Example sentences of "three mile to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to walk three mile to work , Doubled up when you got so far down . |
| 2 | Not so many years ago parents would have thought nothing of their children walking two or three miles to school in the morning and back again in the afternoon . |
| 3 | On learning of this , Achym pursued his steward for three miles to Bury Down , where he did him to death at a place known as Slew Gate . |
| 4 | Three miles to the west , near the village of Austerlitz , ninety thousand Russian and Hapsburg troops faced a slightly smaller number of French in preparation for the decisive battle of the campaign . |
| 5 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 6 | Near the chancel arch is a niche dedicated to St Sitha — her only claim to fame , according to local tradition , is that she was martyred , her head was cut off ‘ and she picked it up and ran three miles to the nearby ( sic ! ) church to warn the other Christians . ’ |
| 7 | Negotiations have also commenced with the local authorities regarding the railway 's long term aids — to relay the track a further three miles to the outskirts of Bath — and initial reactions to these plans have been encouraging . |
| 8 | A population density of 35 per square mile gives less than 1,000 possible contacts within three miles to any individual : a density of 10,000 per square mile gives him 280,000 possible contacts in the same radius . |
| 9 | One of the most interesting marshland villages is Alvingham , situated just three miles to the north-east of Louth . |
| 10 | A scheme to continue the tramway for three miles to the stone quarries at Langton Matravers did not materialise . |
| 11 | In the past , habit is expressed by used to or , when a number of habits are referred to , would may be used : I used to walk three miles to school ( every morning ) when I was a child ; He would wake up at about 6.30 . |
| 12 | It was three miles to Jane Ashton 's place . |
| 13 | They intended to canoe the three miles to Charmouth but it was up to four hours after they were due to arrive that a huge rescue operation was mounted . |
| 14 | So when they do finally get their car it goes about three miles to the gallon , and it , it really |
| 15 | This is three miles to one inch , that one is n't it ? |