Example sentences of "about [adj] mile [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sigglesthorne is in Holderness , about three miles inland from the coastal town of Hornsea , and ten miles east-north-east of Beverley — the county town of the former East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 2 | I refuelled and re-armed and went back to keep an eye on Thacker who was about three miles out in the channel . |
| 3 | The next day the whole unit moved to a forward rendezvous point about sixty miles inland from the coast . |
| 4 | It lies now beneath the waters of the lake , about ten miles out from the shore . |
| 5 | The distraught woman was dumped about five miles away from the reservoir , at Whitburn , west Lothian , and she flagged down a police patrol car from the Lothian and Borders force . |
| 6 | The ash cloud has been moving around the earth at 75 mph at an altitude of about 15 miles up in the stratosphere . |
| 7 | Eight of the properties Citalia has secured are in an old farmhouse on the estate about two miles away from the castle . |
| 8 | you know it 's not , not , it 's not like Benidorm or anything like that it 's it 's somewhere like , it 's about seven miles away from the sea , but as I said they |