Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [det] mile [prep] " in BNC.

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1 and in October he moved down to Shamley Green , a village a few miles outside Guildford and within commuting distance of London .
2 She was brought up in Cramer , a coastal village a few miles from Dunstanburgh .
3 The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden .
4 ‘ As the cockle-gatherers of Penclawdd , the seaside village a few miles from the Eisteddfod field realise only too well , the ebb never leaves empty-handed it leaves behind traces of new life .
5 The latest 280sq miles of fields stretch from the Red Wharf Bay area of Anglesey to a point a few miles from Crosby .
6 Tabor , named from a hill a few miles from Bethlehem , was founded in 1420 by the Taborites , the radical wing of the Hussite movement .
7 The men were waiting for Karen in a hotel room a few miles from the accident .
8 But Florida has two other prominent international junior training centres — the Rick Macci International Tennis Academy at Grenelefe Resort a few miles from Orlando and Disney World ; and Harry Hopman/Saddlebrook Resort in the town of Wesley Chapel near Tampa .
9 On the fourth day we moved our camp a few miles to the east , where our trackers maintained we should find the nyala more numerous ; this proved to be the case .
10 He taught at the College of Further Education a few miles from Spaxton ; she had met him through a rambling club .
11 With painful slowness it carried him to the station a few miles from his home .
12 He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire .
13 It happened in 1913 at Senghenydd in mid-Glamorgan , a mining village just over the hill and the moorland a few miles from my home .
14 Seventeenth July — I joined about 20 Commandos from the various units around the village on a trip to a quiet part of the beach a few miles from our front-line positions .
15 Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence .
16 Nick took her to a small restaurant a few miles outside Cambridge , where they both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened .
17 I was passed out after a night drinking rice wine and native beer with my band of happy , brother war correspondents in the bar of a hotel a few miles from the front .
18 Their first project , the design of a wetland to treat household sewage from a hotel a few miles from Drumnadrochit and Loch Ness , exemplifies this belief .
19 On a dark and icy cold morning in January 1946 I flew in an RAF plane from Berlin to Kiel and then drove in a jeep to a British Army Church House a few miles outside the city .
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