Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a hundred miles or so , she came off the motorway to pick up fuel and drink a cup of coffee . |
| 2 | As the saying goes , the journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step , so by now you should be thinking of putting all your good intentions into practice and getting out to walk . |
| 3 | Their task … to find a route from Manaus to Georgetown … a distance of a thousand miles … |
| 4 | Winds of a hundred miles an hour or more roared and whistled round the isolated house on the cliffs , tearing at window catches , rattling doors . |
| 5 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 6 | speeding is dangerous for teh fact that it 's a very confined area … even at fifty miles an hour … that 's a conbined impact speed of a hundred miles an hour … we 're also thinking of the workmen , who are sometimes working where there 's no central barrier |
| 7 | That light came originally from the same source as Fenna 's fire , from the heart of the golden star , from the sun itself — but it was light crashing around space at speeds which defy relativity , rolling like waves , bouncing like particles , rebounding off the dead desert of the cold moon and hurled thence , down through nearly a quarter of a million miles , forced through the steadily slowly moving liquid molecules of solid glass which made the windows . |
| 8 | The event takes in one lap of the famous TT course and 12 laps of a seven miles circuit , coming down each time along the promenade . |
| 9 | The car has a top speed of a 152 miles an hour plus all the features the golf-clubbing , jet-setting buyer would want . |
| 10 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 11 | He makes it sound like a hundred miles instead of nine , Juliet thought , rising reluctantly . |
| 12 | In Salah would be the biggest town for a thousand miles . |
| 13 | After eight miles of rough driving , we reached the local highland town of Makale , and the only petrol-pump for a hundred miles . |
| 14 | There 's no sea for a hundred miles , you stupid man ! ’ |
| 15 | The next stretch northward for a hundred miles or more showed the variety of the Romanian countryside . |
| 16 | Well , for a hundred miles or an hour , but you did a tenth of a mile in a , a thousandth of an hour . |
| 17 | I recently changed my 1971 Range Rover for a 26,000 miles , high compression engine , 1984 model . |
| 18 | We hit about a hundred miles per hour minimum within seconds and hold it . |
| 19 | One irate caller promised : ‘ If I was down to my last spoonful of petrol , with a hundred miles still to go , I 'd drive past an Elf station . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He 'll manage twenty-five miles or so by nightfall , and that will bring him to the stream over there called the Carron , with a dozen miles of forest and boggy ground between himself and the main river-crossing . |
| 21 | Throughout the country , mileage restrictions on operational vehicles and on essential users include the following : ’ in the north west of the County , an area 20 miles across , was patrolled by an Area car with a 40 miles allocation for an 8 hour tour of duty ; in the conurbation the panda vehicles were restricted to 28 miles for each 8 hour shift ’ . |
| 22 | If we had to send you and it 's a big if , we had to send you another hundred mil further sorry another hundred miles , above a hundred miles we will pay you another five percent . |
| 23 | People who 've never even been within a thousand miles of Koraloona have heard of Mollie Green 's place . ’ |
| 24 | The Museum considers itself a pioneer in the creation of educational programmes , an important component of a museum 's mission when it is the only major art collection within a thousand miles in almost any direction . |
| 25 | On the other hand , were every indication to be that there was no chance of the letter ever being posted — for example if the person was a known thief and there was no post-box within a hundred miles — then in this case giving him or her the letter would be regarded as stupid . |
| 26 | Closely similar creatures called sea pens grow in the sea within a hundred miles of the Flinders Ranges . |
| 27 | It was true that in such a solitary place anyone within a dozen miles must have heard him . |
| 28 | He noted the classification of these stations , the great variety of styles used , and their relative paucity over vast desert distances compared with European standards — only sixty in a thousand miles — and their distance from the towns and cities they were to serve . |
| 29 | Wilf Orton , prosecuting , said Hooker , driving at up to 50 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour limit , had been trying to over-take four slower moving vehicles when he hit the other car side on . |
| 30 | Mark Farmer who 's already recorded the fastest lap of just over a 120 miles an hour is teaming up with Robert Dunlop … they ride over six laps … |