Example sentences of "miles [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Colorado , named ‘ river coloured red ’ by the Spanish , now flows green ; the silts and muds that gave the river its distinctive colour are trapped behind Glen Canyon Dam , fifteen miles upstream from the beginning of the Grand Canyon . |
| 2 | The north-south M6 and east-west M63 motorways are both 5 miles away from the centre of the town . |
| 3 | I 'd stay about five hundred miles away from the border if I was them yes |
| 4 | They were now thirty-odd miles away from the Manchester slums where they had been brought up , a distance that put them beyond the range of mobility of their families , who could not afford to visit them . |
| 5 | ITALIA house can assimilate anything , mixing completely unrelated elements into seamless tracks that are clever , commercial , and miles away from the backroom botch jobs now dominating the UK dance scene . |
| 6 | The new books feature the same detective , Sarah Keane , and are set in a newspaper office ‘ not a million miles away from the Mirror ’ , according to Gordon . |
| 7 | It is that the coin was indeed a perfectly ordinary cause of something , which thing was not a thousand miles away from the bar 's coming out . |
| 8 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 9 | The distraught woman was dumped about five miles away from the reservoir , at Whitburn , west Lothian , and she flagged down a police patrol car from the Lothian and Borders force . |
| 10 | you know it 's not , not , it 's not like Benidorm or anything like that it 's it 's somewhere like , it 's about seven miles away from the sea , but as I said they |
| 11 | You could be miles away from the facility . |
| 12 | The technical college was on the outskirts of town , miles away from the cinema . |
| 13 | colleges these days , but then I realised that he would not be interested in a girl unless she had cantilever overhangs and could be seen five miles away from the top of a bus . |
| 14 | We live in a highly mobile society where the norm is to live in small nuclear family groups , probably many miles away from the rest of the family and maybe having very little physical contact or communication with other members of the ‘ tribe ’ . |
| 15 | Even up here in the wood miles away from the class-room Philip felt his face burn at the way he 'd made a fool of himself . |
| 16 | We 're just a few miles away from the Meadowses ’ place , ’ he added , reaching forward to extract a map from the glove compartment , and tossing it on to her lap . |
| 17 | Nearly 6,000 miles away from the fog and frost of Britain , the southern Californian desert just a few miles from the border of Mexico . |
| 18 | It seems odd , at first sight , that the potteries of Stoke-on-Trent ( q.v. ) should have grown up more than two hundred miles away from the source of their vital ingredient , but in fact the manufacture of stoneware and earthenware had been established in Staffordshire long before the secret of porcelain was found , and that area had the necessary clay , coal and water supplies for the growth of the industry . |
| 19 | The turning point came when , thousands of miles away from the series ’ Melbourne home , the then controller of the BBC 's main channel ripped up his schedules in a bid to beat plunging ratings . |
| 20 | The 75-bed proposal was something like 15 or 16 miles away from the city . |
| 21 | It means Oxford finish in 14th place ; a million miles away from the relegation zone . |
| 22 | Would n't you stay about five mil at least five miles away from the place if you were , if , if you were , if you er , wandering out there |
| 23 | Unfortunately , television studios are strangely designed and dressing-rooms are often miles away from the studio , so we had to find a place where she and her entourage could relax in comfort without the need to climb stairs . |
| 24 | It accelerated more than anticipated with the result that the capsule landed in the Atlantic over a hundred miles away from the target area . |
| 25 | Thus you might well commence a let-down miles away from the NDB , thinking that you had passed overhead . |
| 26 | Eight of the properties Citalia has secured are in an old farmhouse on the estate about two miles away from the castle . |
| 27 | Who would pay a small fortune to come and spend a week in a draughty Highland hotel miles away from the slopes , when they could get a package holiday to somewhere snowy , romantic and convenient in the Alps for half the price ? |
| 28 | He coaxed the Citation through the downwind leg and turned on to final runway heading , some five miles out from the airport . |
| 29 | It lies now beneath the waters of the lake , about ten miles out from the shore . |
| 30 | Spurn is a long thin peninsula , jutting three-and-a-half miles out from the North Humberside mainland . |