Example sentences of "than half a [noun sg] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very late though it is , there is a formica-clad coffee or hamburger bar still open less than half a mile away and I have enough cash in hand to buy my first food of the day and my first hot drink . |
| 2 | Within a matter of days some were caught more than half a mile away . |
| 3 | The car that forced Chrissie Stone off the road was dumped outside the Underground station , less than half a mile away from the crash . ’ |
| 4 | To us , the glacier now appeared to lie more than half a mile away from the river , but scrambling across the black gravel of the terminal moraine , we were surprised to find that this rubble concealed the true icy snout . |
| 5 | A little more than half a mile away , on the other side of the Isle of Dogs , Ebenezer 's sister Ruth was also awake . |
| 6 | Yet the contrast that presented itself to me as Edward Thomas described it was dramatic : down in the valley less than half a mile away was a modern colliery with all the latest gadgetry of modern technology , while the hill farmers ( at least some of them ) were still in the Middle Ages — even earlier , as far as their material culture was concerned . |
| 7 | Con Fenton 's cottage was less than half a mile away and on my way back to the surgery , on an impulse I pulled up at the door . |
| 8 | Slowly , for she could still hear them less than half a mile away , she walked forward into the thick of it . |
| 9 | A member of the Royal Family and twenty thousand people were assembled less than half a mile away down wind . |
| 10 | If it 's half less than half a mile away then it 's it 's fine but if not it starts to becoming problematical . |
| 11 | Some who had tried to steal food from farms behind the Serb lines less than half a mile away had been shot dead . |