Example sentences of "a [adj] miles of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A few miles of convent floor to polish , a few million sheets to hem . |
| 2 | It is worth remembering that most accidents happen within a few miles of home . |
| 3 | They 'll produce design drawings and thirty percent estimates er one and a half miles of train line . |
| 4 | ‘ He 'll manage twenty-five miles or so by nightfall , and that will bring him to the stream over there called the Carron , with a dozen miles of forest and boggy ground between himself and the main river-crossing . |
| 5 | And a hundred miles of torture . |