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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 Taliban, headquartered in the provincial capital of Quetta, use Baluchistan's 800-mile-long border to slip in and out of Afghanistan.

A key part of their technical set up was a half-mile long length of wire, which was thrown across the rooftops of several houses in Boston.

When Crowley had watched the first thirty mile long tailback he'd experienced the lovely warm feeling of a bad job well done.

From the bedroom, the view from the half-moon window is of the two-mile-long avenue that leads up towards Holkham Hall.

Crews in Iowa have been ordered to abandon a half- mile -long wall of dirt and sandbags because they're worried it's about to break.

Forest (greenish brown) covers much of the outside perimeter of the six-mile-long (ten-kilometer-long) atoll.

In 1913 they completed the 223-mile-long Los Angeles Aqueduct, which sent the entire flow of the Owens River south to the growing city.

Sports A footrace, usually less than a quarter-mile long, run at top speed from the outset.

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

Ningaloo Marine Park, Western Australia - A banded toadfish hides among the coral on 185-mile-long (298 kilometers) Ningaloo Reef.

Access a full mile long, the streets are mostly sold some of the nostalgia of Shanghai snacks.

Furthermore, a 25-mile long fault passes through Tangshan, where only few of its structures are earthquake-resistant.

An army company was subsequently deployed to the narrow, six-mile-long valley, to restore American pride, many assumed.

Physicists working with the 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider hope it will help solve some of the universe's mysteries.

She's always got a worry list a mile long. I wish she'd just relax and enjoy life.

Laura Magone's film, "One Extraordinary Street, " centers on a two-mile-long road that parallels polluted Pigeon Creek.

These icebergs push out into the 30-mile-long Ilulissat Ice Fjord, and then into Disko Bay and eventually the North Atlantic ocean.

The half- mile -long Louvre, previously an obstacle to circulation, thus became a vital gathering place and bridge to the surrounding city.

Eons of erosion by the mighty Columbia River carved this dramatic 80-mile-long (130-kilometer-long) gorge into the Cascade Range.

Most of the run was alongside a busy railway line with trains a mile long creeping past.

Furthermore, they believe the 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) based underground near Geneva holds the key.

LINZHOU suffered from water shortages until the 930 - mile - long Red Flag Canal was built .

Engineers are also reinforcing the 28-mile long, crescent-shaped sliver of land that protects Venice's lagoon.

walls completely intact and about a half- mile long on a side.

One route, the 800-mile-long flight from Iceland to Ireland, is likely the longest sea crossing by any swan species.

The two are connected by the 6, 000 mile-long Subtropical Convergence Zone, a narrow current also carrying trash.

There are alternatives for some trips: 20% of journeys are less than one mile long.

Background: Drivers will find this 1. 67-mile-long tunnel about an hour west of Denver inthe midst of the Rockies.

Background: A nearly 3-mile-long bridge dips into this6-mile-long tunnel in a region prone to earthquakes.

Seafair is a 10-day celebration of Washington state's Puget Sound, a 100-mile-long inlet of the Pacific Ocean.

Fourteen years ago the Seattle area bought 236 Italian-made Breda buses to service a mile-long downtown tunnel.

This is one of the controversial topics that can cause a mile-long thread.

Ocean City, renowned for its 10 mile long (16 kilometer) sandy beach, receives around eight million visitors per year.

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.

The 435-mile-long peninsula is covered in snow for most of the year.

Ten-mile Long Street, white flowers wins snow, clouds rolled scroll, which is the mobile monument in the hearts of the people!

In its 220-mile long journey across these three states, the tornado killed 689 people.

Construction has begun on a still larger installation, including a 1. 1 mile long jetty.

Many get tangled in mile-long lines laced with bait.

His body, not counting the tail, is almost a mile long.

Magnetically levitated trains such as the 19-mile-long Shanghai Transrapid are not under serious consideration.

They threaded mile-long pipes in to pump out water.

Background: This 33. 5-mile-long rail tunnel links the island of Honshu with the island of Hokkaido.

The record for the world's longest scarf as of 2010 is held by a group of Welsh knitters who knitted the 33-mile-long scarf in 2005.

Finally, three weeks before your marathon, do a 16-mile long run, with 12 miles of goal-pace running.

We're going to look at the mid-ocean ridge, a 40, 000 mile long mountain range.

5 mile long words that you guys master.

A quarter-mile-long (0. 4-kilometer-long) wheel line spritzes an Oregon alfalfa field.

When you stop, you leave a mile long skid mark.

And these guys orbited a 30 -- or no, about a 22 mile long asteroid called Eris.

This isn't this first offense. He has a rap sheet a mile long.

The patches are connected by a thin 6, 000-mile long current called the Subtropical Convergence Zone .

Completed in 1994, theprice tag of this 31-mile-long tunnel exceeded $20 billion.

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peter i know . that class filled up weeks ago . now there ' s a waiting list about a mile long.

The 4, 000-mile-long Great Wall of China was built to keep out invaders from the north.

The viewing of the roughly 1. 4-mile-long comet core occurred at 10 a. m. ET, according to the space agency.

Even a 16, 000 TEU ship fills the equivalent of 30 mile-long container trains.

A race that is one mile long.

The 750-mile-long (1, 200-kilometer-long) peninsula in eastern Siberia is home to 127 volcanoes, 22 of which are still active.

Typical Assignment: Explore a 10-mile-long cave and capture the exotic creatures that live deep inside

I'm gonna park my car in the middle of the mile-long bridge

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