Example sentences of "a few miles outside " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a few miles outside the pretty market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire ; two hours from London down the M4 motorway , with easy access to Wales and the West Country ; close to Princess Anne 's house , Gatcombe Park ; his friends , the ParkerBowles ; and not far from Windsor . |
| 2 | My first efforts to find Roztoky , which is only a few miles outside Prague , were a horror story of wrong turnings , lengthy detours and rush-hour traffic . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Sussex campus , with its tastefully harmonized buildings in the modernist-Palladian style , arranged in elegant perspective at the foot of the South Downs a few miles outside Brighton , was much admired by architects , but had a somewhat disorienting effect on the young people who came to study there . |
| 5 | Nick took her to a small restaurant a few miles outside Cambridge , where they both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened . |
| 6 | Now , of course , there 's also Euro Disney , a few miles outside the city at Marnela-Vallée . |
| 7 | ‘ It is only a few miles outside Tbilisi . |
| 8 | This charming house is prettily and conveniently set in a rural position , just a few miles outside Chester . |
| 9 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 10 | Mr Deng 's dash for rural freedom began in villages like one a few miles outside Chengdu , Sichuan 's capital . |
| 11 | and in October he moved down to Shamley Green , a village a few miles outside Guildford and within commuting distance of London . |
| 12 | He camped a few miles outside the town and there remained , determined to outface Ras Tafari , whom he discounted as astute but weak . |
| 13 | Dave 's house was a surprise ; a very comfortable modern bungalow with all mod cons , a few miles outside Kirkwall , with all the fishing and shooting he could wish for right on his doorstep . |
| 14 | A few miles outside Moscow on a ridge of hills sloping steeply down to the river Moskva below is the Church of the Decapitation of S. John the Baptist at Dyakovo ( 245 ) , which is only about a mile away across the trees and woods from the unusual Church of the Ascension at Kolomenskoe ( Chapter 5 , Fig. 560 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |