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A quarter of a mile up in the sky someone was dancing.

When the bullet struck just a few inches above his head, i couldn't help saying to myself: a miss is as good as a mile.

Considering that nobody was so high within a ten-mile radius, she did not take any notice to the light openings any more.

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.

At the young age of fifteen, she broke the men's and women's records for her 33-mile swim across the English Channel .

It is cheaper to drive the motorcycle. the oil that the motorcycle used for a mile is less than other auto.

She had circled through a ploughed field for a mile until the light of the fires died out behind her.

If your man moves his mouth a mile a minute, 39 you're with a spontaneous, high-energy guy who may be a little too self-absorbed.

My Google car lost its internet connection near Elephant and Castle and I've had to run the last mile to the office.

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

He talked a mile-a-minute and was well into his sales pitch before I had any idea what it was that he was selling.

I want you to call the fire department and have them block off the city center in a one mile radius around the building!

so we started and soon got to it, because the island was only three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide.

On top of that was the 67-mile high-speed rail link, running through south London and Kent - the Garden of England.

The adult male was tangled in fishing nets about a mile out to sea. Divers think the whale may have been tangled there for up to two months.

Some declared the mysterious animal to be nearly two hundred feet long; others swore the monster was more than a mile long.

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.

Standing just under five feet tall, Joey was everyone's friend. His race was the long one-quarter-mile run, the full lap around the track.

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

It would be crazy to try to see the 15-mile coastline between Santa Monica and Redondo Beach on anything but a bike.

How the organisers are going to be able to set a mile-long sailing course is a real concern.

Give it a try and see how you can bridge the last mile of commerce and turn online researchers into offline buyers.

A decade earlier he had been a star, with a client waiting list a mile long.

We sat down to dinner every evening as a family, even if it meant waiting for Marvin to return from a ten or twelve mile run.

The Tigris River, only a mile from the camp, was one of the four rivers that flowed out of the biblical Garden of Eden.

Beyond the road was a thick young woods and through it a dimlighted path led a quarter of a mile.

"My parents have always gone the extra mile for me, " he said. "I knew if I asked, she'd say yes. . . . "

No one at the Dauphin County Civil Defense office knew what was going on. Pintek then decided to call Three Mile Island.

At the 31 mile mark I gave Andrei my bike, an easy to ride Gary Fisher Zebrano hybrid, so he could rest a bit.

She said police checkpoints were set up in a 17-mile radius around Ziketan, and residents were not allowed to leave.

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.

The price tag was one-third that of a new model , and the car came with a three- year , 36, 000- mile warranty .

One by one, they emerged through a swinging door, out of a pit a half-mile deep, pumping fists and hugging family. A great-grandfather.

Within a week he made the 245-mile round trip from his home in Perth up to me in the Highlands for our first date.

But he never told his mother he was working a half mile under the Earth's surface.

I am really not tired, which I almost wonder at; for we must have walked at least a mile in this wood. Do not you think we have?

It means that the nervous system is going a mile a minute just to keep up with its surrounding.

First, while mobile use for local information seems to be growing, the trend is still a mile wide and an inch deep.

She did. And it turned out her name was Holly and that her owners Jacob and Bonnie Richter lived just a mile away.

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.

Finally, I decided that I was ready to run the whole mile. Of course, I'd stop a few times along the route to rest.

He was the best and he could sniff out a sale a mile away. His skill in sales and sociology were not to be sneezed at .

A half-mile of it was as much as he could stand, and he weakened under the strain.

The "last mile" connection historically has referred to the twisted-pair copper wires used between a home and the telephone company.

He joked that he would not like to take Jacobson's challenge to reporters earlier in the day to a six-mile jog around the airport.

Mr. Chu said he believed the accident was 'more serious' than the 1979 partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania.

The wrapping paper was all twisted, and it was bound together into a shapeless mass by at least a mile of tape.

This measures how much it costs to move a ton - one nautical mile.

Despite tough traffic restrictions imposed a week ago to help reduce pollution. visibility was a half-mile in parts of the city.

I've been running a mile every afternoon for the past month, but I still have't been able to lose more than a pound or two.

When Wright died at ninety years of age, he had just finished the design for a mile-high office building (it was never built).

