Example sentences of "[noun sg] a few miles from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden .
2 She was brought up in Cramer , a coastal village a few miles from Dunstanburgh .
3 The latest 280sq miles of fields stretch from the Red Wharf Bay area of Anglesey to a point a few miles from Crosby .
4 Tabor , named from a hill a few miles from Bethlehem , was founded in 1420 by the Taborites , the radical wing of the Hussite movement .
5 But Florida has two other prominent international junior training centres — the Rick Macci International Tennis Academy at Grenelefe Resort a few miles from Orlando and Disney World ; and Harry Hopman/Saddlebrook Resort in the town of Wesley Chapel near Tampa .
6 He taught at the College of Further Education a few miles from Spaxton ; she had met him through a rambling club .
7 Their first project , the design of a wetland to treat household sewage from a hotel a few miles from Drumnadrochit and Loch Ness , exemplifies this belief .
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