half-a-mile

We go down hill to it for half a mile, and it is a pity, for it would not be an ill-looking place if it had a better approach.

He had Will Scarlett, his head man, armed in like fashion and out rousing the serfs while Guy and his hand were still half a mile distant.

He was landed from the boat, within half a mile of the castle, and rewarded his towers with a guilder , to their great satisfaction.

As soon as he'd cut the express car off, he made the engineer run her up the track about half a mile to a road crossing.

Half a mile farther on, near the top of a rise, he looked back. Now it looked exactly like a barracks again.

It was the first call to arms, and it took place in an unpretentious white middle-class house half a mile from Spengler's office.

Only a picket post half a mile out, on the railroad, and a single sentinel at this end of the bridge.

Even when a search plane circled half a mile away, it was easy to miss a gray truck buried in snow.

The leading group of three continued to gain on the rest of the runners and were soon half a mile clear of them.

When he arrived, he had walked half a mile to a bus station by himself and had been greeted by a handful of relatives.

Fifteen hundred of the emperor's largest horses were used to pull me to the city. It was half a mile away.

He had been checking a farmhouse half a mile away from the Van Metre home, a farmhouse he thought was empty.

It was very tiring work , and it kept me busy so that I did not look up and see the Hispaniola until she was just half a mile away from me !

Rooster tells of his meeting with a 90-foot giant ( "Just off the A14 outside Upavon. About half a mile from the Little Chef" ).

On Tuesday, the company received permits to drill a relief well, which would be started half a mile from the current well site.

Now, Miss Crawford, if you will look up the walk, you will convince yourself that it cannot be half a mile long, or half half a mile.

The miners are being hoisted to the surface in a capsule through half a mile of rock.

Latham made another attempt a week later and got within half a mile of Dover, but he was unlucky again.

Indeed, the scent is unmistakable even half a mile from the General Mills factory along the Buffalo river.

Herbert: In fact the hotel is situated at least half a mile from the sea. Our room overlooked a car park . . .

Tell you what. If you go down that way, about half a mile, there's a village. Uhm, there might be somebody there that speaks English.

He was about to walk on, when he noticed on his left hand an unusual light appearing about half a mile distant.

Of the 6, 326 rocks the NEO Program has so far catalogued, at least 783 measure more than half a mile wide.

Also, about half a mile from her house is an old house, and my brother and cousins and I are convinced it's haunted.

Most of us get tired if we try to run half a mile without stopping, but a specially-trained person can do this without much effort.

Before long, she had traveled half a mile into the barren labyrinth between the hills of sand.

Molly's daily bulletins from the house half a mile away had consisted of nothing but Tommy.

She rode her bike half a mile home and told her mother, Mandy Potter.

In all honesty, I was dead tired by the time I spotted a hazy glow half a mile away, cutting through the darkness of the waters.

The nearest parking space was half a mile away, and then, to add insult to injury, it began to pour.

The engineer had disappeared to the north of the shore, and nearly half a mile from the place where the castaways had landed.

Keep on past the bank; the hospital is about half a mile further on.

You mark a tree and walk half a mile and back in every direction -- no one, nothing.

An estimated two tons of material wasthrown into a plume which reached a height of more than half a mile.

The row of neat little bungalows stretched ahead ofhim on his right for a half a mile, and then it was fields.

Half a mile an hour! Dinner won't be coming for quite a while!

HALF a mile west of Brighton's jolly Palace Pier, the skeleton of the old West Pier stands in the sea.

The log fell into the bog with a splash that could be heard half a mile away .

The service road ran parallel to the busy East Imperial Highway, less than half a mile away.

They rode like this towards the mountains for half a mile or so.

Made of iron and copper ore, the newfound chimneys are half a mile (0. 8 kilometer) deeper than any previously discovered black smokers.

They survived like that for the first 17 days, cut off from a world that had given them up for dead a half a mile under the Earth's surface.

One river, discovered underneath the Black Sea, is up to 115ft deep in places and more than half a mile wide.

The river here spreads out to a width of half a mile .

some places we visited had lines half a mile long, and that's despite fears of possibility of tribal violence.

Then someone else hunting in the car forest told her others had been dragged much farther, all the way to the mall about half a mile away.

He followed along a barbed wire fence for a half a mile and then started calling their names.

Then go down Fulton. For maybe half a mile. You'll see Maryland Avenue on your left.

rare indeed are the places like Cannes and Tel Aviv which pipe it even half a mile offshore.

