| I breakfasted, put on my waders, grabbed a couple of rods and commenced to walk the marshy mile or two to the Khuder. |
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| The mile long rip in the canopy was still visible, though the flames had died long ago. |
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| Divers using submersible vehicles were about a mile and a half below the surface when they spotted the animal near hydrothermal vents. |
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| Seabound exit from the cult compound was blocked by half a mile of chain-link fence, topped with razor wire. |
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| A mile is 80 lengths, and if it wasn't closing I could probably have gone to 100 although it's a dead cert I'd regret it tomorrow. |
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| So he put an incorrect date of birth on the application form and completed the gruelling 26 mile route. |
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| Only 14 of the 40 horses finished the gruelling four-and-a-half mile course in Liverpool. |
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| The mile ended and the eight were covered in red dirt and breathing heavily. |
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| At this point, I decided to make my overdue pilgrimage to the loft, about a mile away along a dirt track. |
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| To the uninitiated, Orkney's Scapa Flow harbour is one square mile of untroubled, glassy water. |
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| About half a mile north-west of Easton he could see a group of mounted figures watching over a herd of large animals. |
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| About a mile on, where the beach runs out, the Greeks gather in a taverna to guzzle spit-roasted pork washed down with local beer. |
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| This duathlon was the World Championship Short Course, six mile run, twenty five mile bike, three mile run. |
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| The repellent will be tested at the First Monster 75 mile cycling and running duathlon around Loch Ness in September. |
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| Croglin Low Hall is probably the house indicated, but it is at least a mile distant from the church, which has been rebuilt. |
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| It may be worth noting that I'm watching the game on my computer roughly half a mile distant from the stadium. |
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| Soon, a peek of light appeared on the flat horizon, a tiny speck no larger than the glare of a flashlight a mile away. |
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| He once swam a mile with his hands and feet handcuffed together and did 12 lengths in a straitjacket. |
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| It is a mile long and the problem with any stretch of open water like this is that it is dangerous to swim there. |
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| The ball sailed a mile over and the outrage that followed was the product of Novo's team-mates hollering at him. |
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| I have an American email friend whose ex-husband used to drive the half mile to church. |
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| The 6.5 mile trail offers a strenuous climb up Taylor Hill followed by a twisting downhill. |
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| From the main fire station in downtown Tampa, officials in a meeting heard the fire a mile away. |
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| The station was, as usual, in the middle of nowhere, though I could see the downtown a mile or so away. |
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| They all jumped a mile in the air as she came out of the bathroom, a dressing gown wrapped around her. |
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| Women and children have to walk up to half a mile to draw drinking water from a water source. |
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| The territorial sea is a 12 nautical mile limit which is established by proclamation made under section 7 of the Seas and Submerged Land Act. |
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| I saw half a dozen stonechats scattered singly or in pairs along a mile stretch of the fenceline. |
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| The waste from both flows to the small New Labour sewage works half a mile away. |
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| There was a sheer drop-off of a cliff to the bay, about a mile below, and on the horizon they could see the misty Isle of the Sea. |
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| If the streamer lands one mile south of the drop zone, she jumps one mile north of it. |
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| At about 9 o'clock the wind hauled ahead and in missing stays she went ashore about a mile and a half below Port Sanilac. |
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| There were two stake boats anchored off the Bath Park Hotel, a fifth of a mile apart, and the course was around these. |
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| Their day began with a three mile jog at 7.30 a.m. followed by a full day of non-stop singing and dancing. |
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| A mile or so later we emerged at the golden sands and slipped onto the Island of Llanddwyn via a sand cause-way. |
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| A mile further down the street was the original boundary of the game preserve, marked off by an obsolete, broken down chainlink fence. |
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| For about three quarters of a mile before it runs into Smynge so, the river Guden broadens out and is up to a hundred yards wide. |
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| Barely a mile from my home, in the riotously expensive Dulwich Village, the cards advertise language lessons for the kids on vac. |
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| Music trucks blasted as they moved at what seemed like one mile an hour as the revelers gyrated to soca rhythms. |
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| I say to Mr Tamihere that businesses can smell it, and they are smelling that sort of smarm a mile away. |
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| Shortly before noon today, Eric was discovered asleep in a haystack off a boreen about a mile from his home. |
