Example sentences of "a few [adj] miles [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See you can allow a few extra miles for getting |
| 2 | Clare works for an estate agent so far up-market it 's mostly estates they deal in , not humble houses , no matter how extensive ; if it does n't boast a couple of salmon rivers , a few square miles of trees and a brace of hills , lochs or lakes , then they just are n't interested . |
| 3 | ‘ This area , Miss Williams , might encompass a few square miles of countryside , but it will also take in what is now a very unsightly rubbish tip . |
| 4 | It was said , in effect , that the extent of , say , carbonate deposits over a few square miles in the Bahamas at the present day is something quite different from the persistence of carbonates in early Carboniferous times over much of the northern hemisphere . |
| 5 | It all starts with a few slow miles in the suburbs , then out into the Suffolk countryside , with a long trail of runner snaking their way along narrow country lanes . |