| His writings state the abbey founded a large farmstead, or grange, and a water mill 20 miles away near Wharram Percy, south of Malton. |
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| A sharp metallic clang could be heard, echoing throughout the whole forest stirring up many different animals from even miles away. |
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| But scarcely 20 miles away, a new four-lane toll road is a giant step backward. |
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| He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away. |
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| Sometimes he would get that faraway look, like he was a million miles away. |
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| She's moved a few miles away from my patch and asked if I would still collect her payments, because she was used to me calling. |
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| His family had moved from a smaller house a few miles away right before he entered seventh grade. |
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| On July 10, India launched its new, long-range Agni III missile from the Orissa Coast which fell short of its intended target 1800 miles away. |
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| When, many hours later, the plane was still a few miles away from Heathrow, the captain would have lowered the wheels of the aircraft. |
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| He points out that they often find their finished product a million miles away from the original concept. |
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| It was quite common for an individual to own an eighth of a share of one field and a nineteenth of yet another, perhaps two miles away. |
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| Like sheet lightning, these flashes are created by lightning bolts, but are in thunderstorms more than 10 miles away. |
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| Placing an object face upwards so as to be visible to a friend a hundred miles away would be to put it in the public sphere. |
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| His eyes peered through the fog that had surrounded the tiny building, more than 100 miles away. |
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| The most distant objects in the universe are about a hundred billion trillion miles away. |
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| Do we really want all our favorite things thousands of miles away or do we duplicate or triplicate everything? |
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| Flashes of lightning can illuminate entire clouds, making them visible from miles away. |
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| It stands on a rocky shoreline on the southern coast of Gibraltar, just a few miles away from the African continent. |
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| Elizabeth Cohen updates us on a young Louisiana boy and how he touched the hearts of people thousands of miles away. |
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| Its trunk allows an elephant to lift a log weighing a ton or more, shell a peanut, and detect odors up to five miles away. |
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| At this point the battleship King George V was only 200 miles away and closing fast. |
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| Why did my mom have to pretend that she wasn't worried sick about the fact that her daughter was thousands of miles away? |
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| I argued that he's not evil, he's just the bad guy in the black hat, who you see coming a million miles away. |
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| A deadly black widow spider crawled into a shipping crate in the United States and ended its journey some 5,000 miles away in mid-Essex. |
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| But I live over 30 miles away and their idea of a good time is going to the local bars and getting bladdered. |
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| The troops would be dropped at a site seven miles away, losing any element of surprise. |
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| Only a year ago, he unveiled a memorial to another fallen Manchester policeman just three miles away. |
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| I've just spoken to Sasha, twenty miles away in London, where it is snowing. |
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| These days, it is rare I get to spend Mother's Day with my mum, who lives some 200 miles away in Edinburgh. |
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| With just 270 bedrooms on site, the media circus of several thousand will have to be housed as much as 50 miles away. |
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| Biologists can hear blue whales blow at the surface from several miles away, often before they can see them. |
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| I blow in when I can from my home 400 miles away, thankful for every chance to share the wonder and mystery and blessing of these last days. |
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| Just a few miles away, on the warm rocky shores and mudflats of the Bay of Panama, life-forms are markedly different. |
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| He died a broken man and was buried only a couple of miles away from his birthplace. |
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| In 1883, Krakatoa's volcano exploded so violently that the sound was said to have been heard 3,000 miles away. |
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| Her body washed up on a beach 20 miles away from Nazare last Saturday and a funeral was held last Wednesday. |
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| The urban skyline rises above trees in the distance, though it might as well be 50 miles away. |
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| Built on a wooded spur above the town, the chapel is visible from almost six miles away. |
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| Veterans are disappointed if not a little angered by the dither and delay which means the collection is now going 100 miles away. |
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| It is has been really relaxing and all the mundane hassles of normal day-to-day life seem a million miles away. |
