Example sentences of "a [det] miles [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The travelling chaos of a modern party leader 's election entourage had carried Major within a few miles of the home of the founder of the profession , a few of whose more troublesome contemporary practitioners are said to have caused him much irritation over the 16 months of his premiership . |
| 2 | They set off quite cheerily , but when they were within a few miles of the tarmac coast road , the truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch . |
| 3 | At dawn they were well hidden in a cave and the following night they were able to march to within a few miles of the beach where they were to be picked up . |
| 4 | Easily Accessible : There is a large number of footpaths and bridleways in the area , and two long-distance paths , the Oxford Way and the Cotswold Way , pass within a few miles of the hotel . |
| 5 | Police here are publicising facilities within a few miles of the road . |
| 6 | At Walkerburn , a few miles along the river from Peebles , a mill shop and wool museum display all the processes of shearing , cleaning , spinning , carding , dyeing and weaving . |
| 7 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 8 | It was a few miles outside the pretty market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire ; two hours from London down the M4 motorway , with easy access to Wales and the West Country ; close to Princess Anne 's house , Gatcombe Park ; his friends , the ParkerBowles ; and not far from Windsor . |
| 9 | On a dark and icy cold morning in January 1946 I flew in an RAF plane from Berlin to Kiel and then drove in a jeep to a British Army Church House a few miles outside the city . |
| 10 | Now , of course , there 's also Euro Disney , a few miles outside the city at Marnela-Vallée . |
| 11 | He camped a few miles outside the town and there remained , determined to outface Ras Tafari , whom he discounted as astute but weak . |
| 12 | She holds clinics in the areas in and around Cape Town — the shanty towns begin a few miles outside the city and the houses improve markedly the nearer the centre you get — and Rose believes that the fruits of her success will start to become evident in two or three years . |
| 13 | A few miles to the east of Cirencester is the pretty village of Ampney Crucis , the Ampney Brook flowing through its centre . |
| 14 | A few miles to the south east of New Mills , east of Hillesley , stands the lovely little mill at Kilcott . |
| 15 | Hermitage with its tiny church dozes beneath High Stoy from where Grace Melbury watched her erring husband ride away on one of his visits to Mrs Charmond , and , a few miles to the west , Melbury Bubb is tucked beneath Bubb Down Hill , seemingly oblivious to the outside world . |
| 16 | A refinery was built for the industry at Pumpherston , a few miles to the east , and opened in 1884 . |
| 17 | 1849 the women were moved to the manor house at Dalston , a few miles to the north , but the institution 's functions were subsumed in those of other bodies . |
| 18 | During the previous day a major naval battle had ensued a few miles to the east , and had continued into the night — the ‘ Battle of Matapan ’ ; a resounding defeat for the Italian Fleet . |
| 19 | Across the marches , a few miles to the north-east of Willoughby is Markby . |
| 20 | Ovedale , another esquire of the body , was from Wickham , a few miles to the east , while Kelsale , a yeoman usher , was customer of Southampton . |
| 21 | A few miles to the south-west of Beverley the Scots raised their standard on the beacon at Hunsley , which marks almost the southern end of the Wolds and looks out across the Humber to Lincolnshire and across the Vale of York towards Selby and Doncaster . |
| 22 | But if it is military evidences that you are pursuing , then I would leave Tarbes and go instead to the splendid castle of Montaner , a few miles to the north-west — not quite Pyrenean I will admit , but near enough and certainly good enough to be brought in here . |
| 23 | The landscape in this area of south-east Cambridgeshire and north-east Hertfordshire is certainly very different from that in Fig 7 only a few miles to the south-east ; until the nineteenth century it was a land of open fields . |
| 24 | The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert . |
| 25 | He remembered staring out from the nest site on a clear cold morning and seeing a line of grey-blue a few miles to the north which they said was the sea . |
| 26 | On the fourth day we moved our camp a few miles to the east , where our trackers maintained we should find the nyala more numerous ; this proved to be the case . |
| 27 | Ovedale , another esquire of the body , was from Wickham , a few miles to the east , while Kelsale , a yeoman usher , was customer of Southampton . |
| 28 | CAME 'S BEAUTY stems from being built in the palest of pale Portland stone , arguably the finest building stone in Britain , quarried over the down a few miles towards the sea . |
| 29 | Miss Clinton had taken it away with the wheel still loose and would soon be driving northward over a narrow moorland road that a few miles beyond the road-bridge over the river wound along the shelf of a mountain with a sheer , dizzy drop on one side . |
| 30 | It was while filming at this den that I heard of yet another place , only a few miles up the Wye , where mink had been seen killing mallard chicks . |