A mile

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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

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.

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

I might have got good limestone within a mile or two and burned it myself, if I had cared to do so.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Brown bears have an extremely keen sense of smell and can detect odors up to a mile away!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

' 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

If you think you're weak because you can't run a mile, get to the track and practice.

It used to be that every household had a well; now the village hires a truck to fetch water from a mile away .

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

After a walk of a mile and a half, the shore presented no curve which would permit them to return to the north.

Nearly a mile across and 600ft deep, there are lookout points around the crater's edge but no hiking to the bottom.

The business location is about a mile outside the town, but vehicles have to drive through a residential area to reach the abattoir.

We had not gone for a mile before I felt tired.

a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter of a mile.

Before they saw the Great Falls, Lewis and Clark thought the portage would be less than a mile.

But they sometimes disappear for weeks, diving more than a mile down and resting in the chilly deep for a spell.

It took him three months to be able to run a mile.

The canoe first sent adrift was floating before the air, quite a quarter of a mile above him.

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

Family Dollar's strategy is to blanket a region with stores, clustering them sometimes less than a mile apart and along bus routes.

You've intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.

With no passengers on board, the balloon stays aloft for about 10 minutes, landing about a mile and a half away from where it took off.

Let me see. That would be $40. 00 a day plus 38 cents a mile.

For hundreds of years, all the statistics had kept the record of track-and-field that nobody could run a mile in less than four minutes.

"Smiles, " because there is a mile between the beginning and the end of this word.

The reef enclosed more than one side of the island, lying perhaps a mile out and parallel to what they now thought of as their beach.

Therefore, some natural plant name cosmetics and skin name issue is not a good number than the average skin care less, and worth to a mile.

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

A: sorry I'm late. There was road construction on highway 9 and traffic was bucked up for a mile.

This summer, such systems helped seal a BP well a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

But the illusion of Europe embedded deep in the heart of Africa vanishes barely a mile from the center of town.

He is usually accurate, but this time he missed the mark by a mile.

Giant tube worms, crabs, and shrimp live in the dark, a mile below the ocean surface, huddled around superheated geothermal vents.

The Minnan people also built some of the largest tulou, with diameters of nearly a tenth of a mile.

If you can't walk very far, make a jaunt around the block your first goal instead of a mile.

That's right, over a mile of asphalt made from runways of an old naval base.

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.

It is so thin that you need to use a mile of it to avoid making contact.

Boys had to run a quarter of a mile before breakfast, drink milk at meals and do exercises while teachers read to them.

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.

Downstream it led, after about a mile, to a tiny lock with heavy wooden gates that strained shut against the current.

To make it into the record books, Colin had to drive the bike 100 metres, but amazingly he managed to ride more than a mile.

She had not gane a mile but twa.

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.

I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards , a mile or more from the church.

The blast was felt at least a mile away at a store selling skiing gear.

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.

However, infrastructure disasters involving trains or airplanes could affect a radius of a mile or more.

The candidate for city council has been beaten by only one vote , but a miss is as good as a mile.

The road slopes gently downward for a mile or two.

A mile from the finish line of the London Marathon, thousands of onlookers holding signs lined the route.

and he could take his yew bow and plug a ten-cent piece every time, a mile and a half.

You know, the only good thing about no soap is that you can smell hijackers a mile off.

An oil sheen is apparent in the Gulf of Mexico about a quarter of a mile east of the Chandeleur Islands.

You just walk away congratulating yourself on being able to sniff out an ambush from a mile away.

In theory, I should be able to make them out: they are only a mile away.

Steven: When I was in college, I used to be on the track team. I could run a mile in five minutes.

The walk home from the bus stop was nearly a mile and a half already. Why make it longer?

She had even gotten a call from a parking garage a mile-and-a-half away but didn't know how he'd gotten there.

Soon we arrived at the place, because the island was only three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide.

We have tried to persuade parents to let their children do this in the UK but they ran a mile.

Inevitably, after about a quarter of a mile, he decided it was not fun.