He couldn't see anything in the swirling mud and was carried half a mile inland, wedged against a tree when the waters ebbed.

He says there's another inn just half a mile down the road from the Watermill.

When you moved in 40 years ago, the sea was half a mile away and a selling point.

As the weather was fine, they had a pleasant walk of about half a mile across the park.

the rangoon was moored half a mile off in the harbour , its signal of departure hoisted at the mast - head.

The wide river of ice had retreated more than half a mile, leaving a field of separated ice pinnacles melting into the rocky ground.

The village of Moonfleet lies half a mile from the sea on the right or west bank of the Fleet stream.

The older we get, the busier we become, and the less we see of each other, even though we live only half a mile apart.

From a nearby hamlet, half a mile away, comes a happy clanking of cooking-pots and children's shrieks.

Well, all the same stuff as in the Apple store half a mile away on Regent Street.

Its distinctive smell can be detected from half a mile away.

The 33 Chilean miners trapped almost half a mile underground probably never dreamed they'd have much in common with astronauts.

The Louvre stretches almost half a mile (0. 8 kilometers) along the River Seine, farther than two Eiffel Towers laid end to end.

Tom Briggs' farm was about half a mile away, near the river. It was not a big farm, and the house was old and dirty.

Our next obstacle was a shallow pool of water about half a mile across.

The fleet lay at anchor half a mile off the headland.

The explanation for these warnings lies about half a mile away in Holcomb's local park.

He knew that he could not crawl half a mile.

May we not go a little way--half a mile, Ellen: only just half a mile?

And then I took off the minimalist Fivefinger shoes, and ran completely barefoot for half a mile.

and to build a concrete highway, half a mile wide and one foot thick, from New York to San Francisco.

The humps range from about half a mile to a mile high.

I started out by running about half a mile, heavily winded after doing so.

Visibility temporarily down to half a mile reason fog.

For about half a mile the gamekeeper was led a swift and difficult chase.

Both the PackBot and the Warrior are remote-controlled from a distance of 800 meters (about half a mile).

He drove about half a mile before stopping at a meadow.

His old house is half a mile down the road.

He must be half-a-mile away by now.

It is only half a mile at (the) most.

This occupies about half a mile of prime real estate along the third ring road.

Her house is half a mile down the road.

The demonstrators were driven back by about 30 teargas canisters , but regrouped to face police lines about half-a-mile.

It's a big bastard. . . half a mile long. Most of that is engine and fuel, though the fuel tanks are almost empty.

The Pont du Gard is a huge aqueduct half a mile long that was built nearly two thousand years ago.

Barbara struggled forward for about half a mile.

Some doubted it could come more than half a mile inland.

We could see them for half a mile across the desert.

The cheering could be heard half a mile away.

In the dazzling, clear mornings, in the brilliant, cloudless afternoons, children play in the park, barely half a mile from me.

The Clarkson family lived in the country near Cambridge, about half a mile from the nearest village and about a mile from the river.

At one point vehicles were moving half-a-mile a day with some drivers taking five days to clear it.

He claimed to walk half a mile for every page he writes.

Half a mile from home the car was ambushed by Taliban gunmen.

Follow this path back for about half a mile.

The nearest house was half a mile away.

place was only half a mile from our house.

He hadn't climbed half a mile of white fell-side to the doorless barn where his patient lay.

The rabbits could not bear him; they could smell him half a mile off.

She is but half a mile away at Uppercross with her sister.

She runs half a mile each morning.

Go straight ahead for half a mile.

and got within half a mile of Dover.

I could see the other car about half a mile ahead of.

We walk half a mile everyday.

Diana Sterling lived in the Back Bay, only half a mile from your residence.

It's about half a mile away.

The river is half a mile.

Swim sb half a mile.

s about half a mile.

It is half a mile away.

The park spans almost half a mile in length.

There are 1, 300 bicycles for them to ride since it is more than half a mile from one end of an assembly line to the other.

You run across old friends every day, but you usually miss them by half a mile or by a couple of minutes.

The leg muscles you're guaranteed to develop from walking half a mile to class every day.

We walk half a mile every day.

When I go to school, I go along the London Road for half a mile.

As for the first, though we were about half a mile away, we could hear them roaring and singing late into the night;

they came to a river about half a mile wide

within half a mile of the park