Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] a few miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rocky and sandy sea coasts , rarely on freshwater lakes a few miles inland . |
| 2 | Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets . |
| 3 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 4 | He played for Middlesex in the 1950s , but in the heyday of Compton and Edrich he was forging an international reputation a few miles away from Lords , at Wembley . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They had caught two men breaking into an antique shop a few miles away from Wellingham , a former private house at the side of the road . |
| 7 | He was on patrol with two other UN military observers when the mine exploded as they were driving around a small bridge a few miles north of the temples in Siem Reap province . |
| 8 | Nick took her to a small restaurant a few miles outside Cambridge , where they both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened . |
| 9 | She was brought up in Cramer , a coastal village a few miles from Dunstanburgh . |
| 10 | The case studies they produce later form part of the curriculum at Crotonville , the company 's management-development school a few miles up on the Hudson river from New York . |