Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [art] few mile " in BNC.

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1 For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions .
2 The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert .
3 Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra .
4 Subsequent to the date of the surrender , according to local farmers , many Croats were machine gunned in a small valley near Poljana a few miles across the border from Bleiburg inside Yugoslavia .
5 The Jungle Giants nursery is at Wigmore a few miles from the show garden .
6 At the Sedgwick memorial , the main street continues ahead and a branch turns right , these rejoining at Cowgill a few miles further on ; this branch road will be described on the return journey .
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