Example sentences of "a [noun] a few miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | and in October he moved down to Shamley Green , a village a few miles outside Guildford and within commuting distance of London . |
| 2 | The latest 280sq miles of fields stretch from the Red Wharf Bay area of Anglesey to a point a few miles from Crosby . |
| 3 | Tabor , named from a hill a few miles from Bethlehem , was founded in 1420 by the Taborites , the radical wing of the Hussite movement . |
| 4 | We may complain about it many times , but think of its wonderful facility of allowing us to phone that relative in the United States , or a friend a few miles away , or the butcher , or our business , and so on . |
| 5 | I was passed out after a night drinking rice wine and native beer with my band of happy , brother war correspondents in the bar of a hotel a few miles from the front . |
| 6 | Their first project , the design of a wetland to treat household sewage from a hotel a few miles from Drumnadrochit and Loch Ness , exemplifies this belief . |
| 7 | The law of nuisance , therefore , affords little or no protection either to a complainant who is unduly sensitive to an odour emission , or where the use interfered with is a sensitive one , as when the taste of biscuits manufactured under controlled conditions , was adversely affected by odorous fumes from a source a few miles away . |