Sentence examples for mere miles from inspiring English sources

But given that the vineyards are mere miles away, it's a wine drinkers' paradise.

Moving an entire community to a safer location mere miles away can cost anywhere from $80m to upwards of $250m.

He launched his general election campaign at the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi, mere miles from where white supremacists had infamously murdered three civil rights workers in 1964.

President Trump, on his recent trip to Europe, reportedly declared the Germans "bad, very bad" on trade; Greer's City Hall sits mere miles from a BMW automobile plant that employs about 8,800 people.

I've included it because many people assume the city will see a total solar eclipse, when in fact, the difference between seeing a partial vs. total eclipse will be a matter of mere miles from the city center.

Fittingly, members served under an unfinished Capitol dome – construction on the cast-iron edifice began in 1855 and would not be completed until 1863 – at once a symbol of republican government striving to rise up just as fierce fighting mere miles south on the battlefields of Virginia, and elsewhere, sought to tear it down.

Condoleezza Rice has moved from the White House to Foggy Bottom, a mere mile or so away.

In her study, substituting a mere mile per week of normal running at the start with one in minimal shoes "was probably too much," she says.

I've gone camping in Green-Wood Cemetery on Memorial Day weekend, sleeping in a tent in the rain a mere mile from my own dry bed.

And when Thoreau became determined to get away from it all in 1845, he retired to Walden Pond, a mere mile-and-a-half away from the nearest village.

Hut hounds, meanwhile, scowl and scoff at the Lonesome Lake Hut because it is within a mere mile and a half of a road (though not the way we came).