Example sentences of "[adv] a few miles from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Poat left on his mission and Stirling split the remaining force into two groups which would travel independently to a further rendezvous at Bir Soltane , only a few miles from the Mareth line . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Green 's memorial tablet is in the church of St Mary the Virgin at Monken Hadley , only a few miles from the College 's Hawkshead campus . |
| 5 | These stories occur world wide , so I will limit myself to two which are told of sites on the Yorkshire Wolds only a few miles from where I live . |
| 6 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 7 | In 1989 , living in a motel between Santa Cruz and Watsonville only a few miles from the epicentre of the Loma Prieta earthquake , I had walked with Frank Bardacke in its aftermath down the streets of Watsonville and counted score and score of the old Maybeck homes , tossed off their piers , broken-backed , red-tagged , finished . |
| 8 | As a direct consequence of that success , we believe that the inaugural World Sevens , taking place only a few miles from the company headquarters in Perth and with its strong Scottish flavour through its base at Murrayfield , ideally suited for The Famous Grouse . |
| 9 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
| 10 | The new location could be only a few miles from the present site — especially if one of the company 's priorities is to retain existing staff . |
| 11 | Only a few miles from the coincidentally placed Goonhilly , a memorial commemorates the site of Guglielmo Marconi 's first transmitted wireless signals to County Cork in April 1901 , heralding the start of modern communication . |
| 12 | The village of Artagnan , indeed , lies only a few miles from Montaner , to the north-east ; and it was one of the seventeenth-century counts of this Artagnan whom Alex Andre pumas , once again , took and elevated into his fictional hero . |
| 13 | Cerveteri is built near the extensive necropolis which served the Etruscan city of Caere , one of their largest towns , near the sea and only a few miles from Rome . |
| 14 | With four more rounds to go King can not be caught but he was still disappointed when he spoke afterwards about a race during which victory was snatched from his grasp only a few miles from the finish . |
| 15 | all the way , you look one way as far as you can see and you , when you go to Gibraltar you 're only a few miles from Africa |
| 16 | I have a feeling we must be just a few miles from the River Seine . |
| 17 | Bisham 's medieval Abbey stands alongside the river Thames , just a few miles from Marlow . |
| 18 | And , Germany suffered a massive blow to its pride when the Hindenburg crashed in a ball of flames just a few miles from Nicholson 's home town , Neptune , New Jersey soon after he was born . |
| 19 | And it gives me great pleasure to personally invite you and your guest , to spend a luxurious weekend on the Craigendarroch Country Estate , just a few miles from Balmoral in the heart of Royal Deeside . |
| 20 | The sitters are evidently at their ease , and in the background we see a representation of the Dutch House at Kew , a favourite place just a few miles from London where they could escape from the formalities of public life . |
| 21 | As we loaded the dishwasher and admired Blanc 's new Miele kitchen , Raymond re-entered — beaming — to confirm the secret wedding in the village of Wheatley , just a few miles from his world-famous restaurant and hotel , Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons , Great Milton , Oxford . |
| 22 | He 's now considering tackling the Southern Upland Way , starting in Galloway in the West and walking through the Borders to Cockburnspath , just a few miles from his home in Innerwick . |
| 23 | Nearly 6,000 miles away from the fog and frost of Britain , the southern Californian desert just a few miles from the border of Mexico . |
| 24 | This is the countryside that villagers in three hamlets just a few miles from Milton Keynes fear will be eaten up by concrete . |
| 25 | Trooper Consiglio was killed in a firefight as the patrol retreated towards Syria , before Corporal Lane also developed hypothermia … he died just a few miles from the border . |
| 26 | His shop , just a few miles from the border , was firebombed in 1973 and rebuilt . |
| 27 | Skipper Mike Harris managed to locate feeding fish on the shallow reefs just a few miles from shore where John Smith , Bryce Smith and Jamie Smith from Meols , and Liverpool tackle dealer Alan Sharpe , included 50 tasty black bream in their haul . |
| 28 | Now an engineering student at Szeged University , he is one of dozens of deserters and draft dodgers from the JNA who must endure a life of exile in this pretty town , just a few miles from the Serbian border . |
| 29 | When the Lockington railway disaster happened that was just a few miles from here . |