Example sentences of "was only [art] [det] miles " in BNC.

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1 It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant .
2 He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles .
3 It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house .
4 Although I was only a few miles away over the river , I missed the London I was getting to know and played games with myself like : if the secret police ordered you to live in the suburbs for the rest of your life , what would you do ?
5 One of my father 's laboratories was only a few miles distant .
6 However , if the sun were to shrink until it was only a few miles across , the bending would be so great that light leaving the sun would not get away but would be dragged back by the sun 's gravitational field .
7 You can imagine the eager anticipation I felt when following the death of our much loved 16 year old dog , I saw an advertisement quoting ‘ Basset Hounds For Sale ’ and the contact , which could have been anywhere in the UK , was only a few miles away .
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