Unit of length derived from the international yard.
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Examples for "miles "
Examples for "miles "
1 The race is always two miles ; 16 minutes is considered good time.
2 He said: We are not a million miles away from that situation.
3 Traveled four miles ; came to the snow; continued about four miles further.
4 They were now in the actual wilderness, miles and miles from civilization.
5 It was still distant, abstract: battles at sea thousands of miles off.
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 The race is always two miles ; 16 minutes is considered good time.
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.
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