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| It was slow travel, through wet heavy snow along the bank of a small stream, but within less than a mile we came to a kill. |
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| We perplexed everyone around us by walking up the unfrequented road the quarter mile or so to the museum. |
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| The underground boltholes of the nocturnal creatures have been identified almost one mile away from the heart of Treacle Town. |
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| He'd just returned from scuba diving in the Red Sea where he clocked up many a mile of underwater exploring. |
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| The road ends at Upper Killeyan, but it is worth walking the last mile to the coast, once the favourite haunt of smugglers and moonshiners. |
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| Are we reflecting an attitude that turns the other cheek, an attitude that goes the extra mile in the face of abuse? |
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| Her eyes fell on some dried tumbleweed about a mile away, and she half-watched it roll lazily across the desert. |
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| North we walked, three abreast, a mile and a half along a dusty track that penetrates and bisects the moor. |
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| Our chase continued for perhaps a mile or more, until we found ourselves flying up a wide, rising road, tree-lined on both sides. |
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| Some measure little more than half a mile across, and the newest discovery, a Neptunian moon, is almost 3 billion miles from Earth. |
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| By 1846, they came to an agreement over the disputed 3000 mile boundary that separated the two nations. |
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| It's a 100 mile round trip but decent vegetarian restaurants are few and far between. |
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| Tarmac insists the quarry will be hidden from view by a screen of more than 20,000 trees and a mile and a half of hedgerow. |
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| Leave the Pennine Way at the road and turn right, following the road downhill for about half a mile until a gated track is reached on the right. |
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| Finally after about half a mile the thickness of the trees parted to reveal a small meadow. |
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| The 400 mile round trip was broken up with a stop at Stonehenge for an ice-cream. |
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| Under nearly every square mile of the swamp lie these ducts, though water and vegetation have hidden their scars. |
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| The crush you had on the history teacher was so obvious it could be seen a mile off. |
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| During that offensive, there were nine days of continuous bombing over a 60 square mile area. |
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| Somehow this is all tied in to the treacherous mountain trails, where a mile as the crow flies can take twenty miles of switchbacks. |
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| Within a mile of the site there are grain elevators, warehouses, and other old industrial buildings. |
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| One dark night he helped row a collapsible boat carrying a dozen men half a mile out to sea in the hope of finding a ship to take them. |
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| The base was a mile below the surface and was also protected by an energy shield. |
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| In about a mile is a small clearing in a glade of woods by a small clear stream. |
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| One mile south of the lighthouse is Oregon's only sea-lion rookery home to many California and Steller sea lions. |
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| The danger now is that anyone who wants to change society will run a mile from active politics. |
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| About a mile down the road, on the right, you'll come to an imposing brick gateway with wrought-iron gates. |
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| It lashed its mile long pointed tail fiercely about and looked around, darting its brown-red eyes, wildly scanning the ground below. |
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| No hand, skillfully placed or not, is going to catch all the aerosol content of a fifty mile an hour cough. |
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| The project would require approximately 1 square mile of fill and tons of dredging. |
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| Each frog species has its own unique call or croak, and some create ribbits so loud they can be heard up to a mile away. |
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| The protest march, which was over a mile and a half long, included tractors, farm machinery and farmers carrying placards. |
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| The road climbed for more than a mile before becoming flatter and more level. |
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| In A Survivor's Story, she retraces the route of their 1,000 mile journey from Poland to Germany. |
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| The journey takes you half a mile along a cactus-lined track, and into a village. |
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| This is over half a mile away and consists of one cubicle with an internal diameter of less than one metre. |
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| At about a mile from the house I stopped, knowing the android would be close behind. |
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| We are required to have a police escort for the three mile trip from our terminal to the consignee. |
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| The airport looked like a construction site from our position about half a mile away. |
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| Maria is a total fireball, completely irrational, and speaks a mile a minute. |
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| Another mile and a half brought him to the next settlement, and being short of conversational gambits, he again asked what this was called. |
