Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] a few miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were only a few miles from the coast , but in the days before we had our own car , visits to the sea were exciting expeditions . |
| 2 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |
| 3 | It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant . |
| 4 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 5 | It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house . |
| 6 | Although I was only a few miles away over the river , I missed the London I was getting to know and played games with myself like : if the secret police ordered you to live in the suburbs for the rest of your life , what would you do ? |
| 7 | One of my father 's laboratories was only a few miles distant . |
| 8 | However , if the sun were to shrink until it was only a few miles across , the bending would be so great that light leaving the sun would not get away but would be dragged back by the sun 's gravitational field . |
| 9 | You can imagine the eager anticipation I felt when following the death of our much loved 16 year old dog , I saw an advertisement quoting ‘ Basset Hounds For Sale ’ and the contact , which could have been anywhere in the UK , was only a few miles away . |
| 10 | When the Lockington railway disaster happened that was just a few miles from here . |