A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters.
1 The English statute mile , now obsolete in this country, is indeed just over 1,600 metres.
2 The Survey has also engraved a map of Dublin City on the enormous scale of five feet to a statute mile .
3 Divide the knots by the same decimal, and it gives the statute miles .
4 The English land league is equal to three English statute miles .
5 The axis of this band, almost a meadian line, is 156 statute miles long.
6 That was by far our best day until then, it's well over 60 statute miles .
7 The river route to Philadelphia is twenty-nine statute miles .
8 The First Return Party covered approximately 1100 statute miles .
9 The distances are given in British statute miles .
10 All the sledge-meters gave seventeen geographical miles, or thirty-one kilometres (nineteen and a quarter statute miles ) .
11 By the way, Louis, multiply the number of statute miles by .87, and it gives you the sea-miles.
12 It joins the great river from the north shore, about one hundred and thirty-four statute miles below Quebec.
13 They returned 721 statute miles and perished 177 miles from their winter quarters.
14 We have done nearly 23 statute miles to-day, pulling 160 lbs.
15 The distance is fourteen statute miles and there are two small lakes about five miles from the north side.
16 Across the entrance of Delaware Bay, from southern end of New Jersey, is a distance of twelve statute miles .
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