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| Mom rented a conversion van and the six of us went to every garage sale in a hundred mile radius. |
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| He was hailed as the wonder horse, the Bullet from Ballydoyle, which would be invincible from a mile to 12 furlongs. |
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| The beachfront, for example, is three quarters of a mile of dense, in-your-face, swelling sea along a flat, featureless bay. |
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| Nothing with a sharp point was allowed within a mile of the young girl as she grew up. |
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| He had been driving a mile home from a friend's house, where he had had wine and Irish coffee with Christmas dinner. |
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| With a little help from my poles I was able to cruise down valley for another mile or so. |
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| This is a 100 mile cycle ride, with 500 riders, incorporating 8 nasty climbs. |
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| Two days later we are building a small driftwood fire on a tiny islet in the Barrier Islands a mile out into the open North Pacific. |
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| It was a mile and a half up a long hill, before I reached the next isotonic drinks station. |
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| There are 26,000 million insects living in every square mile of habitable land on Earth. |
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| You never know when that kid with a rap sheet a mile long will circumvent the system yet again because of a judge's ruling. |
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| She'd feed Gypsy cold corn pones and they'd run a mile or so to the creek to play. |
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| It is a sea mountain, blasted by volcanic forces more than a mile up from the ocean floor, and stretching underwater for nine miles. |
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| Newbury has better train connections, and also a straight mile for races such as the Royal Hunt Cup and Queen Anne Stakes. |
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| It brings together juniors and infants on one site, rather than a quarter of a mile apart on opposite sides of busy Bag Lane. |
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| We did a 3 mile jog, 100 sit ups, 200 jumping jacks, a rope climb, weight lifting, and 20 laps in the pool. |
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| Butterflies fluttered thistle to thistle and flat fields stretched to low horizons but south, a mile away, the Wolds rise sharply. |
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| We moved all of our vehicles and soldiers from Camp Fallujah to a position about 1 mile north of the city. |
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| The river is more a stream, eventually splitting into marshy islets and after such a rainless spring was bone dry for a mile of so. |
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| And he got off to a flying start in this year's series when he finished second in 12 min 29 sec in Monday's opening 2.2 mile race. |
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| Just a mile from the M62, the secluded Piethorne Valley is hidden from view in the lower folds of high Pennine moors. |
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| She completed a one hundred mile run and climbed a five pitch route in the middle. |
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| Despite numerous changes around the two-and-a-half mile oval, the track still follows much the same route as it did nearly 100 years ago. |
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| In this case, over time, the debris field covered about two to three square mile area. |
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| The first step to mile high web access and email is airlines introducing the third generation of in-flight entertainment systems. |
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| I don't want to influence the vote, but that is by a country mile the funniest thing I have ever read. |
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| The Heritage Park is situated approximately a mile from Peatland World and is a community-run fee-paying visitor attraction. |
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| The following day, a 10 mile Famine walk was successfully negotiated by the same group. |
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| Whether it is running a company, running a mile or organising a dinner party, he is equally committed to perfection. |
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| This is a daunting thing to hear as you embark on a 26.2 mile footslog across the desert. |
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| She headed east on Highway 36 for a mile or so, then turned south on a gravel road. |
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| He was also forbidden from contacting her or going within a quarter of a mile of her house. |
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| The shop sold clotted cream, the paths were lined with split log fences and cow parsley and we were less than a mile from the sea. |
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| He slammed his fist into the car door, leaving a huge dint that even our old crabby neighbor could see a mile away. |
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| An attempt to restart the right engine was too late and the plane crash-landed half a mile from the runway. |
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| The quakes have occurred at depths less than one mile below the lava dome within the mountain's crater. |
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| It was low tide and in the far distance, perhaps a full mile away, lay the distant glint of the sea. |
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| After the observation mile it was a straight run home, only if the truth be told it was more of a crawl than anything else. |
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| Niddrie House, a mile north of Edmonstone House, is partly an ancient baronial fortalice and partly a handsome modern mansion. |
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| A mile or two off the trail they found shelter in a crevice in the rock, deep and high enough to take the horses. |