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| To his horror, he saw the mushroom cloud of a tremendous explosion about fifty miles away. |
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| Those that are arrested are often sent unescorted to Croydon because the nearest immigration office is 60 miles away in Harwich, north Essex. |
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| A few miles away insurgents sniped at U.S. forces and clashes erupted across the city. |
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| My copilot quickly punched in the latitude and longitude, and we turned toward the position, 40 nautical miles away. |
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| Fitzpatrick camped a comfortable three miles away and rode over to parley with the chief. |
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| A thunderous boom suddenly sounded from miles away, accompanied by a miniscule quake. |
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| Where we stayed there are no buses, no taxis, no trains, and the nearest pub is five miles away along unlighted, pitch-black roads. |
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| The Festival is finally abandoned after the confirmed outbreak just five miles away puts the track within an exclusion zone. |
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| So he fled that very night, running many miles away from his master, and jumped onto a ship bound for Britain. |
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| Is it that highly sought-after swing voter, watching the news coverage from an arm chair hundreds of miles away? |
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| He has the memoirs of people living thousands of miles away, who heard and recorded hearing distant naval gunnery. |
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| Because we do not claim benefits we do not qualify for the local nursery in my street and will have to use a private one a few miles away. |
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| I guess one of the wonders of technology is the capacity to lay a passive-aggressive guilt trip on me from 10,000 miles away. |
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| The closest railhead was hundreds of miles away and, in those early days of aviation, an air drop was out of the question. |
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| Watching silent twisters at a distance was far different from watching a giant roaring twister stalk them from less than three miles away. |
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| Remarkably, the polished jet fastener must have been traded from Whitby in Yorkshire, more than 200 miles away. |
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| At 24, I had quit my job, packed up everything I owned into the back of my Volkswagen, and moved 1000 miles away for no good reason. |
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| Only the moon and the stars provided me with light, and considering they are both millions of miles away it was only a dim, and weak light. |
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| Unexpectedly, a large emperor penguin came sliding in from miles away to watch us. |
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| One false move would activate the bomb and Jason didn't like the idea of disarming a bomb that could easily eliminate life miles away. |
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| Strong winds from 433 miles away had carried the smoke and acrid smell of forest fires all the way here. |
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| He is better than he was, but it was difficult for him to even make it here, and he only lives a couple of miles away. |
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| Mrs Cook added that horses have acute hearing and can often hear a helicopter, and sense a disturbance in the air, from miles away. |
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| They are not a million miles away from being good enough to lift a trophy or break into the top six or seven in the league. |
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| Several miles away, in a small cottage, a woman surveyed the devastation surrounding her. |
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| The Soviet-made surface-to-air missiles were fired from fields eight miles away. |
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| No provisions were made for these children as their parents were carted 70 miles away to a detention center to await deportation. |
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| It is a million miles away from the romantic shots of steam trains puffing their way across rural landscapes that most of us are used to. |
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| He watched as it began descending and landed miles away from where they stood. |
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| A few miles away in a near-town neighborhood of lower-middle-class A-frames, several houses are decorated in familiar placards. |
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| After another hour of travel, we finally saw a sign reading that the town of Tol is five more miles away. |
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| A homing pigeon can find its way back to its loft from nearly a thousand miles away. |
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| Some 17 days passed before her badly decomposed body was found, 20 miles away. |
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| We can't seem to pry ourselves away from the daily workplace routine even if we're thousands of miles away. |
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| Natural growths of wild grass of a different species were pollinated by the gene-modified grass nearly nine miles away. |
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| The editor then changed Webb's status from investigative reporter and reassigned him to a distant bureau, miles away from his family. |
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| There seems to be an air of unreality, as though the war were a million miles away. |
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| Its 205 pupils will be bussed to a school 13 miles away while the building is rebuilt. |
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| Why do some people make such a damnably disgusting munching sound when they eat that can be heard miles away? |
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| When news of the kill reached the Indians on the beach, they organized a celebration at their community centre seven miles away. |