There was a small release of radioactive steam at Three Mile Island in 1979, and there have also been a few releases at Fukushima Daiichi.

Actually you'll need to go another half mile down East Washington. It's easy to see. Though. Once you get there.

If you run a nine-minute mile find the part of the pack that runs your pace, and that won't be at the front.

After about a mile of running the chicken ran up a farm lane and into a barn behind an old farm house.

Today, on an incredibly hot day, my flip flop broke, leaving me to walk barefoot on the hot asphalt for a mile and a half to my car. FML.

I walked as if for a wager, mile after mile, till a turn brought me in view of the Heights; but no Catherine could I detect far or near.

The fog was beginning to part, and a mile and a half away the enemy's troops could be indistinctly seen on the opposite heights.

First it was dark as a shoal in the blue water that was more than a mile deep. Then it spread like a cloud.

He crossed this bridge and made at least a couple of 90 degree turns before crashing just a mile and a half from school.

Ecstatic crowds immediately began to clamber on top of the Wall and hack large chunks out of the 28-mile (45-kilometre) barrier.

Heading to the US BP says a mile-long tube is funneling crude oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico into a tanker on the surface.

He had come up from deep down in the water as the dark cloud of blood had settled and dispersed in the mile deep sea.

He selected a fine 30-mile stretch of a Florida Everglade mangrove swamp and had it surveyed into a grid.

Victoria Beckham drew stares when she tottered out of an airport in Rome in a pair of mile-high Christian Louboutin heeled booties.

Sure, it had the odd cheesy line ( "I live life a quarter mile at a time" ), but it's safe to say most car fans would have enjoyed it.

For Lawrence, choosing a focus was one of the main mile markers she passed during her first year in business.

On Sunday nIght I walked a mIle to my abode, and made a poInt of askIng my whereabouts of every one I met.

RalphinFL Think how much fun a 200 mile per hour train derailing in an urban area would be. What an idea for a disaster movie.

Gerardo Miranda said he was so nervous he made a wrong turn about a mile from the hospital.

You cannot be so nice to her, for you give her an inch and she'll take a mile.

Up to three of your closest canine companions can be tracked with a GPS collar that follows them for up to a mile away.

Tillie ordered them into the vehicle, cursed at the women and angrily told Ford to drive him to Six Mile Road, she said.

"One mile of driving completely dwarfs the cost of a search, " he said.

By the time I backed up, tried to see it, it had moved at least a mile away, if not further. That quick. I was just astonished.

George Washington High School, about a mile and a half from our apartment, was one of the city's largest and best public schools.

The aim also was "to help make broader financial conditions more accommodative, " which the U. S. central bank missed by a mile.

From that reservoir a mile and more below the surface, cold water leapt high into the air at the fantastic rate of 4, 800 gallons a minute.

Only six of the regular bullets were traced by the police, to shootings that occurred up to a mile away.

The dwarf had a pair of mile-boots with which you could pass one mile per step.

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

They know there is nothing a man in Washington can do to plug a hole a mile down in the gulf.

We were a good mile from where we ought to have been, when we finally got the upper hand of her again.

It's "smiles" , because there's a mile between the beginning and end of it.

All during the two thousand mile drive from Seattle, I had wondered what I would find of the farm where I had been reared.

During one interview, the commander pointed to a hill about a mile away and asked a young sergeant, "Can you see that hill over there? "

These intelligent, versatile predators can swim up to a mile in the ocean and can roam 40 miles at a time.

The access net is the window of the entire telecommunication network, and is called as 'the last mile'.

The only way out for civilians was a 260-mile road cutting across the desert and leading to Tobruq and the Egyptian border.

The only way out for civilians was a 260-mile road cutting across the desert and leading to Tobruq and the Egyptian border.

The ocean is a hike from the community, and a small rural town is just a mile-and-a-half away.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. -- ? mile Zola.

It looks like an atomic bomb went off in a straight line. [The damage is] probably close to a mile [1. 6 kilometer] wide.

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

He then walked the mile and a half back to the cottage and sought help from his cousin and a lawyer who was joint host.

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

From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground.

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

He was placed in a simple grave alongside an amber necklace just a mile from the stone circle.

Although the speaker was close AT my elbow, his voice seemed to reach my ears from the distance of a mile.

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

In fact, poor communications was one of the biggest headaches at Three Mile Island.

One zone covers an area within a 10-mile radius of the plant, where it is possible that people could be harmed by direct radiation exposure.

Happy cloud Step Three Mile Bridge in the north first, is built across the river in a hole arch stone bridge, formerly known as snow bridge.

Underwater cameras give a live feed from the source, a mile below the surface: oil gushing up from the seabed in a sinuous, ceaseless heave.

these people have come many a mile on foot through the frost and the snow merely to see his celebrated Jordan.

It really is amazing to see all the details of your run, and you can analyze it mile-by-mile, or even step-by-step.

Mile after mile, song after song, if your wife asks you where you were all night, blame it on the car DVD system!

He said he was getting a dollar a mile.

Like, over a mile bigger, since a metallic asteroid that size would be worth an absolutely staggering amount of money.

You know what? I just made first string on the soccer team. Ya right. You can't even run a mile without losing your breath.

As I got closer to fulfilling my five-mile objective, little by little, the conflicting thoughts began to dissipate.

If an asset manager tried to woo investors by trying to sell them a ship, most of them would run a mile.

' The person was likely to say they don't live close to the new highway, before pointing to an area at most a quarter mile away.

Five minutes with your feet over your head. followed by a three-mile jog, then a quick swim. It's better than coffee and aspirin. Wanna try?

Walk back to the bank and turn left. Follow the road for about 1 mile until you see the hotel.

This personal submarine will dive deeper than any commercial subs out there currently being designed to dive up to a half mile down.

Nevertheless, the smile with black melting silk and badly mutilated limbs, in his head sea mile or ceaseless switch.

He typed "Tallady" into a search engine and came up with an address less than a mile from the Lowe's store.

He typed "Tallady" into a search engine and came up with an address less than a mile from the Lowe's store.

I started gabbing a mile a minute, hoping if I kept it up he wouldn't notice my horrible dress.

And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

Since then, thousands of kids have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and an almost 20-mile area around the plant remains off-limits.

As you can see from the radar data, there appears to be light precipitation within a 30-mile radius of the radar antenna.

Researchers have spent 30 years trying to find health effects from the steam releases at Three Mile Island and have come up with nothing.

He got so good, he says, he could recognize polluting vehicles from a mile away, nabbing up to 10 of them in a half-hour session.

After weeks of failed solutions, BP PLC crews on Sunday hooked up a mile-long tube to funnel the crude from a blown well into a tanker ship.

In the initial stage of ships' meeting, this range may be impacted a certain one, but it would be less than 1 nautical mile.

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 !

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 !

It was down in Louisiana, Just about a mile from Texarkana, In them old cotton fields back home.

Their best player was Abel Xavier by a mile and his rehabilitation after his drug scandal is nothing short of extraordinary.

They urged her not to quit. She never had . . . until then. With only a half mile to go, she asked to be pulled out.

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

"Smiles" , because there's a mile between the beginning and the end of it.

All this water fills the Baikal Rift an enormous trench that slices through southern Siberia and over 500 miles long and a mile deep.

Well-understood methods can reduce the strain that large downloads create on the core network, even if they do not help with the last mile.

To her left about a mile distant was the old hill top fort which she knew gave a really amazing view down into the Wylye valley.

How lost could she get, she figured, on a ten-mile trip between her house in Bear and Newark, just a couple of towns over?

He had not a copper in his pocket, and the two-mile walk home seemed very long.

In the wake of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, I cannot argue that it's wrong to be concerned about the safety of nuclear plants.

Plans to enlarge the tennis-court-sized tower into a three-mile-long island with an airport and gambling complex fell through.

Can telecom giants reinvent themselves where control of the last mile of wire is no longer decisive?

' said the young man once more, and again the man answered him: 'She is standing under a tree, a mile away, waiting for the dragon.

In frozen arctic regions or in ocean waters off the coast, and up to a mile down.

I was just a guy on a bike, alone, riding a 60-mile stretch of lonely road that winds through mountains eastward to the seacoast.

In an odd but real way, my five-mile runs up Abu Nawas Street made me wonder what the war in Iraq was all about.

I had not gone a mile when it began to rain.

Khafre, following a tough act, constructed his own pyramid, ten feet shorter than his father's, also a quarter of a mile behind the Sphinx.

About a mile out of the station the train began to pick up speed.

The desert was advancing by a mile or two a year.

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

The name Three Mile Island might not sound very familiar to you, but it probably does to your parents and teachers.

New Jersey has more diners than any other state and is the shopping mall capital of the world, with seven malls in a 25-mile radius.

We thought John had a home run, but the ball went foul by inches. A miss is as good as a mile.

When the stream is most boisterous, and its Fury heightened by a storm, it is dangerous to come within a Norway mile of it.

The two villages are a mile apart, and my house lies midway between them.

We thought Tom had a home run, but the ball went foul by inches. A miss is as good as a mile.

As we neared the two-mile mark, the leaders pulled away, even though my legs felt like they continued to pound away at the same rate.

But after accidents at Three-Mile Island and Chernobyl, local people began to take a not-in-my-back-yard attitude.

So even though I started training again, I continued to fall short of my five minute mile goal.

During one oral examination, the CEO pointed at a hill about a mile away and asked a candidate: "Can you see that hill over there? "

Divers rescued a humpback whale off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico. The adult male was tangled in fishing nets about a mile out to sea.

Public opinion turned against nuclear power after Three Mile Island. But it was the economics of nuclear power that changed fundamentally.

He was in the backyard of his house, a little less than a mile away from ground zero.

From where I sat I could see nine stores up the air shaft and nine below, and about a mile in the six directions of the honeycombed floors.

Officials deny assertions that the dam and its more than 600-km (370-mile) reservoir might have affected the regional climate.

Mr. Lele said the most significant aspect of the Chang'e 2 mission was the attempt at a 9. 5-mile-high orbit, a difficult feat.

His limp body drops out of the sky a quarter of a mile away.

Next day I left that station at last, with a caravan of sixty men, for a two-hundred-mile tramp.

Three days after that, while walking along the coast, I found something large floating on the sea about a mile away from the shore.

A mosque located in the financial district about a mile from Wall Street did not return a call seeking comment.

The point of total vaporization from the blast measured one half of a mile in diameter.

[Approximately] a mile of retreat in 75 minutes across the calving face of that particular vent, three miles wide.

It was a conservative undertaking, for at that time Merriman Road crossed the boundary just a quarter of a mile beyond Hawthorne Avenue.

The birds fell over a 1-mile area of Beebe, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area.

It is sort of hard to accept that three freak events occurred in a 500-mile area within five days of each other. . .

He and his wife began walking a mile every night with their dog; then he added an hour, then two, on a stationary bike.

It would come to be known as the worst reactor accident until Three Mile Island.

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.

He had not gone a mile before he felt tired.

Otway is happy he no longer needs to worry about the garden , house maintenance or hiking a mile to retrieve a daily newspaper .

I didn't notice when the policeman waved for me to pull over and he chased me for almost a mile before I realized what happened.

A mile travelled by a large truck full of groceries is not the same as a mile travelled by a sport-utility vehicle carrying a bag of salad.

A brisk 10, 000 steps, a mile or two depending on the length of your stride, made for optimal benefits.

Since going the extra mile can involve hardship, it will help you to be conscious of all the different benefits it will bring.

At the aspect of objective standards, triple identity test and association sticking out a mile should be persisted in.

He has also completed the fastest mile bouncing up and down on a pogo stick in Antarctica.

some people while playing cards in a card edge mark the skills to do do, do mark without light and stick out a mile.

The Bund stretches one mile along the bank of the Huangpu River.

The pigeons flew hundreds of miles, averaging speeds of a mile a minute, with messages strapped to their legs in tiny capsules.

It stands out a mile that she's telling the truth.

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

It was at high school where Rick first learned of a 5-mile charity road race for a paralyzed teenager.

A nuclear explosion is just as hot , but we don't really have anything big enough to melt a 22 mile long asteroid .

Although the accident rate per mile is only about half the rate for passenger cars, a life spent on major highways can never be really safe.

So, for 20 or so years, we have met once a week for a brisk 3-mile walk. And the benefits have been extraordinary.

And fare thee well, My only love, and fare thee well a while. And I will come again, My love, Though it were ten-thousand mile.

Col . Lapan was not able to immediately provide information about when the U. S. military set the 50- mile exclusion zone .

No special prep, awful travel schedule and yet a personal best in a six-mile race.