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| Tests results Tuesday showed that all 20 farms within a two mile radius of the original infected farm were negative for avian influenza. |
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| I ended up walking about a mile out of my way, thanks to following the instructions given. |
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| The outside lane of the northbound carriageway was temporarily closed while the man was freed from the vehicle, causing a two mile tailback. |
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| I shoulda' seen it coming a mile away, but it didn't hit me until I was seated in a janky theater seat with a handful of popcorn. |
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| Distance freestyle is the realm of Swedish import, Asa Sandlund, who finished third in the mile last year. |
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| He said the proposed residential units would be one-half mile from the proposed freight yard. |
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| The tight 1.5 mile circuit promises close racing action for all four classes of cars. |
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| Bicyclists will be able to ride through the one mile exhibit of fulgent lights. |
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| There is a huge difference between running a half-marathon and the full 26.2 mile distance. |
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| There was further surprise in that he was not intercepted at the airport boundary customs post, one mile from the terminal buildings. |
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| About another mile down the road, tents are patched together with various styles of cloth. |
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| High Chaparral made the lead with an eighth of a mile to go and edged left in the final furlong. |
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| He won over a mile and two furlongs at Leopardstown back in May, coasting home by half a dozen lengths. |
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| And since they use far less fuel per passenger mile than planes, they will also reduce the nation's dependence on imported oil. |
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| Many people found it difficult to justify the near 88,000 Allied men lost for every one mile gained in the advance. |
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| This continued its course west, directly parallel to the island, and in it, at a distance of half a mile from us, three galliots lay at anchor. |
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| This new speed limit, perhaps 40 mph, needs to extend about one mile eastward from the roundabout at the easterly end of the present bypass. |
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| The pair swopped glamour for grind as they undertook the 80 mile journey through the Sierra del Escambray mountain range this month. |
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| Ridden by Kieren Fallon, the two-year-old took up the lead from pacemaker Hills of Aran halfway through the one mile race. |
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| Sallie was going to be the next pacer, so she got ready for her twenty mile loop. |
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| If you average a 10-minute mile and are prepping for a 5K, this playlist is the perfect speed to help hit your goal. |
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| Among the other preposterous suggestions was the idea of building a structure a mile high. |
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| Not a mile away, the cave ended at a pedestal with a tiny golden glimmer above it. |
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| In less than a mile it takes in glorious views of Edinburgh Castle, Calton Hill and Princes Street Gardens. |
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| Ashford is a small village and chapelry to Bakewell, about one mile away on the Buxton Road. |
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| All nine coaches were derailed, but continued upright for half a mile before colliding head-on with a coal train. |
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| It began descending at full throttle and crashed one mile from the point of its liftoff. |
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| Lastly, if your dairy has grown up in the city, developable land within a country mile of it is scarce and trading at a premium. |
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| We can carry out most work, a 6,000 mile service, an MOT test, a cambelt change, fit a roll bar or just about anything else! |
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| Her choice was the bedroom of a tiny studio apartment half a mile from campus, and there she emerged the winner, though it was well past midnight before Jack conceded defeat. |
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| He claimed there was less than half a mile between the end of the runway and houses at the Horsforth end and that an extension could raise safety concerns. |
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| They know he will stay the Epsom mile and a half and they are also aware that he will be produced at concert pitch when the big day arrives next month. |
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| They aimed to beach her, but the inrush of water was too great and the tugs had to cast off as she sank to the sandy bottom a mile from Rame Head at 10.30 pm. |
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| Martin and I jumped out of the car, and I looked at the tornado, and estimated it to be just a mile away from us, and it was going fifty miles an hour. |
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| Having driven home through mile upon mile of flooding, my car conked out. |
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| Between the star parties, parks, and planetariums, Hawaii offers more publicly accessible world-class astronomy per square mile than anywhere else on Earth. |
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| A little before six o'clock, we were casting plugs about a mile above St. Anthony Falls when the Patrick Gannaway, a towboat, came chugging upriver with two barges. |
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| When he arrived at the crash site, a mile away, he was flummoxed. |
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| Legend has it that Benjamin Franklin added the mile markers during his tenure as postmaster general, using a mechanical odometer attached to his wagon. |
