Example sentences of "[prep] [art] 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 | Then , it was elbow-dodging for the first few hundred yards , but after a mile I found myself in front . |
| 12 | This climbs steadily in surroundings that become quite austere , reaching more open country after a mile and a half between walls and fences . |
| 13 | Interest quickens after a mile when Turbary Pot appears by the side of the track . |
| 14 | From Dent , the street opposite the Sedgwick memorial is taken ; this soon becomes a country lane followed for a mile and a half to Deepdale Methodist Chapel , ignoring a signposted branch to Ingleton after a mile . |
| 15 | The road out of Ingleton spirals to gain height and after a mile straightens course and passes Skirwith Farm . |
| 16 | From the end of the lane , a circular walk may be made as suggested on the map , starting along the path to Selside but turning off after a mile to aim due north for the far end of the Allotment wall . |
| 17 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |
| 18 | After a mile the path turned sharply south and the ravine opened into a shallow cup-like depression three or four acres in extent . |
| 19 | After a mile or two which took an hour to cover they found the way blocked by sodden ground . |
| 20 | After a mile , at the bridge over the River Isle , cross the stile next to the gate on the left and follow the track by the river to the old Midelney Locks . |
| 21 | After a mile , the road passes through a small hamlet . |
| 22 | and after a mile we stopped to lower the seat . |
| 23 | After a mile or so , Ockleton turned off the main Chipping Norton road and headed east up a narrow lane that breasted the downs above the Windrush valley . |
| 24 | After a mile or two of expecting the Range Rover in pursuit it finally came home to her that Penry had no intention of following her . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The 180-cow Mileoak Holstein Friesians of J K Smith & Son , of The Mile House , Leighton , Crewe , were third . |
| 27 | " Think of the miles of danger . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The families of guests were drifting along the river bank towards Donald Steuart 's a quarter of a mile upstream . |