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

The Law said stay; Jonathan said go; and by now he was a mile across the water.

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

About a mile down the road, a hot sensation began at the back of Swanson's neck and spread forward toward his face.

We made it less than a mile, my side was cramped, I couldn't breathe and I was crying and walked home.

Per beat : the card stick out a mile, panoramic view, completely within your grasp.

Along the main strip visitors will find lots of bars and restaurants to choose from spanning more than a mile.

Japanese company and an American company had a boat race, the Japanese won by a mile.

About a quarter of a mile from the stables they found the dead body of the unlucky Straker.

In 1930, a man is carried a mile across the Kansas, fish and toads rain from the sky.

They lived about a mile off through the woods, and were quite used to the route.

Another word, vocabulary, I have acquaintance with it. But I didn't distinguaged it from record. A Miss Is as Good as a Mile .

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

We reached a point about a mile or two from the outskirts of Bani Walid. We could see buildings in the distance.

He then walks to another bus that drops him off a mile from his territory.

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

The wells of most geothermal plants are about 2km (a mile-and-a-bit) deep.

While police were questioning witnesses, they received word of another robbery less than a mile away.

Unfortunately, Mexico City is sitting in a valley, and it's about a mile and a half above sea level.

Seven years later he almost drowned while failing to jump the Snake River Canyon, a quarter-of-a-mile wide, in Idaho.

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

This old house, in a run-down area of London about a mile from King's Cross, is hidden with a Fidelius Charm.

(Fortune) -- About a mile past the Bountiful Blessings Church on the outskirts of Spartanburg, S. C. , make a right turn.

Roaring along at a speed of 60 miles per hour, it swept clean a path a mile wide across the states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indian.

A sign announced the San Roque turnoff was a mile and a half ahead.

Actually, if you go more than a mile or two outside China's big cities, the wants are more basic.

Emergency rescue workers rushed to the scene and searched from the site he jumped in to a mile west.

It was original. It was daring. It stood out by a mile, and this is the sign of a great potential artist.

Egbert said he was getting a dollar a mile.

Their last batter missed hitting a home run by only one foot, but fortunately for us a miss is as good as a mile.

Eight people had been killed the previous year within a mile of where I stopped.

Four decades ago, the Nairobi slum of Kibera, barely two kilometres (a mile) from the leafy charm of the city centre, hardly existed.

He is capable of running a mile in a minute.

For example, a mile spans a larger number of latitude degrees as you move toward the poles of the earth and away from the equator.

The king of the oilfield is the driller. he is a very skilled man. Sometimes he sends is drill more than a mile into the earth.

The oil and gas in this region are under more than a mile of water and a thick layer of salt.

I had not gone a mile before I felt tried .

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

I was scarce a quarter of a mile to seaward, and it was my first thought to paddle in and land .

During some migrations, the flocks flying overhead would stretch for over a mile and could take several hours to pass.

The ship sank (a mile) off the port entrance.

His 11-year-old friend was later found, wearing only his boxer shorts and socks, unconscious at the edge of a pond a mile away.

Anyone who's kept an eye on the first-person shooter since it was announced last December could've seen the outrage coming from a mile away.

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

Perhaps a Mother ship a mile wide would seem like a city in space, but how would you feel in one a hundred miles wide?

Ask any racer, any real racer. It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning's winning.

Compared to planet Earth, some asteroids are tiny, measuring less than a mile in diameter.

The boat was about a mile from the shore when the engine suddenly died.

It was a mile by water, four miles round the shore.

There, vehicles were inching along little more than a third of a mile a day.

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

Bullets can come down over a mile away from the spot where they were fired.

During the design and implement, security characteristic and technology advantage of JCA, JCE, JAAS and JSSE stacked out a mile.

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

I can even see past the supermarket, with a glimpse of the ocean a mile beyond that.

And they believed that it was impossible to run a mile in less than four minutes.

The ship anchored a mile off the coast.

It's hard to walk a mile with you alone in the sand.