It lay just beyond the canyon's northern border, no more than six miles from where Schmidt stood.

Indeed, it lay a good two or three miles distant.

Maybe some kind of security check, which made sense considering what lay thirty miles up the road.

Dall Island lay two miles away across the channel to the west.

The man had never seen it, although it lay only twenty miles to the north.

The nearest town lay thirty miles to the east.

The fairgrounds lay nine miles to the west, but he wasn't going to cover the entire distance on foot.

Yet the target lay less than six miles ahead of him.

She lays ten miles out and lobs in heavy fire.

The settlements of the Picts all lay many miles to the east.