Example sentences of "[art] [adj] miles from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I well recall walking the 11 miles from the airfield to Epernay . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 5 | As a direct consequence of that success , we believe that the inaugural World Sevens , taking place only a few miles from the company headquarters in Perth and with its strong Scottish flavour through its base at Murrayfield , ideally suited for The Famous Grouse . |
| 6 | In 1989 , living in a motel between Santa Cruz and Watsonville only a few miles from the epicentre of the Loma Prieta earthquake , I had walked with Frank Bardacke in its aftermath down the streets of Watsonville and counted score and score of the old Maybeck homes , tossed off their piers , broken-backed , red-tagged , finished . |
| 7 | With four more rounds to go King can not be caught but he was still disappointed when he spoke afterwards about a race during which victory was snatched from his grasp only a few miles from the finish . |
| 8 | Nearly 6,000 miles away from the fog and frost of Britain , the southern Californian desert just a few miles from the border of Mexico . |
| 9 | Trooper Consiglio was killed in a firefight as the patrol retreated towards Syria , before Corporal Lane also developed hypothermia … he died just a few miles from the border . |
| 10 | His shop , just a few miles from the border , was firebombed in 1973 and rebuilt . |
| 11 | It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house . |
| 12 | I was passed out after a night drinking rice wine and native beer with my band of happy , brother war correspondents in the bar of a hotel a few miles from the front . |
| 13 | WINDY Loch Assynt lies a few miles from the coast , near the picturesque fishing village of Lochinver ; surrounded by a ridge of mountains eleven miles in length , none of which drop below 2,000 feet , crowned by Sutherland 's highest peak , mighty Ben More Assynt . |
| 14 | We were only a few miles from the coast , but in the days before we had our own car , visits to the sea were exciting expeditions . |
| 15 | A few miles from the coast the landscape turns flat , drab and barren . |
| 16 | ‘ As the cockle-gatherers of Penclawdd , the seaside village a few miles from the Eisteddfod field realise only too well , the ebb never leaves empty-handed it leaves behind traces of new life . |
| 17 | The Jungle Giants nursery is at Wigmore a few miles from the show garden . |
| 18 | Green 's memorial tablet is in the church of St Mary the Virgin at Monken Hadley , only a few miles from the College 's Hawkshead campus . |
| 19 | A few miles from the house where Irina and I live lies an old churchyard . |
| 20 | The men were waiting for Karen in a hotel room a few miles from the accident . |
| 21 | Iraq 's soldiers retreated a few miles from the town ; its policemen were still there masquerading as traffic cops . |
| 22 | A Northern registered car , believed to belong to the men , was discovered at Annagh , a few miles from the town . |
| 23 | A Northern registered car , believed to belong to the men , was discovered at Annagh , a few miles from the town . |
| 24 | During Hannah 's childhood and well beyond , Dalesfolk lived in a closed world where to travel more than a dozen miles from the farmstead was an unusual adventure the wireless a strange and suspicious device from foreign parts and a local newspaper something of an occasional luxury . |
| 25 | The descent is via Far Easedale — a wild valley which seems a thousand miles from the tourist bustle it leads to at Grasmere . |
| 26 | Elsewhere in Amazonia , a thousand miles from the Tappajoss federal police recently responded to the murder , by Garrimperos of seventeen Yanamami Indians . |
| 27 | But his luxury home , complete with a trout farm and stables , is a million miles from the council prefab he was brought up in during the '50s . |
| 28 | She felt hung over , and a million miles from the bed she wanted to be asleep in . |
| 29 | It is very heated and more than anything else I have done would take me a million miles from the safety of Ramsay Street , ’ she said . |
| 30 | The Peleus had been sunk at 7.30 p.m. ; Eck therefore had a whole night 's steaming to put himself a hundred miles from the sinking before submerging at dawn . |