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

The nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have been studied to ensure that they do not happen again.

Woman: Yeah. We live just a mile up the road there.

a test-house built one mile from the point of detonation is illuminated by the bomb's blast in the instant of the explosion, 1953.

My hometown is down in the southern state of Louisiana, which is about a mile from Texarkana.

'There is another site about a mile down the river which we know nothing about but I think there must be a connection. '

some of these depressions extend down over a mile to the base of the planet's crust.

For nearly a mile the glacier's once smooth surface is ragged and cratered like the skin of a leper.

Except for at the East Side Gallery. Today, the one-mile-long stretch of the wall contains murals by artists from around the world.

Compared with the other identify s, this kind of type costs less per mile a recent d wears much longer due to its topnotch rubber.

If you don't like that metaphor, try thinking of a pack of cards a mile high with an elephant perfectly balanced on the top.

Up to two million wildebeest follow the rain clouds every year, traveling on a nineteen hundred mile round trip over daunting obstacles.

Certainly a one-contract floor trader can do a great deal of damage to himself, not unlike falling off a mile-high bridge.

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described "porker" who never ran more than a mile at a time , going to push his son five miles?

this benefits employers by motivating employees to go the extra mile and remain loyal to the company.

Instead, it advances like a wall of water that crashes over the coastline and everything on its way, reaching even as far as a mile inland.

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.

This averages out to approximately 1600 people per square mile making it one of the most densely populated countries on earth.

There were two smaller islands a few miles away, and after that , only the sea. just the sea, for mile after mile after mile.

The average world population density is 117 people per square mile, that of the United States 76 and that of Macao is 69, 000.

A few dozen men seeking to raise awareness for sexual assault violence against women tried to walk a mile in their shoes Friday - literally.

The sad, haunting eyes of the young man and his family stayed with me for about a mile.

Make a written plan for a 10-mile hike. Include map routes, a clothing and equipment list, and a list of items for a trail lunch.

But despite all the reliability upgrades, "with 70-mile winds, the trees will not just sway but come down on poles and wires, " he adds.

he is always eloquent, with a fantastic sense of theatre and is, by a mile, the most compelling manager in English football.

The camera's spotlight, when used in its burst mode, can temporarily blind encroaching individuals within a one-mile radius.

Indeed the East perhaps has more toxic waste per square mile than any other region, including Japan, Singapore and India.

But if you're not in that category, saying "trust me" or "don't worry" to a skeptical senior executive sends up a red flag a mile high.

There, Arab villages and Jewish settlers can live only a mile or two apart, but get far different allocations of water.

Here, it was spanned by a two-mile iron structure known as the Bridge of Friendship.

Shortly after the meltdown at Three Mile Island, the U. S. nuclear industry began an ambitious overhaul of its safety practices.

And there is a problem where it located--in frozen arctic regions or in ocean water opt the letter of coast, and up to a mile down.

Likewise, if someone is described as being better than all others by a country mile, then he's considered the best by far.

B2C enterprise is in loudly construction logistics distribution system, deal with the "last mile" distribution.

I found the front line about a mile beyond Al Uqaylah, a huddle of roadside snack shacks and trash heaps.

Poisonous sewage of the nautical mile, in the sky fill the air of the poisonous Yan of foul air.

He was starting to worry when he saw, less than a mile off shore, a lighthouse on a tiny rock island.

This road is considered the most dangerous in the world in terms of deaths per mile, claiming up to 200 lives per year.

This bluff terminated in a curious peak that seemed to be not more than a mile away from us.

At its best, Nissan claims, the Leaf will have "up to" a 100-mile range before needing a fueling charge.

For me, it was once a kid at mile 17 of the Boston Marathon who handed me a popsicle on an 86 degree day.

Paddle through parts of the 300-mile Scottish Sea Kayak Trail, along the sparsely populated western coast, with Wilderness Scotland.

Smiles, because it has a mile between the beginning and the end of it.

He did something which everybody in his day had said was impossible. He built a bridge a mile long over a deep river-the Brooklyn Bridge.

The City Corporation is preparing to go much further, however, with a plan to reduce greenhouse emissions in the Square Mile.

Noone is now running four times a week and just did her first 10-mile race.

At no point south of the river did the enemy advance more than a mile .