Example sentences of "only [art] [det] miles from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Poat left on his mission and Stirling split the remaining force into two groups which would travel independently to a further rendezvous at Bir Soltane , only a few miles from the Mareth line . |
| 2 | It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house . |
| 3 | We were only a few miles from the coast , but in the days before we had our own car , visits to the sea were exciting expeditions . |
| 4 | Green 's memorial tablet is in the church of St Mary the Virgin at Monken Hadley , only a few miles from the College 's Hawkshead campus . |
| 5 | These stories occur world wide , so I will limit myself to two which are told of sites on the Yorkshire Wolds only a few miles from where I live . |
| 6 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 7 | In 1989 , living in a motel between Santa Cruz and Watsonville only a few miles from the epicentre of the Loma Prieta earthquake , I had walked with Frank Bardacke in its aftermath down the streets of Watsonville and counted score and score of the old Maybeck homes , tossed off their piers , broken-backed , red-tagged , finished . |
| 8 | As a direct consequence of that success , we believe that the inaugural World Sevens , taking place only a few miles from the company headquarters in Perth and with its strong Scottish flavour through its base at Murrayfield , ideally suited for The Famous Grouse . |
| 9 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
| 10 | The new location could be only a few miles from the present site — especially if one of the company 's priorities is to retain existing staff . |
| 11 | Only a few miles from the coincidentally placed Goonhilly , a memorial commemorates the site of Guglielmo Marconi 's first transmitted wireless signals to County Cork in April 1901 , heralding the start of modern communication . |
| 12 | The village of Artagnan , indeed , lies only a few miles from Montaner , to the north-east ; and it was one of the seventeenth-century counts of this Artagnan whom Alex Andre pumas , once again , took and elevated into his fictional hero . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | With four more rounds to go King can not be caught but he was still disappointed when he spoke afterwards about a race during which victory was snatched from his grasp only a few miles from the finish . |
| 15 | all the way , you look one way as far as you can see and you , when you go to Gibraltar you 're only a few miles from Africa |