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| It is a good read, and although I should have seen the final plot twist approaching from a country mile away, it doesn't really diminish the story if you do guess it. |
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| My fishcake was passable, and not a country mile off being good. |
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| Now, almost six years on, he is the best player in the world by a country mile and if he does not win another match, he will still be No.1 until deep into the summer. |
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| We reached the 200 mile mark today as we footslogged through the runoff. |
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| A mile before the city limit marker, the traffic slowed to a crawl. |
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| And outside only a bird's mournful cry broke the stillness of the timeless, winding country lanes and mile upon rolling mile of flat farm land fringed by the sea. |
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| He left because he was alarmed at the environmental damage being done by the 1.2 mile funicular railway being built to within 500 feet of the Cairngorm summit. |
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| I have only run once in the last three weeks and the furthest distance I have ever covered is 8.3 miles, the last mile and a bit of which I had to walk. |
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| Two epic and overlapping circles, more than one-third of a mile long from end to end, seem to drape like Daliesque clocks over the bulging landscape. |
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| The school appeared to swim upstream with the rising tide each day and went back out to sea on the ebb tide where they could be seen about a mile off the land. |
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| One of the first demonstrations was a 2.7 mile gigabit data link linking the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology on Coconut Island in Kane'ohe Bay to Oahu. |
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| After unpacking a few things we drove into the village which was just under a mile away and bought some provisions including bacon and sausages from the famous butchers there. |
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| Construction of the four-and-a-half mile timber and wire fence and an inner electrified fence will begin in April, according to the project manager. |
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| Was I good enough to take off at a high gross weight, lose an engine, avoid the unseen mountains within a mile and a half of the field while on instruments? |
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| Within a mile of the site there are grain elevators, warehouses, and other old industrial buildings, which influenced the character of the design of this addition. |
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| Most people who have worked with her will testify that she is the strictest of disciplinarians, but is always willing to go the extra mile to help a young colleague. |
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| Surrounding the cone on three sides were high walls of volcanic rock forming an amphitheater almost a mile and a half wide, a subtle palette of dun, gray, and beige. |
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| The procession was a half mile long numbering nearly a hundred carriages aud was preceded by a military band which discoursed exequial music from the church to the cemetery. |
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| About a mile away from the road and surrounded by fields it's very quiet and the tall trees create a dome letting through a mere dapple of sunlight. |
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| The second mile is a huge drop into Brooklyn, and by about halfway, in the borough of Queens, 12 flat miles are followed by a climb, a drop and another steep climb. |
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| The drop-off around its margin is extraordinarily abrupt, with sheer white and salmon-pink walls extending a half mile to the lowland rain forest below. |
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| It made a violent snap roll and went into a vertical dive, crashing within 1.5 mile of Montmédy. |
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| A jogging track runs through a mile of the property, and a helipad is in active use. |
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| In the athletic field, Terry has distinguished himself as the third blind person in the world to run the mile in under five minutes. |
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| On the 500 mile stretch across the Sahara where the temperatures soared above 45 degrees celcius, the camera was really put through its paces. |
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| I spent almost my entire first 17 years, give or take a day out or the odd holiday, within a one mile radius of the house that's been our home for over 50 years. |
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| There are moments of great emotional profundity in the film, but they're compounded by the filmmakers' reluctance to go the extra mile and put their feelings on the screen. |
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| Just a 110 mile sprint across the Marmara Sea stands between this familiar leader of the pack and the spicy taste of victory. |
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| The hideous barbed-wire fence we visited had a nasty-looking armed guard in a lookout post every half mile or so. |
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| Such was the renown of this prosperous mine that an adit and subsequent shaft were dug more than a mile to the south. |
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| The transceiver can broadcast about half a mile and connect up to four people. |
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| Normally, you'll only see a difference in detail when the unit is zoomed out to the 30 mile range or higher. |
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| Suffice to say that at this pace, the 355 mile deficit he has at the moment will quickly shrink away. |
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| More than a mile from the explosion I tripped over several 20mm live shells only to beat a hasty retreat to report the incident. |
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| The county council is urging all parents to start walking their children to school, even if it is just for the last half a mile to the school gate itself. |
