Example sentences of "[num] miles to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ouvéa sailed from Whangarei on the morning of 9 July , 36 hours before the Rainbow Warrior was blown up , arriving in Norfolk Island 625 miles to the north on 13 July , thus providing Maniguet and his ‘ crew ’ with a seemingly perfect alibi . |
| 2 | CORE was launched in 1980 to oppose the importing of foreign spent nuclear fuel through the docks at Barrow-in-Furness , forty miles to the south of the site . |
| 3 | Forty miles to the south , the Dragoon Lieutenant who had been kicked by his dying horse haemorrhaged in the nettles beside the ditch . |
| 4 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 5 | Western Europe is scaled at a useful 12 miles to the inch , while the remainder , including Poland , Romania , northern Scandinavia and western USSR , is at 48 miles to the inch . |
| 6 | Historic Arundel with its medieval castle ( much altered and restored ) is 12 miles to the east . |
| 7 | I rode 12 miles to the start , hid the bike and set off . |
| 8 | The Russians 800 miles to the east of the Elbe scarcely threatened Otto I , but the Byzantines could be expected to react unfavourably to his imperial coronation , and Kiev was already in the orbit of Byzantine trade and political influence . |
| 9 | So there it lay , 300 miles to the north , utterly cut off from us by the hurricanes which — according to the local weather men — were raging back and forth nearby . |
| 10 | Stirling , the strategic thinker , had already reasoned that the Afrika Korps would have to re-route their supply lines and that the small port of Bouerat , 300 miles to the west , would become extremely important . |
| 11 | Oxford with its splendid college buildings , theatres and museums is 30 miles to the south . |
| 12 | For example , the late John Strachey , former Minister of Food , used to contend that had the notorious African Ground Nuts Scheme been placed just 30 miles to the West of the site chosen in Tanganyika ( now Tanzania ) , the climate differed just sufficiently there that all would have been well . |
| 13 | Today the activities of 9,000 students and 1,000 staff are accommodated not only in the parkland campus of 330 acres surrounding the Trent Building but also within the adjacent Medical School and University Hospital and in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences some 10 miles to the south . |
| 14 | The ship and its contents in barrow 1 is one of three known boats , the others being from Sutton Hoo mound 2 and Snape on the River Alde 10 miles to the north-east . |
| 15 | Forward scouts came back to inform that the English might had reached Cheswick , a mere six miles to the south , and its vanguard would be before Berwick in a few hours . |
| 16 | Then , in the late 1970s , a new motorway thrust through the county and a junction was constructed just six miles to the west . |
| 17 | The force-landed in the Saudi desert at dawn , a 100 miles to the south of Bahrain and the starboard undercarriage leg collapsed . |
| 18 | The first leg of our journey was to Abri , a village on the river almost 100 miles to the south . |
| 19 | This is the main highway from Istanbul , which lies about 100 miles to the east , to the Greek border , some 100 miles to the west , and although in most parts it has a good tarmac surface it is in the main single carriageway . |
| 20 | This is the main highway from Istanbul , which lies about 100 miles to the east , to the Greek border , some 100 miles to the west , and although in most parts it has a good tarmac surface it is in the main single carriageway . |
| 21 | A scheme to continue the tramway for three miles to the stone quarries at Langton Matravers did not materialise . |
| 22 | So when they do finally get their car it goes about three miles to the gallon , and it , it really |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | One of the most interesting marshland villages is Alvingham , situated just three miles to the north-east of Louth . |
| 25 | At the head of a small cavalry force he rode almost non-stop for two days and nights and on 12 February he fell upon Aimar 's routiers as they attacked the church of Gorre a dozen miles to the west of Limoges , believing him to be still somewhere beyond Poitiers . |
| 26 | Some 600 miles to the north of south-central Los Angeles , it was the general store in Petrolia , the small town in Humboldt County where I live . |
| 27 | The climate , the landscape and what remains of German architecture all set Kaliningrad somewhat apart from the government in Moscow 600 miles to the east . |
| 28 | A car built by students in the Mechanical Engineering Department achieved an average of 764 miles to the gallon in the annual Shell Mileage Marathon . |
| 29 | At 0800 the ‘ Tiger ’ convoy was still some 90 miles to the west of Malta , while the Mediterranean Fleet was 120 miles to the south , but by 1515 the two west-bound Malta-destined convoys , for which the Mediterranean Fleet had also provided cover , had arrived at Malta . |
| 30 | The Nile has two mouths , one at Rashid and the other some 90 miles to the east at Damyat ; just below Cairo the river bifurcates for its last run to the sea . |