Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] a mile " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village itself stretches for about a mile southwards from the Driffield-Bridlington road . |
| 2 | A police landrover followed the car to the gates and for about a mile after it turned . |
| 3 | But it was no easy task , and heavy equipment had to be manhandled for about a mile from the nearest road . |
| 4 | At the Plain roundabout go straight over into Cowley Road and continue along for about a mile and a half . |
| 5 | Gubberford Lane is a winding country lane and for about a mile it is without footpaths . |
| 6 | One section , eastwards from Ratho for about a mile , has been improved and is well-used by walkers and cyclists — it shows the potential the whole route could have if upgraded . |
| 7 | but erm so had it been a Foxhalls , something about a minute no , he said only for about a mile , that was it . |
| 8 | After about a mile turn east and then north to Weston Farm . |
| 9 | After about a mile , where the road forks , take the left fork and after a further 200yds , turn left a crossroads and follow the road which goes across the saddle between two tors . |
| 10 | In the nineteenth century the various companies amalgamated and gradually merged their quarries into this one colossal pit , which has a circumference of about a mile and a depth of four hundred feet . |
| 11 | , The largest flying boat in the world only made one flight ( of about a mile in length at a height of about eighty feet ) , and until recently has been preserved within an aluminium-dome museum , close to the Queen Mary in Long Beach , California . |
| 12 | After about forty minutes Van Gelder moved up into the bows with a portable six-inch searchlight which , on such a clear night , had an effective range of over a mile . |
| 13 | Often the outfall will be off-site and it may be necessary to provide a storm water sewer of over a mile to achieve an outfall acceptable to the water authority . |
| 14 | They can smell the bombykol released by a single female , at a distance of over a mile . |
| 15 | Most of them are not able to manage the walk of over a mile to the A6 to catch the Lancaster- Preston bus |
| 16 | The walk of over a mile to the nearest bus stop on the A6 can be very off-putting in bad weather . |
| 17 | The coats were ornately if not fabulously stitched with over a mile of gold thread . |
| 18 | Railway No. 3 was to run for over a mile across the open space known as Mitcham Common and was intended as a link between Mitcham and Croydon , with little expectation of intermediate traffic . |
| 19 | for over a mile , dropping like two cut flowers |
| 20 | At the first bump the strap sprang off and the bike fell onto the road , but as the front wheel was still tied on , the bike was dragged behind for over a mile , until vehicles hooting from behind warned me something was amiss . |
| 21 | The ‘ wanted to sell ’ ads stretched for pages , and one main street consisted of wall-to-wall car lots for over a mile on both sides ! |
| 22 | Sadler navigated the party to within a mile of the town , and splitting into groups the men headed off into the darkness laden with their bombs . |
| 23 | Overnight , the violence has spread to within a mile of my house . |
| 24 | Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters ; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile . |