1.   After they left Koju and I set up a tent a quarter of a mile from the village.

2.   All they could afford was a room in a second-rate hotel about a mile from the beach.

3.   Balconies and window boxes along canyon walls maintained refugia of plants and animals hundreds of miles from their core distributions.

4.   I wanted to go out collecting fossils at a place about a mile from here.

5.   In those days it was a picturesque village a couple of miles from the pleasant and compact town.

6.   Los Alamos was located in the high desert miles from Santa Fe and was surrounded by a barbed-wire fence.

7.   Spurn is a long thin peninsula, jutting three-and-a-half miles out from the North Humberside mainland.

8.   The department occupies an office just a mile from the White House.