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Example sentences for "miles from"

  • The course is situated 2-1/2 miles from Birr.

  • Keeping along the north shore of the lake, Hazlewood Park, 2 miles from Sligo, is well worth visiting.

  • Or from Kenmare, 20 miles, or from Glengarriff the tourist can ride to Parknasilla, 16 miles from Kenmare, where there is an excellent modern hotel and some of the loveliest scenery in Ireland.

  • East Tisted, 2 miles from Selborne, shortly to be available.

  • Winchelsea, situated about 8 miles from Hastings, though now a small village, was once an important seaport, being one of the Cinque Ports.

  • Its southern boundary is in several places only 16 miles from the St. Lawrence, while its most northern angle is within 13 miles of Lake St. John.

  • We were now slightly more than fifty miles from Foweera.

  • The White Nile, for a distance of 1,600 miles from Khartoum to Central Africa, was cleansed from the abomination of a traffic which had hitherto sullied its waters.

  • I told him that it was about one hundred and eighty miles from there to the summit, and if he could make that distance in ten days he would be able to get through, but if not, he could not cross the mountains this fall.

  • The Lieutenant established his headquarters fifty miles from where he had his quarters when we were out before, and now active work commenced, for there was plenty of it to be done.

  • We struck the Indian trail about twelve miles from headquarters, this being the first band that had escaped from the west side of the cave.

  • I remained with Uncle Kit until the first of October, looking after things in general, when he asked me to accompany him to Denver City, which was one hundred and eighty miles from Taos.

  • About 15° north of west from Hawikuh, and distant 1½ miles from it, begins the series of ruins called Chalowe.

  • Here some fighting occurred, and the Bears moved westward again to the head of Antelope (Jeditoh) Canyon, about 4 miles from Keam’s Canyon and about 15 miles east from Walpi.

  • We did not reach Gluckstadt (37 miles from Hamburgh) before the morning of the 30th.

  • The cinnamon plantations commenced about ten miles from Colombo; and on this side of the town are all the country-houses of the Europeans.

  • Note then that the position of Eli is marked by its distance of 300 miles from Comari, evidently indicating that this was a run made by the traveller on some occasion without an intermediate stoppage.

  • Eli is a kingdom towards the west, about 300 miles from Comari.

  • The town of THÁNA, on the landward side of the island of Salsette, still exists, about 20 miles from Bombay.

  • The earthwork is now finished over two-thirds of the length, and the track has been laid for a length of 58 miles from Mendoza.

  • Chumulari still higher: the distance from my position in the Khasia being 210 miles from Chumulari!

  • It is 13 miles from here (De Valls Bluff).

  • Paty had two places-one about four miles from Pine Bluff and the other about four miles from England on the river.

  • I was born 3 miles from Florence, Alabama.

  • The first place I worked on in Arkansas was the John Reeds bout 3 miles from Danville.

  • I went with Allan over where be lives, 7 miles from Donald's, 4 miles by the lake, then up the Nascaupee River 3 miles.

  • Count on bit of flour 22 miles from here.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    gain control; gentleman friend; hundred millions; husband will; leather goods; miles above; miles across; miles below; miles broad; miles distant; miles east; miles from; miles from the sea; miles further; miles northwest; miles southeast; miles southwest; miles square; miles west; modern legislation; pointing upward; prussic acid; report from; this body; triumphal entry; upon which