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Meanings of mile in English
A unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude.
A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters.
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Examples for "statute mile"
Examples for "statute mile"
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.
1
The ship averages something in the low 20's of our land miles- per-hour.
2
Twenty-five knots-twenty-eight land miles an hour-was the speed of the Plymouth at that moment.
3
Peto are both named for a big, fast mackerel with a cruising speed of 30 land miles per hour.
4
Making allowance for the longitudes and difference in time, this was an average daily run of 378 sea miles or 435 land miles.
Usage of mile in English
1
Within a mere ten-mile sea front four dioceses reach to the ocean.
2
Two years ago there were no dairy farmers within a three-mile radius.
3
Then, in 2013, the new two-mile approach was found from the north.
4
Even within the five-mile circle the great majority of people were inert.
5
An eighty-mile walk over the Sea of Rains was a sombre thought.
6
Although it was almost a mile away, it didn't look far enough.
7
Growth in RASM, or revenue per available seat mile, is clearly decelerating.
8
It was maybe a mile from my house, right on Route 116.
9
But it's been the best year of my career by a mile.
10
On their present course they will pass a mile to the north.'
11
He started his training, at age 28, with a simple two-mile run.
12
Tolliver saw a vehicle about a mile away, in the Russian area.
13
It's a two mile per hour tap at 150 miles an hour.
14
The fjord was in this place about half a mile in width.
15
A half-mile in front of the bridge was the town of Murfreesboro.
16
Why do political parties run a mile from legislating with appropriate safeguards?
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