Example sentences of "few miles [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequent to the date of the surrender , according to local farmers , many Croats were machine gunned in a small valley near Poljana a few miles across the border from Bleiburg inside Yugoslavia . |
| 2 | A few miles down the road , at the village of Sesfontein , a political rally was under way . |
| 3 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 4 | Ski enthusiasts will want to visit the nearby village of Kaprun , just a few miles down the road ; where you can try summer skiing on the Kitzsteinhorn glacier . |
| 5 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you know that your characters are alive today , only a few miles down the road in Geneva ? |
| 7 | New York is n't exactly just a few miles down the road . ’ |
| 8 | A few miles down the road is Jackdaws Castle … a new yard with an old hand in charge … david Nicholson. , . |
| 9 | Having grown up a northerner , I make no apologies for saying that I do not regard myself as a southerner who happens to live a few miles up the road . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At Gabes , the coastal plain narrows down to only a few miles between the sea and a large area of salt marshes . |
| 13 | PLANS to turn the site of a former explosives factory at Annan , Dumfriesshire , into Scotland 's top rallying centre were put forward yesterday by the 300-strong Wigton Motor Club which is based a few miles over the Border in Cumbria . |
| 14 | The next few miles following the shoreline seem tame after the excitement of An Teallach and most interest is centred on the expanding views seawards , the only intimate feature of note being a very pretty wayside waterfall . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Now , of course , there 's also Euro Disney , a few miles outside the city at Marnela-Vallée . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He camped a few miles outside the town and there remained , determined to outface Ras Tafari , whom he discounted as astute but weak . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Police here are publicising facilities within a few miles of the road . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Thus it is that the Tamar , beautiful as the nymph whose name she bears , winds her way from the rugged north coast between the hills , to be joined by the Tavy , flowing from Dartmoor to join her for the last few miles to the sea , while the luckless Torridge flows ever northward in vain pursuit of Tamara 's beauty . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert . |