square mile

collocation in English

meaningsofsquareandmile

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square
adjective
uk
/skweər/us
/skwer/
having the shape of ...
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mile
noun
uk
/maɪl/us
/maɪl/
a unit of distance equal to 1,760 yards or ...
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(Definition ofsquareandmilefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsquare mile

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The latter did not penetrate the ground except in one area of about onesquaremilewhere the rain was heavier.
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They seemed to be successful because their ambitions were so restricted, and the losses they incurred persquaremilegained were actually greater.
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According to census figures, its population in 2000 was 34,325 with a density of just 70 people persquaremile.
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Now, in 1987, an average of 155 million shares a day are traded on a network of 3,000 terminals over a six millionsquaremiletrading floor.
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Mailo land was provided insquaremileunits (the origin of the term 'mailo land').
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Ghazipur similarly had experienced a rise in the population till 1891 which reached 737.3 persquaremilebut it declined from 1891 onwards.
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Short (1978) estimated the population density of these two species to be about three pairs persquaremile(1.9 km-2).
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Erecting a perimeter fence around a 640 acre (onesquaremile) block in the 1860s would cost from £60 (brush fence) to £220 (post and wire fence).
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In the summer, especially in dry summers, thesquaremileof water held back will have an average retention time of up to 50 days.
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I see the problem, for the walled city is well under asquaremileand suffers from the simple sardine effect.
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At present, forestry employs four times as many people to thesquaremileas hill sheep farming and the sporting use of land.
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The deposit of strontium 90 before the first major thermo-nuclear test was 2 milli-curies persquaremile.
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To assume that readings may indicate an actual fall in tons on asquaremilecan, of course, be fallacious.
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We are told by statisticians that the burning of raw coal means that 200 to 500 tons of smoke dust fall annually persquaremile.
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There are densities of up to 100 to 200 to thesquaremileand then huge areas of unoccupied, or very sparsely occupied, areas.
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It is onesquaremile, which is a very small space when dealing with a gas like sulphur dioxide.
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It is obvious that if we put the limit at 740 to thesquaremile, we should get cases in which there were 741.
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We are proud of our underground system here but it is obviously not sufficient, and we want more stations and lines persquaremile.
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The density is about 650 persons persquaremileof land suitable for arable cultivation.
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