Unit of length derived from the international yard.
Sinònims
Examples for "miles"
Examples for "miles"
1The race is always two miles; 16 minutes is considered good time.
2He said: We are not a million miles away from that situation.
3Traveled four miles; came to the snow; continued about four miles further.
4They were now in the actual wilderness, miles and miles from civilization.
5It was still distant, abstract: battles at sea thousands of miles off.
1Within a mere ten-mile sea front four dioceses reach to the ocean.
2Two years ago there were no dairy farmers within a three-mile radius.
3Then, in 2013, the new two-mile approach was found from the north.
4Even within the five-mile circle the great majority of people were inert.
5The race is always two miles; 16 minutes is considered good time.
1The English statute mile, now obsolete in this country, is indeed just over 1,600 metres.
2The Survey has also engraved a map of Dublin City on the enormous scale of five feet to a statute mile.
3Divide the knots by the same decimal, and it gives the statute miles.
4The English land league is equal to three English statute miles.
5The axis of this band, almost a meadian line, is 156 statute miles long.
Translations for imperial mile