Example sentences of "miles to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Luqa airport it 's 15 miles to the Gozo ferry at Cirkewwa . |
| 2 | It took over an hour to negotiate the couple of miles to the hotel and only then because , in exasperation , I ignored all rules of good driving not to mention half-a-dozen laws , and made my way blithely down a one-way street ( the wrong way , of course ) and down a ( prohibited ) tram-only lane . |
| 3 | It is about four miles to the Port of Ness from Cross and I think I tiptoed the whole way . |
| 4 | CORE was launched in 1980 to oppose the importing of foreign spent nuclear fuel through the docks at Barrow-in-Furness , forty miles to the south of the site . |
| 5 | A few miles to the south east of New Mills , east of Hillesley , stands the lovely little mill at Kilcott . |
| 6 | From the old tower , you can today look across at the concrete and mud emplacements of the occupying Israeli army two miles to the south . |
| 7 | In the distance , five miles to the south , a glow in the sky represented Oxford . |
| 8 | Today the activities of 9,000 students and 1,000 staff are accommodated not only in the parkland campus of 330 acres surrounding the Trent Building but also within the adjacent Medical School and University Hospital and in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences some 10 miles to the south . |
| 9 | The sliding plate brought forth a series of terranes from thousands of miles to the south . |
| 10 | Though he had never seen their cottage he seemed to remember that his aunt had told him that it lay about two miles to the south . |
| 11 | It once had a spire which , along with those at Ottringham and Patrington , helped to guide the mariners sailing on the river Humber some two and a half miles to the south . |
| 12 | At 0800 the ‘ Tiger ’ convoy was still some 90 miles to the west of Malta , while the Mediterranean Fleet was 120 miles to the south , but by 1515 the two west-bound Malta-destined convoys , for which the Mediterranean Fleet had also provided cover , had arrived at Malta . |
| 13 | Forward scouts came back to inform that the English might had reached Cheswick , a mere six miles to the south , and its vanguard would be before Berwick in a few hours . |
| 14 | Knutsford is situated some 16 miles to the south of Manchester . |
| 15 | They came from the edge of the desert , between Muscat and Salalah in Oman , hundreds of miles to the south . |
| 16 | Oxford with its splendid college buildings , theatres and museums is 30 miles to the south . |
| 17 | Cheltenham Spa , a fine Regency town , lies 6 miles to the south and is enjoyable for its shops , architecture and nearby racecourse . |
| 18 | The force-landed in the Saudi desert at dawn , a 100 miles to the south of Bahrain and the starboard undercarriage leg collapsed . |
| 19 | Ten miles to the south , and still in France , the Emperor 's heavy carriage waited at the roadside . |
| 20 | Forty miles to the south , the Dragoon Lieutenant who had been kicked by his dying horse haemorrhaged in the nettles beside the ditch . |
| 21 | Yet twenty-five miles to the south the French were already pushing the Prussian forces eastwards , away from the British . |
| 22 | Nine miles to the south , in the little village of Waterloo , the hugely fat Prussian Major had stopped his plodding horse at a small inn opposite the church . |
| 23 | Bielle is where you join the main valley road , and four miles to the south of it is Laruns , a neat and pleasing little town with a real town square which I have more than once thought might be good to stay in . |
| 24 | Two miles to the south of Saint-Savin is another of the double barrelled towns in this valley : Pierrefitte-Nestalas . |
| 25 | Further north in Staffordshire the ancient market town of Lichfield founded in 1149 on the line of one of the main London to Chester roads , declined into cosy respectability as the new Holyhead road was diverted sixteen miles to the south . |
| 26 | The first leg of our journey was to Abri , a village on the river almost 100 miles to the south . |
| 27 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 28 | In April 1975 , the Polytechnic was enlarged by being merged with the Glamorgan College of Education at Barry , twenty miles to the south in South Glamorgan , and was re-christened the Polytechnic of Wales . |
| 29 | The importance of Stonyditch Point as the end of the spit for a long period is emphasised by the position of Orford , which was well situated as a port when the Ness ended at Stonyditch Point and not in its present position some miles to the south . |
| 30 | The Trans-Siberian railway bypassed Tomsk some sixty miles to the south . |