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| It was about a half a mile downhill, with an absolutely beautiful view of the countryside, although it was always a bit harder to get back up again after a few pints. |
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| Because of Johnson's strong family ties, the Falcons have gone the extra mile in accommodating his wish to spend the majority of the offseason with his wife and two children. |
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| By the time we reached Roman Road, only half a mile as the crow flies from our starting point, the bus was jam-packed full and sailing past the waiting queues. |
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| This English-style, 21.75 square mile large garden, designed in 1865 will win over any lovebirds, or whoever appreciates a bucolic stroll. |
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| Gemma was delighted by a sand pit over? mile long and finally got the hang of splashing in the waves! |
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| Its three swimming pools can get crowded but it has more than half a mile of beach with pedalo hire, scuba diving and windsurfing. |
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| The camera swings and curvets in accord, then rises to survey the scene — half a mile of merriment where none should be. |
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| He pointed to a yellow thumbtack at the Chicago River Lock and Dam, under Lake Shore Drive, about a mile and a half north of the Shedd Aquarium. |
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| None the less, I had gone barely half a mile in my Scenic when a bus driver, alongside me at a junction, put his window down to express his admiration. |
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| It would take over an hour to reach the fishing grounds but we had gone barely a mile before we saw one of the most magnificent sights in the world. |
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| The vessel was anchored, but the stern of the vessel hit a rocky outcrop, approximately 1 nautical mile south of Couarde sur mer. |
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| Half a mile down the road she turned off and drove to the edge of a coulee that ran through a section of fallow pasture. |
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| Ascending gently for almost a mile, the trail climbed a steep rockslide for about a third of a mile before leveling out. |
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| Clearly, one mile as measured on the humpbacked surface of the mountain is less than one mile as measured horizontally. |
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| There are three little areas that are outside of that 200 nautical mile zone. |
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| The radar indicated that the other vessel was half a nautical mile distant. |
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| Marc and his crew finished the 284 nautical mile route off the Brittany coast in 1 day, 11 hours, 7 minutes and 33 seconds. |
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| In general terms, this embraces all water and airspace within what is known as the 12 nautical mile limit. |
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| The conversion rate to be used in computing the distance is 1.6091 kilometre to 1 statute mile and 1.852 kilometre to 1 nautical mile. |
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| Attention was drawn to the fact that the continued use of the nautical mile and the knot is related to safety issues in sea and air transport. |
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| You are required to maintain a distance of at least one-half nautical mile from previously set fixed gear. |
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| About a mile from my home the Germans entered the city on tanks and trucks, with their guns pointed toward the rooftops. |
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| Meanwhile, it is expected to take between three and four weeks to clear a mile and a half of track affected by a landslip in Heck, 11 miles north of Doncaster. |
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| Mile after mile of palm-oil plantation alternates with mile after mile of regimented lines of acacia trees, grown for pulpwood. |
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| Then they passed over a brick bridge that must have been more than a mile long and Bligh knew that they could no longer be retracing their route from the capital. |
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| We clambered over mossy boulders beneath a canopy of big-leaf maple, bay, and fir, and covered six-tenths of a mile of sparkling riffles and cascades. |
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| At the other end of the cone shaped island was a two mile long causeway with tall stone pillars as markers connected to the mainland near Strandhill. |
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| Sandbank Provincial Park, located right on the coastline, is one mile by road west of the town. |
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| This is a man who operates on himself, removing a musket ball, and then goes on a 10 mile trek across the rocky lengths of one of the Galapagos islands. |
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| A short walk from the cathedral is a cable car, which ascends around half a mile to provide an impressive view of the island and the surrounding fjords. |
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| Doubleball was played between evenly matched teams on pitches up to one mile long. |
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| You can visualize a route as beads on a string, or, think of it as the mile marker signs posted at intervals along U. S. interstate highways. |
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| A gravel road leads about a mile north to the Canadian border. |
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| She has an unerring ability to see things from an objective point of view, and can spot a dud policy a mile off. |
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| About half a mile from the Desolate Borough's walls, the city dumped the by-products of dyes, tatters of textiles, and every other waste that had no use for. |
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| A curler walks a mile or two every game, and sweeping gets shoulder and arm muscles in shape. |
