Example sentences of "a few miles [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , movement into the village was predominantly of people born within a few miles of its borders . |
| 2 | A few years earlier Aung San might possibly have taken to the jungle , bandit or resistance fighter according to one 's viewpoint , known only within a few miles of his own home . |
| 3 | His work was paralleled by that of William Greenwell [ q.v. ] , but whereas Greenwell extended his researches over all the northern English counties and Gloucestershire , Mortimer confined his activities to the region within a few miles of his base at Driffield . |
| 4 | Bob , Bob , for a bit and he done a few miles on it and then he sold it to somebody else in the garage . |
| 5 | After driving a few miles along what seemed an endless avenue of poplars we crossed the Taro , at this time of year a dry riverbed , by a long bridge with marble statues of reclining river gods and goddesses at either end . |
| 6 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 7 | For instance , through most of history , and in most parts of the world ( though not , as it happens , in our modern world ) , individual humans have seldom strayed more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With painful slowness it carried him to the station a few miles from his home . |
| 10 | As we loaded the dishwasher and admired Blanc 's new Miele kitchen , Raymond re-entered — beaming — to confirm the secret wedding in the village of Wheatley , just a few miles from his world-famous restaurant and hotel , Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons , Great Milton , Oxford . |
| 11 | He 's now considering tackling the Southern Upland Way , starting in Galloway in the West and walking through the Borders to Cockburnspath , just a few miles from his home in Innerwick . |
| 12 | It was found a few miles from his car on the seashore near Great Yarmouth . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Only a few miles in it . ’ |
| 15 | A few miles behind him followed his back-up plane . |