245 feet above the river . |
| 17 | Four miles west of Bovey Tracey , on the east side of Dartmoor , are the abandoned granite quarries of Haytor , opened early in the nineteenth century by George Templer . |
| 18 | Coleridge said in later life that the farmhouse to which he now retreated was called Brimstone ( no doubt a Coleridgean attempt at Broomstreet , which stood two miles west of the combe ) . |
| 19 | Two intersecting lines of seismic were recorded to 12 sec TWT , the longer north-south line running from the Devizes borehole to a point 10 miles west of Swindon . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For one thing it was not an air field but a large old house right in the centre of Huntingdon , a small market town about twenty miles west of Cambridge . |
| 22 | Because the 40 metre-deep main is pressurised by gravity it does away with the need to pump vast quantities of water — at great expense — across London from the Thames 10 miles west of the city . |
| 23 | It is 6 miles N.W. of Brackley and the A43 and 10 miles west of Towcester and the A5 . |
| 24 | The hot Cyprus autumn moved from one week to the next , and Zacco prepared for his forthcoming triumph by installing himself in the moated citadel built by his great-grandfather at Sigouri , ten miles west of the besieged Famagusta . |
| 25 | We picked up the Lorrimores ’ car at one point three miles west of Cartier . |
| 26 | Situated in 700 acres of the beautiful Seven Sisters Country Park on the A259 , 5 miles west of Eastbourne , 1 mile east of Seaford . |
| 27 | The village of North Ferriby is situated on gently rising ground on the north bank of the river Humber , about seven miles west of the city of Hull . |
| 28 | It nestles on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds about five miles west of Bridlington along the A1253 Bridlington to York road . |
| 29 | The village of Sancton lies about eight miles west of Beverley on the Market Weighton to Brough road . |
| 30 | South Cave is situated twelve miles west of Hull . |