Example sentences of "[num] mile [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terrain of the 22 mile trek in Wester Ross is some of the wildest in Britain . |
| 2 | It was organised by several local groups , including Wensleydale railway association , which sees the present 22 mile branch as a vital link in its campaign to restore the last 17 miles of the Wensleydale line between Redmire and Garsdale . |
| 3 | 12 MILE HIKE IN NORTH YORKSHIRE |
| 4 | 140 mile route over Lincolnshire Wolds from the Humber Bridge to Oakham , Leicester . |
| 5 | Next morning the sky had cleared but the winds had increased and the remainder of that 300 mile flight from Swift Current to Calgary was the roughest I have ever experienced before or since . |
| 6 | That pioneering aviation company , Western Canada Airways Limited , had engaged a number of the famous ‘ bush pilots ’ of the northern flying service to operate a daily air mail service over the 800 mile route between Winnipeg and Calgary . |
| 7 | A number of village health workers ( VHWs ) link villages scattered over a 30 mile radius to the health centre . |
| 8 | With over 34,000 hotel beds within a 30 mile radius of Birmingham , the city can accommodate even the largest international events . |
| 9 | Considerable differences in soil types , climate , age groups , methods of farming , outlets for produce , attitudes and thoughts on the future of the industry were found within a 30 mile radius of Bourg en Bresse . |
| 10 | 50,000 ) with satellite market towns of 10,000 each at 20–30 mile distances around the compass . |
| 11 | The return leg was into the wind and included a 2 mile drag from Nutts Corner roundabout on the Belfast Road and Evans , turning his 100 inch fixed gear clawed back to once again beat McCann by 8 seconds with a time of 21.32 . |
| 12 | The company plans to build a factory at a site 700 miles North of Moscow in conjunction with the Russian Kamaz engineering company and wants Mr Mukwala fluent in Russian after spending six years at Moscow University to help liaise with the local workforce . |
| 13 | The ‘ bomb ’ was sent 700 miles south to Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico where it was exposed to a beam of muons produced in the laboratory 's particle accelerator . |
| 14 | One city of a million people , Ufa , 700 miles east of Moscow , was described in Pravda in 1987 as having become unfit for human habitation . |
| 15 | A train derailment near the town of Lakehead , California , 175 miles north of San Francisco , has resulted in disastrous contamination of the Sacramento River by 20,000 gallons of the herbicide metham sodium . |
| 16 | Forty miles south of Perugia it is now an agricultural centre . |
| 17 | This man was in Brussels , forty miles north of where the Emperor invaded Belgium . |
| 18 | We were bound for North Rona and Sula Sgeir , two little-known islands at the north west limits of the British Isles , some forty miles north of the Outer Hebrides . |
| 19 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 20 | It had been in touch with air control in Athens and had been instructed to alter course over the island of Amorgós — that 's about forty miles north-east of here — and proceed on a roughly north-north-west course . |
| 21 | Road : 2 miles W of Amesbury on junction of A303 with A344/A360 . |
| 22 | The park is situated on the A361 , 2 miles south of its junction with the A40 . |
| 23 | 2 miles south of Leeds City Centre off the A61 . |
| 24 | Preston Manor ( 2 miles north on the A23 ) offers visitors a chance to relive the Edwardian era both ‘ upstairs and downstairs ’ , and in Dyke Road see The Booth Museum of Natural History . |
| 25 | Length 9 miles ( 14.5km() , 4–1/2 hours Difficulty 3–4 Start Ruined chapel at Suardal. 2 miles SW of Broadford , Skye . |
| 26 | TRAPRAIN LAW 2 miles south-east of East Linton . |
| 27 | ABBOTSFORD Off the A7 just over 2 miles south-east of Galashiels . |
| 28 | Poachers have carried out a sustained assault on tigers in the Indian reserve of Ranthambhor , 140 miles south of Delhi . |
| 29 | About 15 miles south of Florence and 22 miles north of Siena , lies the Tavarnelle Val di Pesa , one of the nine boroughs which make up the Chianti Classico wine producing region . |
| 30 | It is around 22 miles east of Cheltenham , 20 miles west of Oxford and 18 miles north of Swindon . |