Example sentences of "[adj] miles or [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'll manage twenty-five miles or so by nightfall , and that will bring him to the stream over there called the Carron , with a dozen miles of forest and boggy ground between himself and the main river-crossing . |
| 2 | How can this be done if the patient is 50 miles or so from home ? |
| 3 | And if that boisterous Channel and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us , I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt ; and then I 've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly . ’ |
| 4 | We only make it a hundred miles or so before evening falls . |
| 5 | Frederick had true imperial blood in his veins as the son of the Emperor Henry VI and the grandson of Barbarossa and he could not allow the narrow strip of fifty miles or so of corridor land to impede his ambitions . |