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| These mostly 20-somethings are a million miles away from gilded superclubbers and heroin chic. |
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| A fat lot of good that is to a traveller who would be many miles away by the time it got there. |
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| The seaside town was more than 70 miles away and they did not arrive until the early hours. |
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| Thursday we formed up the cars and drove to Colonial Williamsburg, maybe two miles away. |
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| He's cute, dead sexy, funny as all get out, smart, single, and he lives 2,000 miles away. |
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| And their most cherished possession is a grand piano that spent most of its long life 5,000 miles away. |
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| Several years ago I found a store just three miles away that sold only lamps and lamp shades. |
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| Its language and style remain miles away from the day-to-day concerns of ordinary black South Africans. |
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| In Warwick, only 75 miles away, these activities are all deemed acceptable farming uses under the zoning code. |
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| The next night we were miles away from anything even remotely resembling a resort. |
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| About two miles away and once connected by an ancient colonnaded paved road is the largest existing Roman hippodrome found in the world. |
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| The latest high-tech security gadgets mean you can keep watch on your home even when you're hundreds of miles away. |
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| This would be a short time to arrange cover and transport had I been in the UK, but I was 10 500 miles away. |
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| It's a movement full of goofy stumbles, miles away from the suavity of Mozart and Classicism. |
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| On a four-acre elevated site sloping to the road, the courtyard commands a fine view over farmland to the sea, less than two miles away. |
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| From 230,000 miles away, the moon's gravity pulls the Earth, dragging the ocean outwards in a bulge of water that creates a tide. |
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| Stewy was discovered just before midnight, in a flower bed in the garden of Shaz's house four miles away. |
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| Wireless calls can be received by a number of different antennas miles away from the caller. |
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| The cornettist's unbroken, dynamic swing and advanced bebop melodics are miles away from Don Cherry's fractured lyricism. |
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| Taxis are available for the ride into town, which lies just three miles away. |
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| The town of Whistler lies 15 miles away, just over the summit of 7,639-foot Rainbow Mountain. |
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| As Newry's push for city status reaches fever pitch, a forgotten city lies merely 10 miles away from the frontier town. |
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| Most of the luggage was already packed into a rented limousine that would take them to the Los Angeles International Airport, several miles away. |
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| When the local topography permits, you can see lightning and the associated storm cloud from anywhere up to 200 miles away. |
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| Descended from wild rock doves, homing pigeons can locate their lofts, or roosts, even when released several thousand miles away. |
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| Almost simultaneously her lookouts sighted a large fishing vessel listing heavily about five miles away. |
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| In this case, we saw a demo that appeared to send data from a 50mW base station, using an omnidirectional antenna, to a receiver 18 miles away. |
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| Our centre had even captured the third enemy line, while the army on the left wing was in full career and now miles away to the west. |
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| I used to live under the Heathrow flight path, just a few miles away from the airport. |
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| I sailed on towards Wellington Harbour 70 miles away, saved only by the branches of a willow tree trailing mercifully within arm's reach. |
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| They organized bus caravans Aug. 31 to take the arrivals to Metairie, 16 miles away, where a food and water distribution center had been set up. |
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| They have an office in Balma, Southern France, about 500 miles away from a beautiful, fashionable and happening Paris. |
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| At the end of the day, we intend moving only 20 miles away, as the crow flies. |
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| In favourable atmospheric conditions it was reported to be heard ten or 12 miles away. |
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| The accident happened at Oakworth after the vehicle was followed by police from Oxenhope four miles away. |
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| He lured both girls into his car under the guise he was a punter and then drove them several miles away. |
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| It is thought faulty cordite caused the series of explosions which tore through the ship, raining debris down up to four miles away. |
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| But instead, he was kicking his heels in frustration 12,000 miles away at his home in the suburbs of Sydney. |
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| Meanwhile, more than 8,000 miles away in Mongolia, another egg surprise was cooking. |
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| Rogue waves that occur on relatively calm seas are usually generated by storms hundreds of miles away. |
