Example sentences of "[det] a mile " in BNC.
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| 1 | Convoys half a mile long are watched over by scattered Afghan army outposts on the hills by the road . |
| 2 | The club is planning to sell its present ground in east London and move half a mile down the road to create a leisure and community centre . |
| 3 | The only surviving group of such installations can be explored at Curry Mallet near Taunton , Somerset , where three large gun emplacements with three-foot-thick concrete walls were built to house six-pounder anti-tank guns with a range of half a mile . |
| 4 | The Blue Guide lists almost 20 museums , churches and galleries within a circular area about half a mile across . |
| 5 | Henry Cecil 's colt proved himself a thorough stayer when running on strongly at the end of the 1 ¾ miles of the St Leger on rain-softened ground at Ayr , but the Champion is run over half a mile less . |
| 6 | ‘ They are about half a mile or so away , ’ he replied , ‘ and , most important , they are our guns . |
| 7 | About half a mile away an attack is going in on a hill , I can see Commandos advancing up the slopes , shells burst a short distance in front of the forward troops , probably covering fire from the British Artillery . |
| 8 | When Michael was 5 the family moved house , only half a mile , to a larger house nearer Magdalene College , Howfield beyond Castle Hill . |
| 9 | It was half a mile to the chip shop , so you had to get a head start . |
| 10 | Charlie , 50 , battled for 35 minutes to beat the specimen which was hooked in 70 feet of water half a mile off Stout Point near Aberthaw , Mid-Glamorgan . |
| 11 | Our position is too exposed , so we have to back off and try again half a mile to our right . |
| 12 | Christmas shoppers were given 25 minutes to evacuate the area before the van exploded in Market Street only half a mile away from the headquarters of the British Army in Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | At around 6am we heard heavy machinegun fire from the direction of the Deni , the investigative branch of the PDF , about half a mile from the commission headquarters and dangerously close to US and Panamanian civilian housing . |
| 14 | The site chosen for the house was in a wooded grove , sheltered from northerly gales and half a mile from the sea . |
| 15 | After half a mile he decided to turn off the embankment and walk up the side of the next field and along the path at the top of it , following the horses whom he could still see in the distance . |
| 16 | In a windy , cold field in Cambridgeshire , green with winter wheat , half a mile away from where Angela Morgan 's body had been found , a small man with a narrow , turned-down mouth sat smoking his twentieth cigarette of the day at the wheel of a Land Rover . |
| 17 | We were not merely ready to welcome strange things when we had walked half a mile up a lane and met no man , but we were in a gracious condition for receiving whatever might fall to us . |
| 18 | I ran back half a mile of road to get a glimpse of her in the distance , though we had passed her half an hour before , & of course she was out of sight on the Downs . |
| 19 | They will take you half a mile for a packet of Marlboros — for a carton , they 'll fight each other for the privilege of taking you all the way ( eighteen miles ) out to Sheremtyevo airport . |
| 20 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |
| 21 | Setting his face towards the barrow , which was still perhaps half a mile away in dramatic relief against the angry sky , he had the feeling that he was bring followed ; that wherever he went , and no matter how fast he covered the ground , his every move was shadowed . |
| 22 | Alongside and beneath the alley , Mucky Beck rushed for half a mile past walled mill-ponds , wasteland and cinder piles all the way from Shearbridge Road to Cheshum Street . |
| 23 | With about half a mile to go Elliott decided that it was time to make a move , and in a matter of a few strides Phar Lap had stormed up from last to first . |
| 24 | Such was the speed that Dancing Brave showed when winning the General Accident Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket that some felt that the Derby — half a mile longer than the Guineas — might not be his race , but he took his chance at Epsom and started 2–1 favourite . |
| 25 | This order was maintained as the runners came past the stands and started to make their way along the back stretch , and with half a mile to go the field was tightly bunched . |
| 26 | Very late though it is , there is a formica-clad coffee or hamburger bar still open less than half a mile away and I have enough cash in hand to buy my first food of the day and my first hot drink . |
| 27 | I once saw Eddie travel nearly half a mile like that . |
| 28 | Otherwise they are half a mile away and it is ridiculous . |
| 29 | On she walked , quarter of a mile , half a mile , watching the sun begin to set and knowing that when it touched the horizon she might see the horse coming and Ferdinando waving and maybe , if he was not slumped asleep in the saddle in front of his father , maybe another small hand too . |
| 30 | Half a mile along the road , however , I was diverted by a nature-trail which wound up the side of a hill and promised a fine view . |