Example sentences of "[subord] a [num] miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means laying more than a million miles of underground cables in our streets at a cost of £6 BILLION . |
| 2 | In the meantime more than a thousand miles of rivers had been made navigable , but these made no noticeable change in the landscape . |
| 3 | Ca n't be more than a thousand miles . |
| 4 | Considering that Belfast was not involved in that event fifty years previously one might have hoped that those so minded to would have contented themselves with attending the ceremony in Dublin , less than a hundred miles away . |
| 5 | There was , he calculated , seldom less than a hundred miles between himself and the people he loved . |
| 6 | We were less than a hundred miles away from Adrar , and it was New Year 's Eve . |
| 7 | The nine-mile-long Crinan Canal was cut through the Kintyre peninsula from Crinan Lock to Loch Fyne to create a passage for shipping that saved a journey of more than a hundred miles . |
| 8 | Less than a hundred miles away , in the small darkened room , the man at the screen watched the jet descend . |
| 9 | On any given day sonic booms rattle the land near Edwards Air Force Base , while soldiers practising tank battles at Fort Irwin leave dust clouds visible more than a hundred miles away . |
| 10 | The carrot-shaped Attic peninsula dangles into the Aegean towards the Cyclades islands ; there are more than a hundred miles of hospitable Attic coastline , with plenty of good harbours from Skala Oropou in the north-east , past Laurion , just mentioned , round Sounion with its dockyards . |
| 11 | They were dismayed when news came that he was as close as Manz , less than a hundred miles from Addis Ababa , harrying the district with a vast army . |
| 12 | Dortmund 's less than a hundred miles , mostly by Autobahn , so you could have been there by midnight . |
| 13 | Now if I point out that it 's in bold erm and it preempts a question that generally comes up and that is if we er we will pay thirty percent up to a hundred miles one way away from home and er if we had to send you , and it 's a big if I have to say it 's a big if in especially in the medical practice side , if we had to send you more than a hundred miles we will pay another five percent . |
| 14 | more than a hundred miles . |
| 15 | We pay thirty five percent if it 's more than a hundred miles away from home . |
| 16 | The jewellery tycoon Gerald Ratner has been banned from driving for three weeks for doing more than a hundred miles an hour on the motorway . |
| 17 | A motorcyclist died when he hit a wall after being chased by police at more than a hundred miles an hour . |
| 18 | Now he faces the prospect of having to go to a school more than a hundred miles from his home . |
| 19 | It 's it 's more than a hundred miles from us . |
| 20 | Intercity buses in the United States carry 375 million passengers a year across more than a billion miles — quite a legacy from the first US bus service which operated on Long Island in 1899 . |
| 21 | The isolation — I have only once been in an admission ward less than a dozen miles from my home — and the physical environment — inappropriate design , upstairs dormitories that must be locked all day , uninvolving regimentation — are aspects of a system of care whose inadequacies should not be underestimated . |
| 22 | During Hannah 's childhood and well beyond , Dalesfolk lived in a closed world where to travel more than a dozen miles from the farmstead was an unusual adventure the wireless a strange and suspicious device from foreign parts and a local newspaper something of an occasional luxury . |
| 23 | The island is little more than a dozen miles long and in places only a mile or two wide . |