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| It goes on like this most of the way to the ocean, 40 miles away, with bays and pocosins wherever there's a dip. |
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| They talked as they ate, discussing the journey and their comrades who were currently plundering another village a few miles away. |
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| Both begin to doubt their sanity and their ability to stay any closer then 100 miles away from each other. |
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| One could feel the magnetic pull of the Bay Area from 150 miles away, as traffic thickened in the standing heat. |
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| Not many miles away another little ship was slipping through the water, fitfully tacking against the contrary wind, seeking an easterly path. |
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| A sister who is also a good friend goes from being 40 miles away to being so physically distant she is awake when you're asleep. |
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| Some students move in and then realise the nearest bus stop is three miles away. |
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| I ended up in Dyce, which is a nice part of the town, granted, but it's about four miles away from my house. |
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| Sicilian food is nothing like the food of Tuscany, while Sardinian cooking is a million miles away from the cuisine of Emilia Romagna. |
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| The so-called sarsen stones, each weighing as much as fifty tons, came from Marlborough Downs, twenty miles away. |
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| He has gone to his pleasance, a place six miles away, where he will celebrate the festivities. |
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| In the 1800s, brilliant fields of native California poppies were so dense that sailors could spot them from the coast 30 miles away. |
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| Those tea chests suggested hot, exotic countries many miles away and gave me my first intimation of the lure of foreign travel. |
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| He was eventually released 25 miles away in a quiet country lane in Northwich, Cheshire, in the dead of night. |
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| Then the cyber-surgery unit, guided by a telesurgeon miles away, whirs into action. |
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| The Canadian telesurgeon has performed more than two dozen telesurgeries from Ontario on patients who are nearly 250 miles away. |
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| Just a few miles away from Woolacombe stands Arlington Court, a Georgian manor house set in acres of rolling Devonshire parkland. |
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| Thirty miles away, the lofty peaks appeared sugar coated under their mantle of winter snow. |
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| An early morning fire broke out two blocks from the church, with fire companies from up to 40 miles away responding. |
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| My divorced parents lived 1700 miles away, my FIL lives 3000 miles away, and my MIL lives 100 miles away. |
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| The result is that dwindling numbers of children are bussed to distant schools where they mingle with others who live many miles away. |
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| He added that the smells could be got up to three miles away and there was no doubt the company had breached the conditions with regard to smell. |
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| Newly-erected wind turbines on the Braes of Doune, Perthshire are visible 10 miles away in Bannockburn. |
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| You can hear those guys from miles away and that's why there is such an outpouring of people. |
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| He would then park the cars a few miles away before returning days later to check the coast was clear before selling the vehicle on. |
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| Towering above the frankly nondescript suburbs of a frankly nondescript town, the Big Swan stadium was visible from miles away. |
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| Huge crowds jammed the concourse outside the dome hoping to get on the buses to the Astrodome in Houston, 350 miles away. |
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| On the same road, eight miles away, a 55-year-old man was killed in a three-car pile-up a few minutes later. |
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| It served as the seaport of the inland town of Philippi, which was about 10 miles away. |
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| We feel we are tantalizing close to a complete unified theory, but we might be miles away or barking up the wrong tree. |
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| The ship sent out the Mayday signal early yesterday morning when it was about 33 nautical miles away. |
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| The Park Service provided all ground transportation, including pickup from the Airport, 30 miles away. |
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| I ask where they are based and nine times out of ten they are in a country many miles away. |
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| You can be stuck in a hotel, a thousand miles away in a different time zone, and it is never glamorous. |
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| The horse, visible from many miles away across the Vale of York, is 340 feet long and 228 feet high, and covers about an acre. |
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| It's kind of hard not to think of the bigger picture when a destroyer and an aircraft carrier are docked in the bay a few miles away. |
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| I began making phone calls and located a physiatrist and plastic surgeon in Long Beach, CA, more than 250 miles away. |
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| Could these be the same birds that every year turn up hundreds of miles away along the desert coast just in time for the sea lion pupping season? |
