Example sentences of "only a few miles [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Do you know that your characters are alive today , only a few miles down the road in Geneva ? |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ It is only a few miles outside Tbilisi . |
4 | It was while filming at this den that I heard of yet another place , only a few miles up the Wye , where mink had been seen killing mallard chicks . |
5 | At Gabes , the coastal plain narrows down to only a few miles between the sea and a large area of salt marshes . |
6 | The landscape in this area of south-east Cambridgeshire and north-east Hertfordshire is certainly very different from that in Fig 7 only a few miles to the south-east ; until the nineteenth century it was a land of open fields . |
7 | As she turned on to the dual carriageway that ended only a few miles beyond Naas , the rain spat against the windscreen . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 |
23 | ‘ Only a few miles in it . ’ |