Example sentences of "a [adj] 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 | 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 . |
3 | If Dedham Hall is fully booked — and it may well be — try the best bed-and-breakfast we have ever found , just a few miles away at the Old Vicarage , Higham , near Colchester . |
4 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
5 | It costs $15 for adults and $7 for children for the excitement of running not a few miles . |
6 | For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I have a feeling we must be just a few miles from the River Seine . |
9 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
10 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |
11 | Large wooded areas are rare in Pembrokeshire due to the strong winds and salt spray , but Cwm Gwaun , a few miles east of Fishguard , is one of the notable exceptions to the rule . |
12 | But a few miles south-west of these peaks are the Low Tatras . |
13 | It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant . |
14 | At 3500 miles into the Metro 's life , the Rover dealer had to sort out a badly slipping clutch and , a few miles later , replace the brake pads in a effort to cure the soggy feel of the originals . |
15 | Harewood House , a few miles north of Leeds , contains the richest collection of Chippendale furniture in the world |
16 | It was a few miles outside the pretty market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire ; two hours from London down the M4 motorway , with easy access to Wales and the West Country ; close to Princess Anne 's house , Gatcombe Park ; his friends , the ParkerBowles ; and not far from Windsor . |
17 | A few miles down the road , at the village of Sesfontein , a political rally was under way . |
18 | ASHINWARI or Afridi tribesman in Afghanistan grows the poppies and sends them by donkey or truck to his cousin a few miles away in Pakistan for processing . |
19 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
20 | Oxford itself , the ‘ city of dreaming spires ’ as John Betjeman eulogised it is only a few miles away with all its many and varied attractions . |
21 | Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets . |
22 | CAME 'S BEAUTY stems from being built in the palest of pale Portland stone , arguably the finest building stone in Britain , quarried over the down a few miles towards the sea . |
23 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
24 | Iraq 's soldiers retreated a few miles from the town ; its policemen were still there masquerading as traffic cops . |
25 | The case studies they produce later form part of the curriculum at Crotonville , the company 's management-development school a few miles up on the Hudson river from New York . |
26 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
27 | We may complain about it many times , but think of its wonderful facility of allowing us to phone that relative in the United States , or a friend a few miles away , or the butcher , or our business , and so on . |
28 | Then after a few miles the engine stopped again . |
29 | The abundance of records enabled Hipparchus to use the properties of similar triangles and sine tables to calculate the diameter of the Earth and the distance of the Moon with amazing accuracy , to within a few miles of today 's agreed figures . |
30 | A few miles outside Idar I found a meadow by the side of the Nahe where I could picnic . |