Example sentences of "[adv] a few miles out " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It was good advice , as she discovered just a few miles out of town when , as he 'd predicted , she found herself in a very different environment .
3 Turner from St Michael 's Mission to the Blind , who had been attacked by dacoits a few days earlier and left for dead a few miles out of Shwebo .
4 They found out from the crew that the ship had been boarded the night before a few miles out from GdaƄsk by a Russian naval vessel and that a Polish passenger had been arrested and taken off .
5 But the convoy got stuck again a few miles out of Rogatica , where it had been blocked , by fallen timber thrown on the road , according to Commander Barry Frewer of the United Nations Protection Force ( Unprofor ) in Sarajevo .
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