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| Which is especially unglamorous for me as I grew up about 10 miles away from there and it was the nearest big town, so I know everything there is to know about it. |
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| I knew they had seen a kit of pigeons over the town eight miles away. |
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| If someone finds a great spot to set up camp miles away, they can alert friends from other groups. |
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| We go off boozing a couple of times a summer, go to some fancy restaurant fifty miles away. |
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| She planned to use her work lunch break to see her doctor in burley, about nine-and-a-half miles away. |
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| They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, and for Colchester troops returning from peace-keeping duties 3,500 miles away from home it seems to be true. |
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| The stone was quarried 30 miles away in Kilkenny and crafted in Stradbally, with much of the work being done by past pupils of Scoil Mhuire Fatima. |
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| Scientists have calculated that the European jewel beetle Melanophila acuminata, about 1 cm. in length, can detect a 25-acre forest fire from 7.5 miles away. |
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| Here is an enchanted world, a sanctuary for humans as much as for animals, in which the niggling concerns of our quotidian existence seem thousands of miles away. |
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| Now a government minister has announced that readings will instead be taken from a Met Office weather station 12 miles away high on the hills at Wood head. |
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| In this war, the targeting is often happening on computer monitors thousands of miles away, capturing images from drones. |
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| The RNC leased 450 buses to shuttle delegates between hotels as far as 30 miles away to the convention center. |
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| They ended four hours and a couple hundred miles away in Virginia, succumbing to the normal internal tensions and apathy, the all-too-common whimper instead of a bang. |
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| The clocks had gone forward that week, which meant she had to cover a very short distance in the dark to catch the bus to San Miguel, a few miles away. |
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| And a third is that we all paused a second to look at the red glow over Baltimore, 35 miles away as the crow flies. |
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| Although the preponderance of thunderstorm effects are found directly under the storm, hail and wind shear have been documented more than 20 miles away. |
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| In midafternoon we actually felt the detonation of two bombs a couple of miles away. |
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| The eruption produced a cloud of steam and ash that wreathed the 3,000 ft Stromboli mountain and a tidal wave that rocked ships in ports more than 100 miles away. |
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| How do you reserve a hotel room at a place that is miles away? |
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| Her propeller shaft was fouled and she was dragging her anchor, so Endurance, some 25 miles away when the call went out, closed in at top speed to act as on-scene commander. |
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| This presentation of a society in which racism is everywhere and in everybody is a million miles away from the traditional understanding of racism and anti-racism. |
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| The film gets better as it goes on, but it turns into a rather conventional romantic comedy, and you can see the romantic pairing from miles away. |
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| Only five minutes from the rivers of tourist tack around the station, but miles away in spirit, this tiny store perches on a corner near the top of the Canale di Cannaregio. |
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| And miles away from the hospital is this tiny Masai settlement. |
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| In 1948 he and a group of friends from his rarefied social circle started Mad River Glen about 25 miles away, vowing to preserve their creation from all taint of vulgarity. |
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| Come daybreak, the atoll was about three miles away and had rough water. |
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| Part of your mind was focussing on the road, but you were miles away. |
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| The driver was unaware the load was leaking and was only stopped by police as the tanker approached the slip road at junction 5 of the M65, several miles away. |
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| Sure, this album is miles away from free jazz, and I apologize for it, but I also have my sentimental side which appreciates top level mainstream jazz. |
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| Air speeds of a few thousand miles an hour are of little use in the exploration of planets scores of million miles away, let alone solar systems light years beyond our own. |
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| The first blocks to be explored are just a few miles away from Britain's proven Foinaven and Shiehallion fields, across a maritime border agreed by treaty two years ago. |
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| Each night, the citizens of Los Angeles commit atrocities on each other which rival the most violent screenplays from the film studios a few miles away. |
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| It was visible from the mastheads of ships some 12 miles away. |
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| The technician on the other end is probably in a laboratory a thousand miles away. |
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| Like most Decembers in the northern United States, the weather was bitterly cold, and Burdick struggled emotionally because she was over 150 miles away from her family. |
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| I was certain people could hear it from a bazillion miles away. |
