Example sentences of "[pron] [be] only [art] few miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I was only a few miles away over the river , I missed the London I was getting to know and played games with myself like : if the secret police ordered you to live in the suburbs for the rest of your life , what would you do ? |
| 2 | My first efforts to find Roztoky , which is only a few miles outside Prague , were a horror story of wrong turnings , lengthy detours and rush-hour traffic . |
| 3 | all the way , you look one way as far as you can see and you , when you go to Gibraltar you 're only a few miles from Africa |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
| 6 | It 's only a few miles away . ’ |
| 7 | It 's only a few miles further along the road . ’ |
| 8 | Just a I think you should give us that , it 's only a few miles away ! |
| 9 | Give us that Stu , it 's only a few miles away . |
| 10 | Whereas really it 's only a few miles as the crow flies as it were . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It is only a few miles outside Tbilisi . |
| 13 | It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant . |
| 14 | However , if the sun were to shrink until it was only a few miles across , the bending would be so great that light leaving the sun would not get away but would be dragged back by the sun 's gravitational field . |
| 15 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |