Example sentences of "[prep] the mile " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said in 1976 that a tuned track could shave as much as 7 seconds off the record for the mile . |
| 2 | By now John should have become the first 40-year-old to break four minutes for the mile . |
| 3 | George won the English championship for the mile and the four miles in 1879 and the same distances at the inaugural Amateur Athletic Association championships , which were open to the world in the following year . |
| 4 | Britain 's Olympic 1500 metres medal hope Peter Elliott will attempt to break the track record of 3 min 56 sec for the mile at Herringthorpe Stadium , Rotherham tonight when he makes his comeback on his home ground . |
| 5 | YVONNE MURRAY set a UK all-comers record of 4min 32.0sec for the mile in the Great Britain v US Vauxhall International at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham on Saturday . |
| 6 | But perfectionist Noureddine Morceli felt his two all-comers ' marks — 3:50.70 for the mile as well as 3:34.73 for the 1,500m en route — were no consolation for just missing out on Eamonn Coghlan 's world mile record . |
| 7 | A Scottish indoor record of 3min 57.57sec for the mile and a 1,500m in 3:40.7 as well as several fine competitive performances in the US gave him the right racing background and confidence to tackle Toronto . |
| 8 | Putting on weight as fat deposits — food and fuel for the long journey ahead — their entire bodies become covered with mucus in preparation for the miles of slithering travel . |
| 9 | The nine floors below the level of the Bridge are mainly used for the miles of shelving for ‘ stacking ’ the books . |
| 10 | What is nice about the AX diesel is that you can smile smugly about the miles you are effortlessly squeezing from every gallon , in the knowledge you have sacrificed little along the way . |
| 11 | The newly opted-out hospital trust is trying to close Casualty and is running down the wards of the Mile End branch of the Royal London Hospital , which has been serving the East End well since 1858 . |
| 12 | The 180-cow Mileoak Holstein Friesians of J K Smith & Son , of The Mile House , Leighton , Crewe , were third . |
| 13 | " Think of the miles of danger . |
| 14 | Immeasurably distant on the horizon stood a pair of rugby posts , so high that they were clearly visible despite the miles that seemed to separate them from him . |
| 15 | A charcuterie in Aurillac or Vic-sur-Cère or some other small but locally important town will possibly provide a pâté the like of which you never tasted before , or a locally cured ham , a few slices of which you will buy and carry away with a salad , a kilo of peaches , a bottle of Monbazillac and a baton of bread , and somewhere on a hillside amid the mile upon mile of golden broom or close to a splashing waterfall you will have , just for once , the ideal picnic . |
| 16 | Usually he got palmed off with the Mile End Road , stabbings in Chinatown , Lascars , opium dens — you name it , Stitch was on the case . |
| 17 | My journey should also ensure that the Clio clocks up the miles quickly , helping readers to gauge the French supermini 's durability . |
| 18 | About 200 joined the march along the Mile End Road . |
| 19 | He had given up his Saturday job in the supermarket some time back , so today he would just drive and drive , drifting along the miles of highway toward Edmonton . |
| 20 | Man 's place in these photographs is indicated , apart from the miles of clearcut ground , by tiny trucks and a speck-sized helicopter touched dawn in a clearing : Man seems like an adventurer who occurs somewhat late in geophysical history and his influence on the earth 's surface seems incommensurate with either his scale or his significance . |
| 21 | And two unexploded bombs in the Mile End Road . |
| 22 | Dermot Weld 's Brief Truce , the country 's only challenger , turned in a tremendous performance , surviving bad luck in running , to take third in the Mile , beating Selkirk and Arazi . |
| 23 | An anti-Fascist march soon after the Cable Street incident was the occasion for Mosley 's supporters to go on the rampage in the Mile End Road , smashing the windows of shops whose owners were Jewish and inflicting injury at random . |
| 24 | Fired with enthusiasm , she went on to say that she intended to go to Wickhams , the East End 's own department store , in the Mile End Road . |
| 25 | Standing by the old boiler , stirring the seething mass of laundry with a copper-stick , she explained about the accident in the Mile End Road . |
| 26 | Last night I visited the Queen Mary and Westfield college in the Mile End road and I was told that it was soon to have a level of computers of almost one work station for every six students . |
| 27 | Now I was keenly aware of where I ranked in the mile , half-mile and three miles . |
| 28 | What the Stag has which most modern cars do not is the endearing ability to amble quickly , to lope effortlessly , reeling in the miles without really trying . |
| 29 | Tiki Kyte in the front and Angie Butler at the back are putting in the miles around the country lanes of Oxfordshire . |
| 30 | That is the cost of petrol for a journey will be dependent upon the miles travelled ( the independent variable ) . |