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| We then departed for a wooded spot a few miles away, where we bedded down in the brush for the night, hoping to regain contact with our colleagues in the morning. |
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| The absent star of the summit grew up 10 miles away in Le Havre, on the Normandy coast. |
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| The sun was setting behind the massive new bridge that was being built a few miles away, and the sky had burst into varying colors of reds and oranges. |
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| Right now, thousands of miles away from his family in tora Prison, Greste is certainly grateful for the global support. |
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| Goran Rakonjac, for instance, uses horse-drawn farm carts on back roads to haul the soft white cheese from his family farm in Serbia to market 15 miles away in Montenegro. |
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| Her former boss, three thousand miles away in New York, was unaware of so many things. |
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| In the early 1920s, the Canadian government cut down hundreds of poles in Tsimshian villages and re-erected them miles away along the Canadian-Pacific Railway. |
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| Within 10 seconds, his target vanishes in a muted cloud of smoke and rubble 7,000 miles away. |
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| In contrast, areas 10 to 20 miles away from city hall gained roughly 15 million net residents. |
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| On my first day skiing at La Molina, Spain's oldest ski resort, I got a fantastic view across the Pyrenean foothills to the shores of the Mediterranean 60 miles away. |
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| This will be achieved by giving fewer pupils places at the school of their choice and sending them instead to some bog-standard comprehensive ten miles away. |
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| The scale, opulence and fantasy so prevalent a few miles away on the Strip is nowhere to be found. |
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| He is several hundred miles away, ambassadoring to a backwoods strip of nothing which as far as I am concerned deserves no more of Shakallor's attention than a botfly. |
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| The Ryder Cup is eight months and 7500 miles away from the Mercedes, where whales breach offshore, the trade winds blow and golf is anything but that long walk spoiled. |
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| We were negotiating to buy property a couple of miles away when four blocks of vacant land became available across the street from my other buildings. |
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| It's all very well to speak of patriotism, of duty and of vanquishing the forces of evil when you're safe in a bunker thousands of miles away from the possibility of action. |
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| Air filled out the parachute canopy above him and then, swinging on the gentle south-west wind, he landed near St Pancras Church less than two miles away. |
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| Here we are a nation just some islands and cays just 100 miles away from the richest superpower in the world, and we don't have running water everywhere. |
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| The pilot of the plane, which was flying from Santiago, Chile, to Auckland, New Zealand, reported seeing flaming space junk over the Pacific about five miles away. |
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| He proposed that they should spend the winter cutting brushwood on a hillside some miles away for sale as fuel, and that they should then save the proceeds for investment. |
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| Plouffe could stay inside the White House, close to potus, while still controlling a headquarters 700 miles away. |
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| But some of the park's neighbours have claimed the tower ride, which is visible from several miles away, is an eyesore and have called for its removal. |
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| More than 180 firefighters fought a blaze that melted cars and lorries, saw half the town evacuated and sent up a plume of smoke that was visible 15 miles away. |
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| Sure, there is a sandy Mediterranean beach a few miles away, and campsites, restaurants and bars catering for families on holiday in the new century. |
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| The retiree moved to another South Dakota town about 65 miles away to find some peace and quiet. |
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| A similar appeal has been made to off-licences and other shops selling alcohol, in a letter which has even gone to pubs as much as five miles away from the football stadium. |
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| The lanes around the Daffodil Lion swarmed with police, blocking all routes to the air base which was about two-and-a-half miles away in the next valley. |
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| The humpbacked gardener emptied the saucepan onto the roots of the flame trees, his favorites, and doused them with water drawn from the river several miles away. |
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| There I was describing Duncan as a failure in Finland, and thousands of miles away at Everton he rises like a phoenix from the ashes to score against Manchester United. |
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| In the ninth century, when Paris was invaded by the Norsemen, those great pillagers of tombs, her relics were taken for safety some fifteen miles away. |
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| Edward, who normally hears a pin drop three miles away, didn't even stir. |
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| While she was opening the Tupperware, I was feeding the inner man with bacon and scrambled eggs in the stylish dining room at Taplow House, a few miles away. |
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| A row has blown up over suggestions that a high-profile attempt to rebrand a Yorkshire city was simply copied from a similar campaign thousands of miles away. |