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| It was a right-angled bend, just a mile or two south of us and then, from where we were, in November they went to gain another battle. |
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| Detroit might have the makings of a nice 50 square mile city within its population. |
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| Much of the island is a mantle of ice more than half a mile thick. |
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| We faced a 200 mile drive to South Devon for what would be a glorious, sunsoaked honeymoon, doing the tedious lovey-dovey things that young marrieds like us do. |
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| The Rossmore demesne is an imposing gothic ruin situated a mile south outside the town. |
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| There is a grist mill and distillery and four merchant shops and 2 schoolhouses at the place and the English church one mile and a half from it. |
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| The sea was just a half a mile south of the fort and some men made plans to bathe in its waters tomorrow, while others just wanted to drink and eat and remain by the fires. |
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| At Glacier Point, a full vertiginous mile above the valley floor, even the sequoias seem dwarfed by Half Dome, the greatest ornament in a landscape brimming with wonders. |
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| The only thing that makes us wonder about this possibility is that the last mile of the race was dedicated to Newtown victims. |
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| As a result, multimillion-dollar apartments in the sky will darken parts of the park a mile away. |
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| It was recovered from a drain in the Road, barely a mile from his home. |
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| The Carlow teacher posted a personal best over the metric mile of 4.03.18, beating her 4.05 in the Northern Ireland Games in Belfast earlier in the season. |
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| The shopping complex, recently rebranded thecentre:mk, is half a mile long and attracts over 30 million people a year. |
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| He still lives in Glasgow's West End, less than a mile from the street in Maryhill where he was brought up by his father. |
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| It has over a mile of railway cars, as a matter of fact, many of them in complete sets. |
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| On issues such as these, we need to go the extra mile to provide explanations and argue our point of view. |
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| I am honoured to be part of a government that goes the extra mile for our troops and all Canadians. |
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| Your mind, your talent, and your spiritual growth are not bound by a physical barrier, like a four-minute mile for runners. |
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| At both ends, for half a mile or so, the river is comparatively quiet under the influence of the lake and the ocean tides. |
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| Your company went the extra mile to get me what I needed, when I needed it and I really appreciate that! |
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| The division is now operating on the 800-acre marine terminal at Jacksonville, which has a mile of continuous berthing and is one of the largest terminals on the east coast. |
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| Go through the derelict farm, through a sheepfold, and follow the Shalloch Burn which is crossed on a girder bridge about a quarter of a mile beyond the farm. |
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| The book opens in the stagnant, wet spring of 1950 at Hart House, a lonesome English manse a mile away from the nearest road. |
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| It would be like making a decision about whether or not to keep exercising at mile 24 of a marathon. |
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| In truth, the four and a half mile ordeal is more like a turkey shoot. |
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| Lloyd Point stands at the western end of a mile long sand and gravel bar, Lloyd Point Beach, that projects west from the morainal deposits that form the bulk of the park. |
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| It travels another mile before it begins to slew out of control. |
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| Younger and wirier than his charge, talking a mile a minute and singing during his chores, he nonetheless shows a careworn, weary face, and he drinks on the sly. |
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| I cross the broad area in front of Pass Creek at the 13 mile mark, note the strength of the venturi in the pass as significant, then drive into Red Rocks. |
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| Ana Cross stands proud on a tumulus, visible from half a mile away. |
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| The later levels of the game are so unbearably evil, that this game really should have been locked in a lead case and buried half a mile underground. |
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| For more than a mile the beach was littered with wrecked ships, including debris from the steamer Curaca which was thrown across the full width of the narrows. |
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| We came past the island two days later and gave it an offing of over a mile compared to our usual half mile, with nothing to be seen, felt or smelt. |
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| The Fire brigade were called just before 11 pm and extinguished the fire, which burned an area of heathland around three-quarters of a mile square. |
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| A mile away at Kilmuir cemetery, among lichen-bearded gravestones, Mary MacLeod pointed me towards the tall Celtic cross that marks the grave of Flora MacDonald. |
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| He said he had been changing trains at York on his way home at the end of a seven-day 100 mile trek across the North York Moors and along the coast from Whitby to Scarborough. |
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| No vehicles are permitted here and there are no visitor services, so if you go, bring water and supplies, and plan to walk a mile and a half to the hoodoos. |
