Example sentences of "the [noun] a few miles " in BNC.
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1 | The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border . |
2 | With painful slowness it carried him to the station a few miles from his home . |
3 | Grado Cathedral , built on an island in the lagoon a few miles further south , is similar in design but the workmanship is not of such a high standard . |
4 | Seventeenth July — I joined about 20 Commandos from the various units around the village on a trip to a quiet part of the beach a few miles from our front-line positions . |
5 | It happened in 1913 at Senghenydd in mid-Glamorgan , a mining village just over the hill and the moorland a few miles from my home . |
6 | Given that the West Highland Way drops into the glen a few miles further down , there 's a possibility of a two-day circular route . |