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| Fifteen miles away, its fraternal twin, Ball's Pyramid, towers to a height of 1,811 feet, so sheer it seems two dimensional to the people in boats which pass in its shadow. |
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| If you do, you are miles away from my opinion, for I hold that Homer no more dreamed of all this allegorical fustian than Ovid in his Metamorphoses dreamed of the Gospel. |
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| And part of the appeal is the startlingly crisp and fresh sound, a million miles away from the airbrushed fuzzy melange of most guitar bands these days. |
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| You must be prepared to leave the comfort of your home for a more primitive place in the country many miles away at which you will live and work for two months. |
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| It was thus, as the sun broke over a dewy Parisian morn, that I decided to put in a call to the Hotel Casterix, a mere nine miles away back in Paris proper. |
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| You could hear the great diesel-electric locomotive miles away, just as you could hear its steam-powered predecessor clattering through the lowlands of the Hills of Clare. |
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| The attack 11 days ago claimed the life of a deeply loved family friend and best man, who is being grieved here in Rochdale and by relatives 8,000 miles away in Australia. |
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| The president would begin by directing the U.S. Strategic Command to take a thousand warheads off its ICBMs and put them in storage not less than three hundred miles away. |
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| There are places in this country whose media outlets are disingenuously labeled with different names but owned by one corporation thousands of miles away. |
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| As the braying traders on the commodity exchanges in London and New York sold Rwanda's coffee and tin they were sealing the fate of peasants 6,000 miles away. |
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| Like a distant boom, as if someone was blasting dynamite miles away. |
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| A controversial salary proposed for the chief executive of a council only 40 miles away is double the wage paid to City of York Council's top executive. |
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| In 1797, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved to Alfoxton House, Somerset, just a few miles away from Coleridge's home in Nether Stowey. |
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| The airport lies a few miles away from the M1 motorway, which runs southwards to London, northwards to Leeds and connects to the M25 motorway. |
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| William and Susan transfer to schools at Winthwaite five miles away, a boy's grammar school and a county secondary school. |
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| Kay did so before returning to live a few miles away in his native Warrington. |
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| When it was finally built, it bypassed Olema, terminating, instead, two miles away. |
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| Young English people with eating disorders are sent hundreds of miles away to Scotland because the services they need are not available locally. |
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| If you just let him know you want him to go on the potty, or anything, he's miles away. |
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| From the pier head there are panoramic views across the Solent to Portsmouth four miles away. |
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| Did you seriously think that was gonna work? You magnificent chowderhead! I saw that coming miles away! |
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| The Number One tower soon found an alternative use as a replacement for the Nab Rock lightship, 40 miles away off Bembridge in the Isle of Wight. |
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| The first trial borings took place in 1865, under the direction of Lord Mostyn, owner of Mostyn Colliery, a few miles away. |
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| Llantrisant is served by Pontyclun railway station three miles away, which was formerly known as Llantrisant railway station. |
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| The nearest airport with international flights is Liverpool John Lennon Airport, 83 miles away by road. |
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| It runs generally parallel to Offa's Dyke, sometimes within a few yards but never more than three miles away. |
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| The closest town to the south of East Kilbride is Strathaven, about 7 miles away. |
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| Their exteriors, embedded with rough copper slag from a mine 70 miles away, echo the patina known as desert varnish on the petroglyphs. |
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| The most recent rape was on October 14 in Corinth, a few miles away. |
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| Instead, they were deployed more than 3,000 miles away, in Okinawa, Japan. |
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| The source of the impulse was an owl monkey at Duke University 600 miles away. |
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| Clarkston and Busby are also about 3 miles away to the west, with Thorntonhall much closer. |
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| Berwick as a borough council is going to be abolished and it would then be run from Morpeth, more than 30 miles away. |
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| While the Americans wintered only twenty miles away, Howe made no effort to attack their camp, which critics argue could have ended the war. |
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| Why should I worry about a man with a Tommy gun 2,000 miles away? |
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| It is said that at one time it was also possible to walk all the way to Baleshare, and on to North Uist, five miles away at low tide. |
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| If the only air tanker available is 300 miles away, it can still be over your fire in a fairly short period of time. |
