Example sentences of "[det] a mile " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Hotel Orion was only half a mile away . |
| 32 | And when morning came I found I was n't half a mile from where I 'd started . |
| 33 | It took half a mile to come to a halt after the crash and the driver was treated for shock . |
| 34 | EIGHT Yorkshire miners , trapped for 15 hours behind thousands of tons of rock , coal and twisted steel half a mile underground , are expected back at work today after what British Coal described as ‘ a stunningly successful ’ rescue operation . |
| 35 | THE LEADER of the eight miners trapped for 15 hours half a mile underground told yesterday of their joy at seeing the first rescuer . |
| 36 | It was given to delay the police operation to find the bomb and officers were half a mile away looking for the bomb at the Stock Exchange . ’ |
| 37 | Mr Neil Lancaster , who was drinking in the Swan Wine Bar in Leadenhall Market , half a mile from the scene of the explosion , said glass lampshades were thrown from the ceiling on to the floor . |
| 38 | Our easily found gite at Trans-en-Provence was about half a mile from this road . |
| 39 | The molten rock is within half a mile of the gates of Zafferana Etnea , a town of 7,000 people . |
| 40 | Several hours later he drove her half a mile to a car park in Whitehorse Lane , South Norwood , near Sainsbury 's supermarket , and forced her to take some money from a cash point machine . |
| 41 | Then he swam half a mile to shore against a strong current . |
| 42 | The explosion was heard half a mile away . |
| 43 | The resort centre is about half a mile away and it 's only a 5 minute walk to the sandy beach . |
| 44 | Within Cosmeston manor at least two other contemporary medieval settlements existed : a hamlet ( now only a single farm ) at Sutton , half a mile to the south of Cosmeston ; and a small hamlet at Lavernock , the present centre of the parish which was once centred on Cosmeston . |
| 45 | He sensed the growing tension in Mariana and felt her turn her head so that she could no longer see the wall of cloud less than half a mile to their left . |
| 46 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 47 | The enclosed area is roughly triangular , not at all the square you might imagine , and is surprisingly big , about 1km ( over half a mile ) across its longest axis . |
| 48 | The water arrives via a long , straight mill race , about half a mile in length . |
| 49 | The water course was embanked for around half a mile and is partially stone lined . |
| 50 | Just half a mile away , we could see the rampart of sand , 20 feet high , behind which the Palestinians lay waiting , unwilling participants in a ceasefire which Arafat himself had already declared sacrosanct . |
| 51 | Instead , they went on watching the Syrian tanks manoeuvring down the road half a mile away , in what had the previous day been the Christian front line . |
| 52 | In the stillness you can hear calls from the hillside half a mile away . |
| 53 | Irena lived in a late-Seventies block of flats on the edge of town , half a mile from the Russian barracks , part of an ugly outer-urban sprawl . |
| 54 | By making do and searching for essential materials — in a war-torn country — a production unit was created in the University Pathology laboratory and enough crude penicillin was extracted for further essential laboratory experiments and to treat several patients in the Radcliffe Infirmary half a mile away . |
| 55 | Tavey Grange lay half a mile beyond the Manor House Hotel . |
| 56 | Finding myself mildly offended , and not to be denied contact , I shouted and waved from at least half a mile away . |
| 57 | The beach at Skara Brae , the Bay of Skail , is one of the loveliest in Scotland : half a mile of yellow sand , washed by endless , white-fringed , green Atlantic waves . |
| 58 | Without a word , I restarted the motor and headed back to the mooring bay , half a mile distant , encouraged by a running commentary : ‘ Why are we going in ? |
| 59 | Rods are sometimes available on the lower river , where Rockpool , half a mile from the sea , is open to the public for sea-trout in April , and from June onwards for salmon . |
| 60 | The town itself lay some half a mile distant , its gentle grey houses clustered , in a hollow , on each side of the twining silver river , like a flock of drowsy sheep . |