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| Within a day or two, a few miles from the debris field, the main body of the flying saucer was found, and a mile or two from that several bodies of small humanoids were found. |
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| In its decision, the department noted that the three airlines accounted for 35 percent of revenue per passenger mile in the industry and that 3,214 of their routes overlapped. |
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| The Nova Scotian miners didn't get paid until they started cutting the coal, so each day they'd begin their shift by running a mile and a half under the sea to the coalface. |
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| The hounds made an eight mile point in a little over 45 minutes. |
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| The intended targets were military vehicles parked about half a mile away. |
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| It could be picked up by small crystal sets on a 12 mile radius. |
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| He and his group will mark out a mile spot and kiteboard up and down until they have finished the race. |
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| No phone, feelfab.org, one-week breaks from £995pp full board, flights extra ID608942 FURTHER AFIELD Yoga Magic, a mile or so from the coast in northern Goa, ticks all the boxes for a restful and rejuvenating break. |
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| His helping the old woman with her shopping was deemed highly altruistic by everyone, especially since her home was a mile away. |
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| An assistant at Waitrose Formby went the extra mile to find out whether the houmous was stocked or not. |
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| If your visit coincides with Shrove Tuesday or Ash Wednesday you'll be lucky enough to witness the 3 mile long Royal Shrovetide football competition. |
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| This 38 hectare sector situated less than a mile from the city centre housed mills, workshops and warehouses in olden days along the canal. 4300 new lodgings will notably be built there in the next 10 to 15 years. |
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| They are, presumably, willing to pay a charge ranging from one to one-and-a-half cents per mile for the relative comfort, speed and safety of the toll road over its parallel free road. |
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| The speed-indicating mechanism of the speedometer is actuated by a circular permanent magnet that is rotated 1,000 revolutions per mile of vehicle travel by a flexible shaft driven by gears at the rear of the transmission. |
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| He perfected the art of the hostile takeover when it was still new, spotting weak companies a mile off and gobbling up shares almost before the victim was aware of it. |
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| The experimental e-highway, which will first be built along one mile of the corridor as a test, involves an overhead catenary system to which trucks can attach. |
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| My shadow attacked: upping the pace to around six minutes a mile as he tried to make up the time I had gained on him during cooler conditions on day two. |
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| I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate my deep appreciation of the brave women and men who go the extra mile to make this world a safer place. |
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| Trawling for surfers Sweeping changes Question time in Japan The battle for the last mile ReprintsSo if sweepstakes have been running for three decades without causing a political furore, what has suddenly gone wrong? |
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| The crew had been informed that the ceiling was 300 feet, visibility was a quarter of a mile in snow flurries, and the wind was from the southeast at 15 knots gusting to 20 knots. |
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| The blue dwarf snakehead fish, from West Bengal, India, breathes air and can wriggle up to a quarter of a mile over wet ground between water. |
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| A publication of General Motors Employee Relations Staff in 1952 pointed out that a carburetor jet a thousandth of an inch too big could reduce a car-owner's gasoline mileage by a mile or more to the gallon. |
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| The Mk8 is either radio controlled, or can be operated by fibreoptics, and can be used by an expert almost a mile away from the bomb. |
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| In your stateroom, outside by the pool, in the Spa, anywhere at all, at anytime, their onboard family goes the extra mile to ensure every aspect of your cruise is exactly the way desire. |
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| Keyport Plaza fronts Routes 35 and 36, two busy throughways in Keyport, and is less than a mile away from the Garden State Parkway. |
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| Saturday, 5.30pm, Welford Road, ESPN The game of the weekend by a country mile sees Jordan Crane, missing for most of last season, take over the Tigers' captaincy from Geordan Murphy. |
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| Despite the construction of a 22 mile long circular beltway in 1973, it is still very difficult to cross the city, and parking options are very expensive. |
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| So, all week, Capitol Hill resounded with the awesome noise of White House persuasion. In this section Mayor Daley's arboretum Robin Hood rides again The last mile New Hoffa, new Teamsters? |
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| Ryan is effusive in his support for the organization's staff as he points to their individual and collective commitment to Black CAP, their professionalism, their willingness to go the extra mile whenever it is required. |
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| Heartbroken animal-lover Jacob Richter had given up the tortoiseshell cat for dead until she turned up in a garden a mile away. |
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| It is very possible that a new world record for the fastest mile on a five-eighths mile track could be set at The Meadows on Adios Day. |
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