Example sentences of "just a [det] mile [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dedham Hall is fully booked — and it may well be — try the best bed-and-breakfast we have ever found , just a few miles away at the Old Vicarage , Higham , near Colchester . |
| 2 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |
| 3 | They fear that increasing raids from bordering Mozambique just a few miles away , together with the lack of any local security , has turned the area into a no-go zone . |
| 4 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 5 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 6 | I had imagined , for instance , that I would be able to catch a glimpse of Mount Silisili , a mile-high peak in the centre of Samoa , just a few miles away across the water : I had hoped to do so for no better reason than that Mount Silisili would be enjoying precisely the same clock time as here in Tonga , but exactly one day before . |
| 7 | A handful of houses , a trout farm and the watermill are all that remain today in this tranquil backwater nestling at the foot of the wolds , just a few miles away from Alford . |
| 8 | Two years later , in 1318 , the Scots captured Berwick after twenty years in English possession and then advanced southwards almost to Pontefract : while burgesses of Ripon escaped the sacking of their town by payment of a thousand marks , just a few miles away the monks of Fountains abbey were similarly purchasing mercy from the invaders . |
| 9 | Its proximity to Austria , just a few miles away , and to Lindau , the old German city on the opposite shore reached in a short journey by direct lake steamer , has cast its influence and given it a faintly cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 10 | We 're just a few miles away from the Meadowses ’ place , ’ he added , reaching forward to extract a map from the glove compartment , and tossing it on to her lap . |
| 11 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
| 12 | I practise in Wakefield — just a few miles away . ’ |
| 13 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
| 14 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood , had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
| 15 | But just a few miles away from where Jilly Cooper lives is a REAL hamlet called Paradise , and villagers there are worried that readers might think the book is based on them . |
| 16 | To see examples of life thousands of years ago unearthed by archaeologists just a few miles away . |
| 17 | To see examples of life thousands of years ago unearthed by archaeologists just a few miles away . |
| 18 | But just a few miles away at the Bennett House School it 's a different story . |
| 19 | Just a few miles away at the Camas camp 1100 refugees with a different story to tell are also preparing for winter . |
| 20 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 21 | Ironically , the first three months of 1992 were the wettest in the this part of the country for many years , so that even the flowers in the desert , just a few miles inland , burst into bloom . |
| 22 | 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 . |