Example sentences of "thousand mile to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I decided to give my countryman a chance , not that I 'd moved four thousand miles to be shown around London by a fellow American , and a hick from the provinces to boot . |
| 2 | With little money in his pocket , and in fear for his life in those troubled times , he crossed the two thousand miles to the east well clear of the main highways and the great railways . |
| 3 | They 're two thousand miles to the east of St Petersburg . |
| 4 | What he did n't know was that the captives had already been moved over two thousand miles to the east . |
| 5 | Two thousand miles to the east of St Petersburg , the boxcar was part of a long train that had started out in St Petersburg a week earlier and had gone along the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 6 | We returned to Makassar from the Toraja highlands with dangerously diminished funds , realizing that we had been in Celebes for two months and that the chances of finding a prahu which could carry us the nearly two thousand miles to the Aru Islands were remote . |
| 7 | What he did not tell me — and I only learnt during the course of the journey — was that we were adding about a thousand miles to our route . |
| 8 | ‘ Yet you were prepared to sail almost two thousand miles to the Greek islands with him . ’ |
| 9 | Three young Africans have travelled six thousand miles to Swindon in the hope of realising their life 's ambition . |