Example sentences of "perhaps a mile " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moat Hall lay in a fold of the hills perhaps a mile from the A1 . |
| 2 | They had been perhaps a mile and a half off the river mouth when the hurricane hit . |
| 3 | Somewhere , perhaps a mile away down the Beirut front line , shells were bursting in a long , low rumble that ever so slightly changed the air pressure in rue Trablos . |
| 4 | I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had |
| 5 | When at last we emerged into the open we found ourselves on a plain , perhaps a mile wide , lying between the hills and the river . |