Example sentences of "be a [num] miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're a million miles from that . |
| 2 | She must have been a hundred miles away , she realised , trying to get her thoughts together . |
| 3 | Churchill had been a hundred miles from London , weekending in the country . |
| 4 | The British government over the water could have been a million miles away ( for detailed accounts see Arthur 1984 ; Buckland 1979 ; Farrell 1976 ; for a summary see McAllister 1983 ; for a summary of all forms of discrimination adopted , see Whyte 1983 ; Hillyard 1983 ) . |
| 5 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 6 | Could have been a million miles away . |
| 7 | But it might as well have been a million miles away . |
| 8 | But in a written statement Chelsea said tonight : ’ As far as the playing situation is concerned we are a million miles apart and we 're quite happy if necessary for it to be settled by the Football League appeals procedure . ’ |
| 9 | Although my neighbours are all barbarians , and you , you are a thousand miles away , there are always two cups on my table . ’ ' |
| 10 | The people who care for these snakes are very clever at milking them and getting the venom from the animal safely , and this is then purified biochemically and erm sent to us as a dried product in a stoppered bottle and the snakes are a thousand miles away , I 'm glad to say . |
| 11 | However , environments are usually so variable that even if the conditions are good where the animal is now , they probably will not be in a month 's time ; it may then be better to be a hundred miles south . |
| 12 | In place of a sandy , open heath , supporting a rough pasture , there would be a dozen miles of flowering hawthorn in time , enclosing small fields that were being assiduously marled to produce corn crops . |
| 13 | After the signing of the Treaty of Limerick in October 1691 the risk of an invasion via Ireland was slight , but unrest continued in Scotland , with whose problems William III had no sympathy ; he is said to have remarked that he wished it were a thousand miles away . |
| 14 | She knew it did n't make any sense , not after she had spent most of the day wishing she were a thousand miles away from Julius , but she suddenly felt rather desperately in need of human company — even Julius 's . |
| 15 | Equally dull rhetoric appears in : ( " Never during his life time though he were a hundred miles the other side of Rome in any circumstances would I take a mortal man to be my mate … " ) |
| 16 | Yeah , he 's there from Barnsley up Birmingham it says that were a hundred miles away where we got 'em to drop the money off |
| 17 | So here we were a million miles away from his world of steak and more steak and steak Tartare and steak Bernaise and Moet and Lanson and Dom Perignon . |
| 18 | It 's a million miles away from a cold wet evening in Hereford , but that does n't dampen the enthusiasm of the Holmer School Steel Band . |
| 19 | It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way . |
| 20 | Measures underway to effect this are ; increased substitution of gas for oil in industrial complexes and combined heat and power ( CHP ) schemes , but it is still reckoned that the USSR is a million miles behind the West in terms of energy efficiency . |
| 21 | But his luxury home , complete with a trout farm and stables , is a million miles from the council prefab he was brought up in during the '50s . |
| 22 | The world of interface development goals and positive confrontation resolution is a million miles from fast wickets and slow bowlers . |
| 23 | Happiness on Mary 's face reveals more than words about contemporary care that is a million miles from formal institutions of the past . |
| 24 | It is a hundred miles from King 's lions |
| 25 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 26 | Bankruptcy was a thousand miles away . |
| 27 | His life was a million miles away from ours , his past revered , his future assured , the son of a doctor and the father of one , and when it came to ‘ caring ’ he 'd only touched the surface . |
| 28 | The romantic agony that had bewitched him was a million miles from the conjugal love he was now determined to celebrate . |
| 29 | He claimed in the press that it set out Government policy , but it was a million miles away from our policy . |
| 30 | And it was a million miles from what Ronni had assumed ! |