Example sentences of "a mile [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three-quarters of a mile south of the church , down a bumpy farm track which was once a well used road , is the greatest beauty of all , a silvery oak-timbered house called The Ley . |
| 2 | The estate also offer fishing on a smaller water , Starburn Loch , a mile south from Drumlanrig Castle . |
| 3 | In Bourne Road , a mile south of the town centre , is Bourne Mill , now a property of the National Trust . |
| 4 | In the vicinity of the village in the Cartmel Fells , particularly at Mireside , half a mile south , and at Poll Bank Farm , two miles south on minor road to Witherslack , ‘ spinning galleries ’ may be observed built into farmhouses . |
| 5 | The hamlet of Castle , a mile South of Lostwithiel , has also been suggested as the site of the palace from which Iseult watched for her Tristan across what were then tidal waters but is now a small stream . |
| 6 | There 's a street called South Parade and , half a mile south of it , one called North Parade . |
| 7 | CHESTERS HILL-FORT North of Haddington , signposted a mile south of Drem . |
| 8 | FERNIEHIRST Off the A68 a mile south of Jedburgh . |
| 9 | Our accommodation is in holiday apartments set in pleasant grounds about 250 to 400 years inland from the sailing beach , and about half a mile south of the town centre . |
| 10 | The Abbey Lane Pumping Station at the junction of the Leicester Canal with the River Soar , a mile north of the city centre in Corporation Road , was built in 1891 as a sewage pumping works . |
| 11 | The barrow was subsequently restored and is still to be found deep in the moors half a mile North East of the Hurlers . |
| 12 | Hotel : ( For a wider choice head a mile north to Glenridding ) . |
| 13 | Olga took a room for me just a mile north of Park Terrace — but in another world , the world of rooming houses . |
| 14 | By 1831 the Kitchings had outgrown Tubwell Row and moved a mile north to Hopetown . |
| 15 | It was found abandoned about half a mile north in Leaburn Street . |
| 16 | I can smell trouble o' that sort a mile orf . ’ |
| 17 | Huge lakes of oil , some over a mile square and up to a metre deep , are persisting in the Kuwaiti desert , taking over from the oil fires as the most serious threat to the country 's environment . |
| 18 | Continue on tracks heading east around the bottom of the tarn and after around ⅓ of a mile turn right and head south . |
| 19 | After about a mile turn east and then north to Weston Farm . |
| 20 | If the housing market is some kind of barometer for the rest of the economy , it may be time for a mile sigh of relief . |
| 21 | With the engines as well , this train covered more than a quarter of a mile standing still . |
| 22 | After around half a mile branch right to cross the Mellte above the Upper Clungwyn Falls . |
| 23 | The traffic that had caused the furrows a mile back could not have come this way . |
| 24 | The hydraulics gave out their whine as he joined other crew members staring down at the scene below and half a mile back . |
| 25 | He had noticed a telephone kiosk a quarter of a mile back . |
| 26 | So next time you catch up at the lights with the smug so and so who was stuck to your bumper a mile back , with all the understanding you can muster just remind him that : ‘ There , there dear , size is n't everything you know . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If you ran a mile race , you would go off fairly quickly then settle at an even pace before building up towards the end . |
| 28 | PETER ELLIOTT , the Commonwealth 1500 metres champion , returns to action following an ankle injury in a mile race at Rotherham tonight . |
| 29 | In the woods near Duddon Bridge , a mile west of the town , are the remains of a charcoal blast furnace , with some ruined buildings and workers ' dwellings nearby . |
| 30 | In the Sporting Magazine for March 1794 , there appears a ‘ picturesque view of Palfrey 's Infirmary ’ said to be about a quarter of a mile west of Coventry . |