Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a few miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a more modest level , the office of clerk of the works at Middleham was filled by a Westmorland man , Michael Wharton of Kirkby Thore , whose home lay a few miles from Gloucester 's lordship of Penrith . |
| 2 | At a more modest level , the office of clerk of the works at Middleham was filled by a Westmorland man , Michael Wharton of Kirkby Thore , whose home lay a few miles from Gloucester 's lordship of Penrith . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's just that my mother lives a few miles away from there , in Blindenhall . ’ |
| 4 | Here , a family of three died … last year four people from the same family died a few miles furtehr east . |
| 5 | It seems probable that supplies of wire also came from the long demolished Cambridge wire works a few miles away on the River Cam , close to the old road to Dursley . |