Example sentences of "[art] [adj] miles [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mark Farmer who 's already recorded the fastest lap of just over a 120 miles an hour is teaming up with Robert Dunlop … they ride over six laps …
2 Then after a few miles the engine stopped again .
3 In a few miles the traveller passes from the summer droughts and deserts of Africa to the climate of northern Europe .
4 Home was a little nearer , and with every few miles the countryside grew a little uglier .
5 You might try driving a car at a brick wall at a 100 miles an hour on the off chance of coming to no harm at all , but please make sure you have renewed your NI subscription first .
6 ‘ My mother was a very careful owner and only did about a thousand miles a year between the end of the war and 1962 .
7 The car has a top speed of a 152 miles an hour plus all the features the golf-clubbing , jet-setting buyer would want .
8 That day , we were on Flupper doing about a million miles an hour .
9 But the early morning milkround means he can cover over a hundred miles a week in training … which makes the actual competition more bearable .
10 Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction .
11 Winds of a hundred miles an hour or more roared and whistled round the isolated house on the cliffs , tearing at window catches , rattling doors .
12 ‘ Coming at you at a hundred miles an hour , all the way from the beautiful UK , 4AD recording artistes , LUSH ! ’
13 So shall we change it make it a hundred miles an hour .
14 Okay he 's doing a hundred miles an hour .
15 Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ?
16 Still hurrying along at a hundred miles an hour he leaned over towards me and lowered his voice .
17 Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth .
18 He has been the national drivers ' champion , the first national driver to exceed a hundred miles an hour with a five hundred C C hydroplane on Lake Windermere , won the B class championships seven times , the C class champion six times , the D class three times and the F class once .
19 So doing a hundred miles an hour .
20 The jewellery tycoon Gerald Ratner has been banned from driving for three weeks for doing more than a hundred miles an hour on the motorway .
21 A driver who towed another car at a hundred miles an hour on a motorway has admitted reckless driving .
22 Chuckball is a mixture of basketball and handball … invented in Switzerland its now taking a hold in this country … its a non contact sport but is played at a hundred miles an hour … and top dogs are Cheltenham 's Junior Team … they 've just won the European Championship … a big deal …
23 Police believe the two cars collided at a closing speed approaching a hundred miles an hour .
24 A motorcyclist died when he hit a wall after being chased by police at more than a hundred miles an hour .
25 It was struck by a crowded express train from Paddington travelling at a hundred miles an hour along the Great Western line near Swindon .
26 speeding is dangerous for teh fact that it 's a very confined area … even at fifty miles an hour … that 's a conbined impact speed of a hundred miles an hour … we 're also thinking of the workmen , who are sometimes working where there 's no central barrier
27 He says the course is really tight and they reach speeds of over a hundred miles an hour .
28 Britains richest man … was fined a hundred and twenty pounds for speeding at a hundred miles an hour along the M5 .
29 The engines said to Truro , he was first to go a hundred miles an hour .
30 Oh it did n't look like it was making a hundred miles an hour anyway
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