Example sentences of "many miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging by the sound of the guns , they must be of a heavier calibre , and their target many miles away . |
| 2 | The Andalo is a well constructed boot designed for the wider British foot , which gave me many miles of trouble-free walking . |
| 3 | On these rides , sometimes of many miles , he found things with which Emmanuel Congregational church and Repton school chapel had not made him familiar . |
| 4 | And when they were over the blue Aegean sea , many miles from Antioch , he circled widely , descended , and alighted on a small mountainous island , on soft green grass beside a grove of apple trees . |
| 5 | Nathan and I are quite alone , many miles from civilization and , apparently , lost , the wind having blown snow across the tracks ahead suggests that we just let the dogs lead us towards the others , a well-reasoned idea that works perfectly . |
| 6 | Even with so many miles under its belt the injected 108bhp engine is never truly competitively smooth and quiet , but this young engine was quite intolerable , its overall lack of refinement evident the moment you fired it up . |
| 7 | But from New Jersey all the way round to Texas , the hinterland of the coast is dead flat and the beaches stretch for many miles . |
| 8 | The air was thick with smoke and he was not offered dinner afterwards , merely driven back to the organizer 's home many miles away . |
| 9 | According to the story the fallen quails create a pile round the camp many , many miles in diameter , and three feet deep ! |
| 10 | A potential trainer has to be at least 18 , educated up to GCSE standard in maths and English , plus a science subject , and be fit — as they walk many miles a day in all weathers . |
| 11 | Coffee will help — blessedly hot liquid to scald or drown those shaggy beasts in the brick shelter so many miles away from here in the place I once called Home . |
| 12 | We live in a highly mobile society where the norm is to live in small nuclear family groups , probably many miles away from the rest of the family and maybe having very little physical contact or communication with other members of the ‘ tribe ’ . |
| 13 | Iran was certainly strategically vital , threatened by Russia on its flank ; but abstract because it was so many miles away , politically eccentric , and hard to place . |
| 14 | Easky 's spire could be seen from the back window from many miles away . |
| 15 | He does not go abroad much which is as well since he has little sense of direction and has twice been found many miles from home wandering the streets . |
| 16 | Sam thought for a second he could smell damp straw — ’ … and carried many miles to a place they have never seen before and from which they can never return . |
| 17 | Walking : Many miles of marked paths maps are available from the local Tourist Offices . |
| 18 | There have been repeated calls for reopening , but the destruction of many miles of trackbed would seem to make this a pipedream . |
| 19 | Lakes may take in water from many miles away that has percolated through the soil or through aquifers over decades . |
| 20 | or simply too many miles since they were last replaced . |
| 21 | The LR 2.25 diesel is a very reliable unit if looked after and not abused and will last many miles . |
| 22 | Allied bombings in 1943 devastated the city , and the light from the fires was visible for many miles out across the plain . |
| 23 | The mill buildings themselves tower over Tewkesbury and can be seen for many miles around . |
| 24 | On the prairies these stations , with their high steep-pitched roofs and their larger adjacent grain elevators , could be seen from many miles away . |
| 25 | Even on the main routes over the mountains , we have travelled many miles through snow blizzards without seeing a single house on the horizon . |
| 26 | You were covering as many miles a day as you possibly could , depending on the going … . |
| 27 | Male emperor moths can pick up minute concentrations of female moth pheromones from many miles away . ’ |
| 28 | The key point was that this population of captive bats was a mixture of two separate groups , taken from caves many miles apart . |
| 29 | The main shape of the landscape — mountains , rolling hills , and flat plains — is based on the geological rock formations , but has been severely modified by the movement of glaciers which carried vast quantities of rock , grinding it down in the process , depositing it in the form of boulders , gravel , sand , and silt , often many miles from its original outcrop . |
| 30 | River insects develop wings in the last stage of their life cycle , and dragonflies are known to be able to fly many miles . |