Example sentences of "[art] [adj] miles [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The track has been converted into a cycle and pedestrian walkway , and people with energy can walk the eleven miles to the coast . |
| 2 | Dropping the kids off at my mother-in-law 's , I trudged the few miles to the hospital taking the short cut through the grounds to the usual ward . |
| 3 | The heightened interest in underwater archaeology caused by the find of the Brindisi bronzes has prompted the new Ministro per i Beni Culturali , Alberto Ronchey , to propose changes in the law : first , to extend the limit of Italian territorial waters beyond the six miles off the coast currently in force and beyond the seabed on the continental shelf ( no distance has yet been specified ) ; second , to consider allocating underwater ‘ concessions ’ to non-government teams who would take a course in the theory and practice of underwater excavation and make up the shortfall in trained divers . |
| 4 | The Palin charm and good humour wash off without leaving any residue for all the 30,000 miles on the clock , and all the pounds on the budget , and Passepartout 's diligent camera , and Roger Mills 's direction . |
| 5 | In all , he spent the best part of four hours in the water , before meeting up at Gloucester Cathedral with the Bishop of Tewkesbury ( above ) , who had walked the 10 miles along the river bank ( a much more sensible idea ) , the culmination of a week-long pilgrimage around his diocese . |
| 6 | There is a magical quality of invention about the Red House , and perhaps one 's excitement is heightened by imagining Morris 's friends arriving at Abbey Wood Station and driving the three miles into the country to come and stay here . |
| 7 | He flew the 90 miles at a height of less than 100ft , to dodge both Cuban and American radar defences , until he reached his home city of Matanzas . |
| 8 | On his ‘ China voyage ’ he plans to spend from May to October sailing the 4,500 miles up the coast of East Asia and riding what the Japanese call the kuroshio ( the black current ) to North America . |
| 9 | I was glad to reach Garrynahine Inn , and after the fourteen miles of a walk was not unthankful to test the merits of a roasted wild duck for breakfast . |
| 10 | I well recall walking the 11 miles from the airfield to Epernay . |
| 11 | It had taken three cars to get the ten miles from the city to the airport ; Georgians get uncharacteristically ruthless about transport in times of war , when petrol is scarce . |
| 12 | Last in was the train passenger , who took 52 mins ( average speed , 7.5 mph ) ; this , despite the fact that a train was scheduled at exactly the right time for the contestant to catch by cycling the 0.7 miles from the start to the station . |
| 13 | Swiss-inclined boiler locomotives are used on the line , and the train takes one hour to travel the 4½ miles to the summit . |
| 14 | With Werewolf driving the BMW , we covered the two miles to the village of Broughton Street at Warp Factor Five . |
| 15 | Before that the rector of Worth travelled the four miles along the Priest 's Way to officiate at Swanage . |
| 16 | still has all the original documentation for the car and believes the 51,000 miles on the speedo to be true , but he is fascinated by its history and would like to find our more . |
| 17 | Since 1926 the western fringes of the Cheviots have been planted with 250 square miles of close-packed conifers , while in their depths sprawl the seven miles of the Kielder Water reservoir , Europe 's largest man-made lake . |
| 18 | Easily Accessible : There is a large number of footpaths and bridleways in the area , and two long-distance paths , the Oxford Way and the Cotswold Way , pass within a few miles of the hotel . |
| 19 | Police here are publicising facilities within a few miles of the road . |
| 20 | The travelling chaos of a modern party leader 's election entourage had carried Major within a few miles of the home of the founder of the profession , a few of whose more troublesome contemporary practitioners are said to have caused him much irritation over the 16 months of his premiership . |
| 21 | They set off quite cheerily , but when they were within a few miles of the tarmac coast road , the truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch . |
| 22 | At dawn they were well hidden in a cave and the following night they were able to march to within a few miles of the beach where they were to be picked up . |
| 23 | At Walkerburn , a few miles along the river from Peebles , a mill shop and wool museum display all the processes of shearing , cleaning , spinning , carding , dyeing and weaving . |
| 24 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 25 | On a dark and icy cold morning in January 1946 I flew in an RAF plane from Berlin to Kiel and then drove in a jeep to a British Army Church House a few miles outside the city . |
| 26 | Now , of course , there 's also Euro Disney , a few miles outside the city at Marnela-Vallée . |
| 27 | She holds clinics in the areas in and around Cape Town — the shanty towns begin a few miles outside the city and the houses improve markedly the nearer the centre you get — and Rose believes that the fruits of her success will start to become evident in two or three years . |
| 28 | He camped a few miles outside the town and there remained , determined to outface Ras Tafari , whom he discounted as astute but weak . |
| 29 | 1849 the women were moved to the manor house at Dalston , a few miles to the north , but the institution 's functions were subsumed in those of other bodies . |
| 30 | He remembered staring out from the nest site on a clear cold morning and seeing a line of grey-blue a few miles to the north which they said was the sea . |