Example sentences of "[adv] a few miles [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant . |
3 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The National Exhibition Centre and Birmingham International Airport are only a few miles away whilst the new International Convention Centre is only a short walk away . |
6 | Poised as it is , midway between the University cities , and on the main line to London , with the M.1. only a few miles away , Wolverton seems like something out of Fanny by Gaslight . |
7 | 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 ? |
8 | France has gone , and Belgium and Holland , and the German army is only a few miles away across the Channel . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | There were no preparations at Thornfield , and no visits to the Ingram family , who lived only a few miles away . |
11 | There has been no chromosome work in Shetland ( nor investigations of the " teeth " ) , but the shell-shape data strongly suggest a meeting of two factions-in some places the enclaves show the full " normal " range of variation : in others , only a few miles away , they do not . |
12 | It 's only a few miles away . ’ |
13 | Only a few miles away other actors in the macabre drama surrounding Lady Eleanor 's death were taking up new roles and stances . |
14 | The Mississippi opens onto the Gulf only a few miles away . |
15 | However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Stephen is a boy of mixed Jamaican and St Vincentian parentage , born and raised only a few miles away from the white girl who provided the first narrative . |
18 | Five months earlier , on a bridge only a few miles away , Julie Dart 's killer had also left a stencilled message and used the phrase ‘ 2 mins allowed ’ and also a reference to a detector at the drop-off point . |
19 | Just a I think you should give us that , it 's only a few miles away ! |
20 | Give us that Stu , it 's only a few miles away . |
21 | The Mediterranean climatic zone , and the mode of life associated with it , is restricted to a thin fringe extending only a few miles inland . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | It might sound ridiculous to suggest that the sun could shrink to being only a few miles across . |
24 | Only a few miles upstream was the Dal Cataract . |
25 | But only a few miles farther on , the convoy was halted again . |
26 | Only a few miles out of London there are green fields and woods , due to strong observation of greenbelt principles by the Government and councils . |
27 | It contains unrivalled 18th century English furniture made especially for Harewood by Thomas Chippendale , born only a few miles further up the Wharfe Valley at Otley . |
28 | It 's only a few miles further along the road . ’ |
29 | If Dedham Hall is fully booked — and it may well be — try the best bed-and-breakfast we have ever found , just a few miles away at the Old Vicarage , Higham , near Colchester . |
30 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |