Example sentences of "a few miles [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These two mills were also on the direct route to Bristol and within a few miles of Fromebridge . |
| 2 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 3 | ‘ A few miles of convent floor to polish , a few million sheets to hem . |
| 4 | It is worth remembering that most accidents happen within a few miles of home . |
| 5 | The fact that it was larger than most local mills and within a few miles of Cirencester probably saved it . |
| 6 | The Sussex campus , with its tastefully harmonized buildings in the modernist-Palladian style , arranged in elegant perspective at the foot of the South Downs a few miles outside Brighton , was much admired by architects , but had a somewhat disorienting effect on the young people who came to study there . |
| 7 | and in October he moved down to Shamley Green , a village a few miles outside Guildford and within commuting distance of London . |
| 8 | A few miles outside Moscow on a ridge of hills sloping steeply down to the river Moskva below is the Church of the Decapitation of S. John the Baptist at Dyakovo ( 245 ) , which is only about a mile away across the trees and woods from the unusual Church of the Ascension at Kolomenskoe ( Chapter 5 , Fig. 560 ) . |
| 9 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 10 | This charming house is prettily and conveniently set in a rural position , just a few miles outside Chester . |
| 11 | Nick took her to a small restaurant a few miles outside Cambridge , where they both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened . |
| 12 | Mr Deng 's dash for rural freedom began in villages like one a few miles outside Chengdu , Sichuan 's capital . |
| 13 | ‘ It is only a few miles outside Tbilisi . |
| 14 | My first efforts to find Roztoky , which is only a few miles outside Prague , were a horror story of wrong turnings , lengthy detours and rush-hour traffic . |
| 15 | Dave 's house was a surprise ; a very comfortable modern bungalow with all mod cons , a few miles outside Kirkwall , with all the fishing and shooting he could wish for right on his doorstep . |
| 16 | Dragging with them seventeen unwieldy brass cannon from Edinburgh castle , they took Norham castle on the south bank of the Tweed , and pressed on a few miles to Flodden in Northumberland . |
| 17 | One was seen a few miles off Newhaven on 21 September 1936 ; one flew east off Langney Point on 15 October 1948 ; One flew east off Langney Point on 19 November 1950 . |
| 18 | As she turned on to the dual carriageway that ended only a few miles beyond Naas , the rain spat against the windscreen . |
| 19 | For this purpose I choose the country depicted on Sheet 145 of the Ordnance Survey ( sixth edition ) , which runs from the edge of Oxford northwards to a few miles beyond Banbury , and from Chipping Norton on the west to beyond Brackley in Northamptonshire on the east . |
| 20 | ‘ Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey ’ is a poem in Wordsworth 's loftiest philosophical manner , and a triumphant affirmation of God 's creative and restorative power at work in nature . |
| 21 | A brief excursion in July 1798 provided Wordsworth with an opportunity to summarize these new ideas in Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey , on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour , July 13th 1798 . |
| 22 | I was n't quite so happy after that ; however , we landed safely on a tea estate in Assam , and then were packed into lorries and driven a few miles into Dibrugarh . |
| 23 | Most of the mileage was on tarmac roads with a few miles cross country and admittedly , I did not have to use low ratio at any time . |
| 24 | From the Garrimpos Just a few miles down stream , the silvery waters of the Cristolino flow into the Tellisperos river , and vanish , stained by it 's burden of silt . |
| 25 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Athelstan persisted , ‘ it 's not far — a few miles through Aldgate and down the Mile End Road . |
| 26 | Cerveteri is built near the extensive necropolis which served the Etruscan city of Caere , one of their largest towns , near the sea and only a few miles from Rome . |
| 27 | Fortunately , in 1749 , it was recorded in the form Abotsbery Land and was shown subsequently to belong to the poor lands charity of Abbotsbury , a few miles from Weymouth in Dorset . |
| 28 | Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra . |
| 29 | Skipper Mike Harris managed to locate feeding fish on the shallow reefs just a few miles from shore where John Smith , Bryce Smith and Jamie Smith from Meols , and Liverpool tackle dealer Alan Sharpe , included 50 tasty black bream in their haul . |
| 30 | And , Germany suffered a massive blow to its pride when the Hindenburg crashed in a ball of flames just a few miles from Nicholson 's home town , Neptune , New Jersey soon after he was born . |