Example sentences of "[art] [adj] miles to [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 | Swiss-inclined boiler locomotives are used on the line , and the train takes one hour to travel the 4½ miles to the summit . |
| 4 | With Werewolf driving the BMW , we covered the two miles to the village of Broughton Street at Warp Factor Five . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A few miles to the south east of New Mills , east of Hillesley , stands the lovely little mill at Kilcott . |
| 8 | Hermitage with its tiny church dozes beneath High Stoy from where Grace Melbury watched her erring husband ride away on one of his visits to Mrs Charmond , and , a few miles to the west , Melbury Bubb is tucked beneath Bubb Down Hill , seemingly oblivious to the outside world . |
| 9 | The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert . |
| 10 | Across the marches , a few miles to the north-east of Willoughby is Markby . |
| 11 | But if it is military evidences that you are pursuing , then I would leave Tarbes and go instead to the splendid castle of Montaner , a few miles to the north-west — not quite Pyrenean I will admit , but near enough and certainly good enough to be brought in here . |
| 12 | A few miles to the south-west of Beverley the Scots raised their standard on the beacon at Hunsley , which marks almost the southern end of the Wolds and looks out across the Humber to Lincolnshire and across the Vale of York towards Selby and Doncaster . |
| 13 | A few miles to the east of Cirencester is the pretty village of Ampney Crucis , the Ampney Brook flowing through its centre . |
| 14 | A refinery was built for the industry at Pumpherston , a few miles to the east , and opened in 1884 . |
| 15 | During the previous day a major naval battle had ensued a few miles to the east , and had continued into the night — the ‘ Battle of Matapan ’ ; a resounding defeat for the Italian Fleet . |
| 16 | Ovedale , another esquire of the body , was from Wickham , a few miles to the east , while Kelsale , a yeoman usher , was customer of Southampton . |
| 17 | On the fourth day we moved our camp a few miles to the east , where our trackers maintained we should find the nyala more numerous ; this proved to be the case . |
| 18 | Ovedale , another esquire of the body , was from Wickham , a few miles to the east , while Kelsale , a yeoman usher , was customer of Southampton . |
| 19 | The landscape in this area of south-east Cambridgeshire and north-east Hertfordshire is certainly very different from that in Fig 7 only a few miles to the south-east ; until the nineteenth century it was a land of open fields . |
| 20 | The force-landed in the Saudi desert at dawn , a 100 miles to the south of Bahrain and the starboard undercarriage leg collapsed . |
| 21 | At the head of a small cavalry force he rode almost non-stop for two days and nights and on 12 February he fell upon Aimar 's routiers as they attacked the church of Gorre a dozen miles to the west of Limoges , believing him to be still somewhere beyond Poitiers . |
| 22 | He wore gloves , as he had since he 'd first entered the vehicle — stolen from a food depot a hundred miles to the north . |
| 23 | About a hundred miles to the west ? ’ |