Example sentences of "[adv] a few miles [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When south of the Mandovi , I stayed in the simpler Prainha Cottages , just a few miles south of Panjim ( Prainha , Dona Paula , tel : 8325917 ) . |
| 2 | When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed . |
| 3 | When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed . |
| 4 | They were in Carlisle , just a few miles south of the Scottish-English border . |
| 5 | Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance . |
| 6 | One such hamlet is Somersby , in the heart of the wolds , just a few miles east of the market town of Horncastle . |
| 7 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |