Example sentences of "of mile [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Is it strange going thousands of miles away to Australia and finding out that you 're as known there as you are on this island ?
2 Thousands of miles away at Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine U.S.A. , is 144 the first Standard to be preserved .
3 Production can not be ‘ just-in-time ’ when parts are imported from thousands of miles away in Japan .
4 A nurse has said she was accosted by a man soon after the killing on the M-fifty , while the man jailed for the murder was hundreds of miles away in Scotland .
5 Everything he draws , she sees as it unfolds thousands of miles away in Hampstead .
6 By Thursday Bobby and Barbara are getting used to cycling to school and work a couple of miles away in Bicester .
7 As to ‘ our bridge ’ ( which is never mentioned again ) , the reader can if he likes reflect that Kirillov is an odd fish and will no doubt prove himself persona non grata in ‘ our town ’ , or that the local bureaucrats are an officious and/or corrupt lot , or that the central authority thousands of miles away in Petersburg enjoys throwing its weight about .
8 At that moment , hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire , Colin was seeing the secret garden for the first time , and saying , ‘ I 'm going to live for ever and ever and ever ! ’
9 With mum Carol 's heritage it could never have been any other way — her roots , after all , lay thousands of miles away in Wales , the Land of Song .
10 The cover of this report illustrates the chain of economic linkages which begins with distilleries in the Highlands and Islands , and ends many thousands of miles away in export markets around the globe .
11 For you sit here , thousands of miles away from Palestine , a land which most of you will never see , and yet which you will certainly pay for-with your money , yes , and some of you with your blood and sweat — you sit here and you listen to me as I tell you about this impossible , this ridiculous dream , and it does n't occur to you that we are all mad , you and I and all our people ? ’
12 I have not got enough land for the horses ' longer holidays , but with friendly farmers around I am able to rent two big ‘ safe ’ fields which are a couple of miles away from home .
13 A COUPLE of miles away from Westminster , the Gulf war is being debated with even greater passion than in the Commons itself .
14 But the Kylie story really starts thousand of miles away from Bethlehem Hospital , way down in the Welsh valleys …
15 For Hester , the problem was compounded by the fact that she was thousands of miles away from Thomas .
16 The last two points highlight the fact that economic problems and policies of major countries , e.g. , USA , Japan and West Germany , can influence the livelihoods of nations and people many thousands of miles away from policy-making centres .
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