Example sentences of "[num] [prep] miles [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HOW do you cope with training when your staff are scattered hundreds of miles apart across 140 different locations ? |
| 2 | I T happened hundreds of miles apart in different countries , but the desired aim of striking fear into the minds of law-abiding citizens was achieved in each case . |
| 3 | And in Scotland , too ; hundreds of miles away from everyone she knew . |
| 4 | ‘ He is many hundreds of miles away from his family and likes to go home and see his mother and father , who are elderly , ’ said Mr Ripman . |
| 5 | At that moment , hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire , Colin was seeing the secret garden for the first time , and saying , ‘ I 'm going to live for ever and ever and ever ! ’ |
| 6 | On one occasion I was present when , due to the exigencies of war , a Kachin from eastern Burma fetched up hundreds of miles away in a Kachin village in eastern Assam . |
| 7 | A nurse has said she was accosted by a man soon after the killing on the M-fifty , while the man jailed for the murder was hundreds of miles away in Scotland . |
| 8 | But the Kylie story really starts thousand of miles away from Bethlehem Hospital , way down in the Welsh valleys … |
| 9 | Is it strange going thousands of miles away to Australia and finding out that you 're as known there as you are on this island ? |
| 10 | Even though Durie and Hobbs were thousands of miles away at the time of Britain 's demise at the hands of the Asians in Melbourne last December , the pair nevertheless felt the pain their colleagues were suffering . |
| 11 | Thousands of miles away at Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine U.S.A. , is 144 the first Standard to be preserved . |
| 12 | As to ‘ our bridge ’ ( which is never mentioned again ) , the reader can if he likes reflect that Kirillov is an odd fish and will no doubt prove himself persona non grata in ‘ our town ’ , or that the local bureaucrats are an officious and/or corrupt lot , or that the central authority thousands of miles away in Petersburg enjoys throwing its weight about . |
| 13 | Production can not be ‘ just-in-time ’ when parts are imported from thousands of miles away in Japan . |
| 14 | With mum Carol 's heritage it could never have been any other way — her roots , after all , lay thousands of miles away in Wales , the Land of Song . |
| 15 | And again this proves to be the case : our example is found in Arctic Canada , in the high Arctic island of Spitsbergen , thousands of miles away in what is now the desert country of Nevada and Utah in the United States , in western Ireland , in Russia , and in northwestern Australia . |
| 16 | Everything he draws , she sees as it unfolds thousands of miles away in Hampstead . |
| 17 | The cover of this report illustrates the chain of economic linkages which begins with distilleries in the Highlands and Islands , and ends many thousands of miles away in export markets around the globe . |
| 18 | The turning point came when , thousands of miles away from the series ’ Melbourne home , the then controller of the BBC 's main channel ripped up his schedules in a bid to beat plunging ratings . |
| 19 | The last two points highlight the fact that economic problems and policies of major countries , e.g. , USA , Japan and West Germany , can influence the livelihoods of nations and people many thousands of miles away from policy-making centres . |
| 20 | For Hester , the problem was compounded by the fact that she was thousands of miles away from Thomas . |
| 21 | For you sit here , thousands of miles away from Palestine , a land which most of you will never see , and yet which you will certainly pay for-with your money , yes , and some of you with your blood and sweat — you sit here and you listen to me as I tell you about this impossible , this ridiculous dream , and it does n't occur to you that we are all mad , you and I and all our people ? ’ |
| 22 | These deposits , thousands of miles inland from the nearest sea , indicate a period during which vast lakes developed . |