Example sentences of "mile [coord] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the dairy yard where Friesian cows wait to be milked , fields stretch a mile and a half to a distant hill . |
| 2 | From Dent , the street opposite the Sedgwick memorial is taken ; this soon becomes a country lane followed for a mile and a half to Deepdale Methodist Chapel , ignoring a signposted branch to Ingleton after a mile . |
| 3 | The large weatherboarded mill on the River Stour a mile and a half to the south-east of the village is Flatford Mill , the former home of John Constable , whose father was a prosperous miller . |
| 4 | A mile and a half to the south of the town , on the west bank of the River Kent at Helsington , are two rubble-stone mills with workers ' cottages . |
| 5 | Once cast off from the submarine they began the steady rhythm of paddling that took them along their course with a mile and a half to the beach , their sweat-raising stroke giving 3 knots — equal to a steady walking pace . |
| 6 | When he went home to his parents ' house in Ealing or to the Barbican , his grandmother drove him the mile and a half to Rickmansworth station , which is up on the northern end of the Metropolitan Line . |