Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] miles [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the Garrimpos Just a few miles down stream , the silvery waters of the Cristolino flow into the Tellisperos river , and vanish , stained by it 's burden of silt . |
| 2 | Skipper Mike Harris managed to locate feeding fish on the shallow reefs just a few miles from shore where John Smith , Bryce Smith and Jamie Smith from Meols , and Liverpool tackle dealer Alan Sharpe , included 50 tasty black bream in their haul . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | No doubt can exist of his Anglophilia , yet he now says that when he heard McQueen tell the story of the ‘ 45 , ‘ I could not refrain from tears , ’ and qualifies his response by discussing a set of feelings not a million miles from sentimentality ; ‘ The very Highland names , or the sound of a bagpipe , will stir my blood , and fill me with a mixture of melancholy and respect for courage ; with pity for an unfortunate and superstitious regard for antiquity , and thoughtless inclination for war ; in short , with a crowd of sensations with which sober rationality has nothing to do . ’ |
| 5 | It 's about a hundred miles from Vitez to Split but they have to cross and recross the front lines in a war that 's unpredictable . |