Example sentences of "[is] [adv] a few miles " in BNC.
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1 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
2 | It 's only a few miles away . ’ |
3 | It 's only a few miles further along the road . ’ |
4 | Just a I think you should give us that , it 's only a few miles away ! |
5 | Give us that Stu , it 's only a few miles away . |
6 | Whereas really it 's only a few miles as the crow flies as it were . |
7 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
8 | Oxford itself , the ‘ city of dreaming spires ’ as John Betjeman eulogised it is only a few miles away with all its many and varied attractions . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ It is only a few miles outside Tbilisi . |
11 | France has gone , and Belgium and Holland , and the German army is only a few miles away across the Channel . |
12 | Coed Glas is only a few miles away from Ty Mawr , the controversial children 's home which is to be closed shortly after a major inquiry . |
13 | The full extent of this system is yet to be established , but the gouffre Pierre-Saint-Martin is only a few miles as the Pyrenean crow flies from the Gorges de Kakouetta and forms part of the one vast hydrological network . |