Example sentences of "[adv] miles [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Sponsored by Coca-Cola there are substantial awards on offer in the 13 and a half miles race , plus additional prizes for new course records .
2 Start from the layby next to the Dundonnell River which is two and a half miles south of Dundonnell on the A832 .
3 After nearly an hour and a half at sea in gale force winds Falmouth lifeboat , under the command of Second Coxswain Alan Barnes , came up on the yacht , a 40ft steel ketch , which was drifting two and a half miles south west of The Lizard Light .
4 North Belfast 's Neill Carty , the current leader in the Northern Ireland fell running championship , spearheads the six-man senior team over a gruelling seven and a half miles course which peaks at a height of 2,300 feet .
5 North Belfast 's Neill Carty , the current leader in the Northern Ireland fell running championship , spearheads the six-man senior team over a gruelling seven and a half miles course which peaks at a height of 2,300 feet .
6 The village of Tickton in East Yorkshire is situated on the Beverley to Bridlington road about two and a half miles north-east of Beverley and separated from it by the river Hull .
7 It was converted from a nobleman 's residence situated about two and a half miles north-east of San Gimignano on the way to Certaldo , is surrounded by its own gardens and is tastefully appointed in every aspect .
8 Two and a half miles north-west of the town centre by the River Meon is the site of the Funtley Iron Mill , an eighteenth-century forge where Henry Cort , whose house remains nearby , developed in 1784 the ‘ dry puddling ’ process for producing wrought iron on a large scale .
9 Paull is a small village lying beside the river Humber some seven miles from Hull and three and a half miles south-west of Hedon .
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