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| Fleeing his master, he travelled to a port, two hundred miles away, where he found a ship and with difficulty persuaded the captain to take him. |
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| A Jew in Jerusalem did not belong to the same society as a Hellenist in Caesarea, only a hundred miles away. |
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| Francine sat in the glider on the porch, swinging lightly, her mind a thousand miles away. The chain squeaked a little, almost like a cricket. |
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| The priest, who is based 1,000 miles away at Colinas do Tocantins, said it was rare for him to go long distances by bus in Brazil. |
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| The pinnaces could not tie up alongside Campania at night, and had to be moored several miles away. |
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| The arch will support the biggest single span roof structure in the world and will be visible from Canary Wharf, 13 miles away. |
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| However, he did not attend the local Church of England school, instead being sent to Mr Last's school, three miles away. |
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| Chowing down on souvlaki and lamb kabobs is the ticket to transporting Olympic fans thousands of miles away to the Summer Games, it seems. |
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| Matt instead persuaded me to try Slovakia's biggest ski resort, Jasna, 60 miles away in the Low Tatras. |
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| Visa Business cards allow managers and business owners to keep track and be on top of things even if they are 10,000 miles away from the office. |
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| In some instances, they would deposit an offending sheepherder at one corner of the park and the herd at the other, 125 miles away. |
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| The explosion would have been seen from miles away, and heard from further away still. |
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| They might build one bomb and test it in a riverbed a few miles away. |
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| Just a few miles away lie the forts where the mercantilists once housed African slaves. |
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| However, the happy times still seem a million miles away, as Cindy continues to behave secretively, leaving Holly more worried than ever. |
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| The Weardale lonelyhearts decided to follow in the footsteps of Vince Peart, from Alston, Cumbria, just 12 miles away. |
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| The locavore movement is strong in Portland, with many restaurants boasting a menu made of ingredients from less than 50 miles away. |
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| A teenager reported missing from her Newcastle foster home for six days has been found 35 miles away in Alnwick. |
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| The idea, which has still to be rubber-stamped, is to lure as many supporters as possible from the city centre to a venue two miles away. |
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| On our sun-is-a-basketball scale, a light-year is approximately 1,000 miles, which puts Alpha-Centauri 4,300 miles away. |
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| The nearest barefoot doctor was three miles away, in my eldest sister's village. |
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| The satellite is now orbiting the second Lagrange Point, nearly a million miles away from the Earth. |
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| The Big Island offers the first landfall from the America mainland 2,400 miles away, followed by Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu and Kauai. |
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| It links overseas Chinese and their descendants to their heritage, even though they live thousands of miles away from their ancestral homelands. |
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| He is also running for mayor of Jerez, in the state of Zacatecas, some 2,000 miles away. |
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| After a time, fully two miles away, he saw sheep grazing on a thinly verdured slide. |
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| As someone who lives 30 miles away as the crow flies...from New York City, I could care less that New York City or New York State has a sense of jurisdiction. |
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| Nearby residents said the blast shook buildings and the fire sent up a pall of thick black smoke which could be seen six miles away in the town of Immingham. |
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| Police are linking the discovery to the death of another woman, whose body was found at a house about 10 miles away in Gustard Wood, also yesterday. |
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| When this happens, MF radio waves can easily be received many hundreds or even thousands of miles away as the signal will be reflected by the higher F layer. |
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| The break-in is almost identical to one at Ellington First School, near Morpeth, only 10 miles away, in which overhead projectors and computer equipment were also stolen. |
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| But, the genuine ones were made from ingots of crucible steel, which the Vikings brought back from furnaces thousands of miles away in modern Afghanistan and Iran. |
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| The closest beach is less than two miles away at Playa Blanca. |
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| In May 2017, glints of light, seen as twinkling from an orbiting satellite a million miles away, were found to be reflected light from ice crystals in the atmosphere. |
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| Back in 1958, Sedona residents decided the infrequent visits from a bookmobile that began its journey in Phoenix, some 100 miles away, just weren't enough. |
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| I like the blue theme running through the whole outfit, which is easy to wear and comfortable but still smart and a million miles away from my usual off-duty scruffiness. |
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