Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [num] mile [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed Mr Jones had , in the past , accepted a transfer from Chatterley Whitfield Colliery ( a couple of miles from his home ) to Hem Heath Colliery ( around 12 to 13 miles from his home ) . |
| 2 | We felt able to announce that we could increase this from 30 to 50 miles at virtually any point around the coast of Great Britain and Ireland . |
| 3 | This was especially so in Wales where some of the land was often 30 to 40 miles from home . |
| 4 | When yesterday 's stage 10 of 116 miles from Sheffield into Liverpool city centre ended with victory for Alexandre Nadobenko of the Kazakhstan team on the cobbled climb of William Brown Street , young Norwegian Simensen provided the closest overall challenge to Lillywhite . |
| 5 | It all began on 13 April 1898 with 37 miles of the Corporation 's very own tramway track and an extra four miles kindly leased by Govan . |
| 6 | And it seems to me that the outer suggested limit of ten miles is unduly generous and that there are more than sufficient sites available within a radius of six to eight miles from York City Centre . |
| 7 | Now whilst I might concur with that view if it was er well related to the A sixty four , in fact immediately adjacent to the A sixty four , I think given the criteria you 've got that the new settlement clearly has to avoid the greenbelt , I think that actually any of the locations being ten miles s sorry six to ten miles outside of the York urban area , would play little role in meeting the strategic employment needs of the urban area . |
| 8 | This is not unusual we know of one set on a 90 at 36,000 miles from new |
| 9 | On an average day Mark and his entourage would cover 18 to 20 miles with Tara carrying half a ton of equipment on her back . |
| 10 | We 've managed about ten to fifteen miles at a pinch Which is not bad for a couple of old'uns is it ? |
| 11 | I envisage however not more than 50 to 60 miles per day . |
| 12 | The job involved being in charge of ‘ country correspondents ’ in villages scattered within 25 to 50 miles around the city , editing their weekly contributions , measuring their column-inches for payments and generally supervising the rural aspect of the newspaper . |
| 13 | Using Lindbergh 's techniques , fighter squadrons increased their radius of action from 500 to 700 miles on the same fuel , a huge tactical advantage in that island-hopping war . |
| 14 | All traffics using the southbound carriageway at the moment there are delays of about five to six miles on the southbound approach to those roadworks also quite busy northbound at the moment . |
| 15 | An area that was considered by the secretary of state as being five to seven miles of York City centre and is almost entirely within the greenbelt . |
| 16 | They recall his taste for long walks of twenty to twenty-five miles in rural settings away from Battersea , his passion for fishing in ponds and canals , and his accurate enlightening knowledge of birds , trees , insects , and flowers . |
| 17 | He said he was going at 40 to 60 miles per hour . |
| 18 | Even although stations were established every four to nine miles along this immense line of rail , the boomers often chose the wrong spots . |
| 19 | The loch , like many others in the Highlands , is no longer as Nature fashioned it , the length having been increased from four to nine miles as the result of reservoir operations . |
| 20 | ‘ At speeds up to 75mph , she achieves an average of 19 to 20 miles per gallon . |