Example sentences of "ten mile to " in BNC.

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1 We were then taken by boat about ten miles to Bone where an armed Army escort awaited us for interrogation and we were kept in a locked room in the barracks .
2 It is only ten miles to the English border , twenty from Carlisle .
3 The trouble is it only does ten miles to the gallon . ’
4 A recently released consultant 's report commissioned by the local authorities declared that the arrival of the Llangollen Railway in Corwen would be the single most important factor in the economic regeneration of the town which has for so long lived in the shadow of Llangollen , ten miles to the east .
5 The signpost outside the post office told her that it was ten miles to Abbotsfield and twenty-five to Bristol .
6 ‘ Only ten miles to Abbotsfield . ’
7 Ten miles to the south , and still in France , the Emperor 's heavy carriage waited at the roadside .
8 She was a bit heavy-handed and we kangaroo-hopped for ten miles to a garage .
9 Eventually it receded leaving the fertile marshlands stretching for more or less ten miles to the wolds , whose now gentle eastern slopes were once the exposed chalk cliffs .
10 Both men had shops in a village ten miles to the east of Reine , on the Seine .
11 She was a bit heavy-handed and we kangaroo-hopped for ten miles to a garage .
12 From the pass which stands at 6700ft , the Tujetschtal valley drops 3000ft through Alpine meadows to Disentis town , ten miles to the east .
13 Ten miles to Ely , and that 's hardly a centre of riotous activity for .
14 Davies 's rivalry with the Bute estate , which controlled Cardiff docks and the Taff Vale railway that served it , led him into another dramatic new venture , the building of new docks at Barry , ten miles to the west of Cardiff , as a rival entrepôt for Rhondda coal .
15 When they arrived in Portimão , a bustling fishing port some ten miles to the west of Praia do Carvoeiro , the tables which sat in rows in front of the quayside restaurants had already begun to fill .
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