Example sentences of "[verb] at [num] miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stunt was practised in slow motion , before the cameras rolled and captured Crawford zooming between the lorry 's wheels as it moved at fifteen miles per hour . |
| 2 | Generally speaking , compared with being sedentary ( sitting watching TV , working at a desk ) , you will burn around three times more calories walking at 3 miles an hour . |
| 3 | So a car developing 30 horsepower at 60 miles an hour is releasing some 90 kW of heat continuously into the air . |
| 4 | Distance has no meaning when we are looking at 125 miles so we look at time ; we will paddle for four hours and then have a five minute break . |
| 5 | ‘ They need to progress at 10–15 miles a day if they are to reach the pole by Easter , according to plan ’ , she said . |
| 6 | If the origin of life were a probable event by ordinary human standards , then a substantial number of planets within radio range should have developed a radio technology long enough ago ( bearing in mind that radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second ) for us to have picked up at least one transmission during the decades that we have been equipped to do so . |
| 7 | Most people say 30 days because the man travels at 10 miles a day . |
| 8 | People may smoke , drive at 80 miles an hour through fog on a motorway , go in for hang-gliding or rock climbing at the weekends . |
| 9 | Now if I do it at half that speed , if I do if I drive at thirty miles an hour , how long will it take me to do the sixty miles ? |
| 10 | I drive at six miles an hour . |
| 11 | So it would take me twenty hours of I drive at six miles an hour . |
| 12 | If we drive at sixty miles an hour . |
| 13 | If he 'd driven at 40 miles an hour he would have driven straight past . |
| 14 | The trial of two drivers alleged to have caused the death of five young people has heard how one of the cars was travelling at ninety-six miles an hour shortly before the fatal accident . |
| 15 | This means that a 40 ton lorry travelling at 70 miles an hour has 53 times the destruction power and maiming power that is possessed by a 0.75 ton sports car travelling at the same speed . |
| 16 | A friend and I were driving in spring to Crarae gardens near Inveraray so I could salivate over the rhododendrons , but we grew tired of travelling at seven miles an hour behind clods in caravans and on reaching the Rest And Be Thankful pulled into the side to wander about at the base of Beinn an Lochain . |
| 17 | The XJ-Two Twenty , which costs almost half a million pounds was being test driven by a motoring journalist , when he accidentally changed down to first gear instead of third while travelling at NINETY miles an hour.It 'll need about twenty thousand pounds to mend the broken car … the driver 's wounded pride may take a little more work . |
| 18 | That creature must have been travelling at 60 miles per hour . |
| 19 | But missiles like Polaris and Minuteman and the Russian SS could make the journey within half-an-hour and arrive at 10,000 miles per hour , rendering the SAMS impotent . |
| 20 | We had barely enough food for three months , let alone the four and a half it would take at fifteen miles a day . |
| 21 | Pensioner 's car hit at eighty miles an hour . |
| 22 | Its the same as making a formula one car go at 200 miles an hour for each and every driver … handling is down to individual skill |
| 23 | Figures taken at 7744 miles by our own staff at the Lotus group proving ground , Millbrook . |
| 24 | He aimed at fifteen miles a day , and they would march down the southern flanks of the Pentland Hills , to Biggar and Broughton and thence by Tweedsmuir to Moffat , at the head of Annandale , some sixty miles . |
| 25 | ‘ I could have run faster but I did not have the confidence to go at 14 miles , ’ said Evans . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd settle for a few years with four legs like a cheetah and be able to go at forty miles an hour , ’ Otley declared . |
| 27 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 28 | So if you were caught speeding at 90 miles an hour along the M4 in Wiltshire your fine would calculate something like this |
| 29 | Speeding at 20 miles an hour over the limit is a five unit crime . |
| 30 | I 'm sure the advice for the wealthy to hire a personal bodyguard is useful but I 'm not quite sure if I agree with the investment possibilities of ‘ Aeronautics engineer Paul Moller 's flying car , the M200X , which could allow four people to cruise at 322 miles an hour ’ , thus allaying any fears about the collapse of the transport infrastructure . |