Example sentences of "[art] few miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight . |
| 2 | I piled the kids and what few possessions we had into the pram and , balancing the baby bath on the hood , walked the few miles back to my Pop 's house . |
| 3 | Dropping the kids off at my mother-in-law 's , I trudged the few miles to the hospital taking the short cut through the grounds to the usual ward . |
| 4 | The few miles between bring into view other arresting features of a fantastic skyline which bristles with Munros in the shape of abrupt towers of rock poised above precipitous cliffs and deep corries . |
| 5 | There was some light left as they motored the few miles to The Towers . |
| 6 | On Saturday morning I was in such a hurry that I only said a quick goodbye to my family , before setting out to walk the few miles into town for the London coach . |
| 7 | But Florida has two other prominent international junior training centres — the Rick Macci International Tennis Academy at Grenelefe Resort a few miles from Orlando and Disney World ; and Harry Hopman/Saddlebrook Resort in the town of Wesley Chapel near Tampa . |
| 8 | If Dedham Hall is fully booked — and it may well be — try the best bed-and-breakfast we have ever found , just a few miles away at the Old Vicarage , Higham , near Colchester . |
| 9 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
| 10 | It costs $15 for adults and $7 for children for the excitement of running not a few miles . |
| 11 | For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions . |
| 12 | Seventeenth July — I joined about 20 Commandos from the various units around the village on a trip to a quiet part of the beach a few miles from our front-line positions . |
| 13 | I have a feeling we must be just a few miles from the River Seine . |
| 14 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 15 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |
| 16 | Large wooded areas are rare in Pembrokeshire due to the strong winds and salt spray , but Cwm Gwaun , a few miles east of Fishguard , is one of the notable exceptions to the rule . |
| 17 | But a few miles south-west of these peaks are the Low Tatras . |
| 18 | It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant . |
| 19 | At 3500 miles into the Metro 's life , the Rover dealer had to sort out a badly slipping clutch and , a few miles later , replace the brake pads in a effort to cure the soggy feel of the originals . |
| 20 | Harewood House , a few miles north of Leeds , contains the richest collection of Chippendale furniture in the world |
| 21 | It was a few miles outside the pretty market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire ; two hours from London down the M4 motorway , with easy access to Wales and the West Country ; close to Princess Anne 's house , Gatcombe Park ; his friends , the ParkerBowles ; and not far from Windsor . |
| 22 | A few miles down the road , at the village of Sesfontein , a political rally was under way . |
| 23 | ASHINWARI or Afridi tribesman in Afghanistan grows the poppies and sends them by donkey or truck to his cousin a few miles away in Pakistan for processing . |
| 24 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 25 | Oxford itself , the ‘ city of dreaming spires ’ as John Betjeman eulogised it is only a few miles away with all its many and varied attractions . |
| 26 | Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets . |
| 27 | CAME 'S BEAUTY stems from being built in the palest of pale Portland stone , arguably the finest building stone in Britain , quarried over the down a few miles towards the sea . |
| 28 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 29 | Iraq 's soldiers retreated a few miles from the town ; its policemen were still there masquerading as traffic cops . |
| 30 | The case studies they produce later form part of the curriculum at Crotonville , the company 's management-development school a few miles up on the Hudson river from New York . |