Example sentences of "a mile of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far too often with a low cable break , the pilot goes for the airbrakes when there is a mile of field ahead and no hurry whatsoever . |
| 2 | At the end of a quarter of a mile of rough track it seems on first sight to be a typically humble and remote farmhouse , with its low and unobtrusive policies almost growing around it . |
| 3 | I ran back half a mile of road to get a glimpse of her in the distance , though we had passed her half an hour before , & of course she was out of sight on the Downs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Phar Lap was ridden by Bill ‘ Urn ’ Elliott , who got the gelding smartly into his stride , but Phar Lap drifted right over to the outside rail , with the result that after a quarter of a mile of the ten-furlong race he was well adrift of the field . |
| 6 | The molten rock is within half a mile of the gates of Zafferana Etnea , a town of 7,000 people . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The beach at Skara Brae , the Bay of Skail , is one of the loveliest in Scotland : half a mile of yellow sand , washed by endless , white-fringed , green Atlantic waves . |
| 10 | It was nearly a mile of steep climbing , he knew , before he would emerge on to the open heathland where The Drover 's Arms stood . |
| 11 | Downriver , two insignificant openings on the north bank admit to half a mile of underground passages : these are subject to flooding and should not be entered by other than experienced cavers . |
| 12 | Since the times of Victorian patronage , explorations have opened up half a mile of underground passages leading from the floor of the cave , but these later discoveries are for experts only : amateurs should venture no further than the bottom of the steps . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There , down a mile of scree , were thousands of palm trees , and , I thought , a village . |
| 15 | Hoomey , having learnt to steer his bus at a steady canter round the railway cinder track and clear two foot of sleepers on each circuit , now found himself with quarter of a mile of galloping grass and a hedgerow at the end of it reinforced with a telegraph pole . |
| 16 | The shops which they visit most frequently are likely to be within about a mile of their home . |
| 17 | Grimsby 's Fish Dock is said to the the world 's biggest fish market , with nearly a mile of quays . |
| 18 | The barn was big and roomy , and they had always been able to play the noisiest games in it without fear of disturbing or upsetting anyone , for there was nobody living within half a mile of it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Each year , Bonfire Night was the highlight of early winter and I was fortunate enough to live within a quarter of a mile of The Greencroft , which became the mecca on November 5th for people from all parts of the City . |
| 21 | It now houses nearly three million volumes and each year an additional half a mile of shelving is needed . |
| 22 | The sight of the brigade turning out to a call , pulled by magnificent black horses , drew every child within half a mile of the Works main gates when the warning hooter sounded . |
| 23 | The campus is within half a mile of the city centre . |
| 24 | The campus is within half a mile of the city centre . |
| 25 | Then , there was a mile of deep treacherous water separating him from the Forest of Dean . |
| 26 | Almost a third of a mile of ‘ 00 ’ gauge track — equivalent to 25 miles — plus a stunning ‘ N ’ gauge model of a Bavarian town where time flies with a dramatic change of lighting from day to night every 3 minutes . |
| 27 | There was nearly a mile of dense woodland at this point before the swampy ground began and it was over an hour before Crane returned saying that no-one had passed on that side . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | One moment we were stationary , the next sliding forward smoothly , the transition from rest to motion of a quarter of a mile of metal achieved as if on silk . |
| 30 | The population does not , unfortunately , all live within a mile of Whitehall ; nor does it consist exclusively of Englishmen . |