Miles
Meanings and phrases
Miles Davis
- United States jazz musician; noted for his trumpet style (1926-1991); Davis; Miles Dewey Davis Jr.
Miles Dewey Davis Jr .
- United States jazz musician; noted for his trumpet style (1926-1991); Davis; Miles Davis
Miles Standish
- English colonist in America; leader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony (1584-1656); Standish; Myles Standish
Timothy Miles Bindon Rice
- English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944); Rice; Sir Tim Rice
miles gloriosus
- a braggart soldier (a stock figure in comedy)
n.
- the distance traveled in a vehicle powered by one gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel
- The miles per gallon gasoline equivalent is based on the energy content of gasoline.
- The 2015 e-Golf has a range of , and combined city/highway efficiency of 116 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent (MPGe).
- A report in August 1925 on the performance of the Board's bus fleet mentioned that the Garford had a fuel efficiency of 5.72 miles per gallon.
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- the ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours); mph
- a speedometer reading for the momentary rate of travel; mph
- The maximum speed limit is 30 miles per hour.
- Aircraft travel at 10,000 miles per hour.
- During the storm, oak wilt spread at up to 100 miles per hour.
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- The district covers approximately 125 square miles.
- The total area for the MSA is 1,902.45 square miles.
- The district had an area of eleven square miles.
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- It was located 9.7 miles north of Marianna, Florida.
- It is located 70 miles north of Dnipropetrovsk.
- Bassein (or Vasai) is about 30 miles north of Bombay.
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- Landeck is located a few miles outside of Delphos.
- It was located a few miles southeast of Clay Center.
- It is situated a few miles to the west of Darlington.
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- The neighborhood is five miles south of The Loop.
- Central London is about 60 miles south of M40 junction 10.
- The pass is a few miles south of Grand Teton National Park.
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- They trace Orson to his lake cabin 70 miles away.
- It was strong enough to be felt several miles away.
- Carbost lies around 2.5 miles away from Portnalong.
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- This gave a range of 3,500 nautical miles at 15 knots.
- Cameroon controls 12 nautical miles of the Atlantic Ocean.
- He recorded the distance as 3,618 nautical miles (6710 km).
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- Oakville is 35 miles west of Winnipeg off highway 13.
- Latitude Festival takes place a couple of miles west.
- It is located three miles west of Ochopee on U.S. 41.
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- The site is around three miles east of Trébeurden.
- It was located about six miles east of Woonsocket.
- It is two miles east of Mott on North Dakota Highway 21.
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- It was strong enough to be felt several miles away.
- Carroll retired several miles north on the Luray Road.
- The highway continues on for several miles in this way.
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- The maximum speed limit is 30 miles per hour.
- Aircraft travel at 10,000 miles per hour.
- During the storm, oak wilt spread at up to 100 miles per hour.
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- The campus is 15 miles northwest of Scranton on U.S.
- It is 12 miles northwest of Lincoln on the A156 road.
- Wheatley house, about 2 miles northwest of Kelly's Ford.
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- It stands on a hill about ten miles from Lincoln.
- He introduced the penny postage to areas within ten miles of Sydney.
- "The body of a sailor was found ten miles this side of Point Abbaye."
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- It is about two miles southwest of Mount Carmel.
- They began a large-scale rebellion 75 miles southwest of Delhi.
- It lies just off the A53 main road about 4 miles southwest of Buxton.
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- It is located 15 miles northeast of Monrovia.
- It is located 17.5 miles northeast of Yermo, California.
- The site is located about 5 miles northeast of Stroudsburg.
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- Auburn is five miles southeast of Downtown Greeley.
- It was located a few miles southeast of Clay Center.
- The convoy was then 200 miles southeast of the Azores.
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- Cross Bay Boulevard is approximately 7 miles long.
- The outer loop trail around the lake is 10.3 miles long.
- 4 wires, each of which was four miles long.
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- The channel's waterway is three and a half miles in length.
- The most fished reaches are the lower three and a half miles.
- Irby is just over five and a half miles from the village of Keelby.
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- Alaskans often include winter camping on longer journeys of a hundred miles or more.
- There were several reports of 50 people killed in Beijing, a hundred miles from the epicenter.
- The city is square in shape, and is twelve thousand furlongs long and wide (fifteen hundred miles).
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- She now resides in 74 ft. of water about seven miles off Chicago.
- She rests upright in 70' in Lake Michigan about 10 miles off Chicago's coast.
- The town is located about 16 miles off of U.S. Route 93, about south of Kingman.
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- Own hundreds of miles in russia
- The GAP project includes 22 dams, hundreds of miles of irrigation works.
- "My parents were country people, born hundreds of miles apart, a distance filled with difficulties.
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- For many miles the road ran through snow.
- From this location, one could see for many miles in all directions.
- Background: Lance grew up in a small town many miles from the city of Haven.
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- (In some other accounts the stated distances range from fourteen to twenty miles).
- Locust Grove was the family estate on the Susquehanna River, twenty miles below Harrisburg.
- He is dedicated to health and fitness, running twenty miles daily and practicing Kundalini yoga.
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- Landeck is located a few miles outside of Delphos.
- They later moved to a large house on a 440-acre farm two miles outside Usk.
- Robert Gundlach was born in 1926 in a small town several miles outside Buffalo.
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- Coconut fruits can float thousands of miles in the ocean to spread seeds.
- People traveled thousands of miles to celebrations that they all owned communally.
- Trading networks were extensive, spreading thousands of miles throughout the region.
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- It is circling the Sun at 63,000 mph and 54 million miles from the Earth.
- WASP-104b's orbital period is 1.8 days; it is located 2.6 million miles from its star and has an orbital radius of .
- I was driving back home, feeling frustrated, and I said, "Lord, You seem so far away, a million miles or more it feels today."
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- It has a prominent spire that may be seen for miles around.
- Debris was strewn for miles around, with red-hot chunks of rubble causing fires.
- The high Hillmorton Wireless Aerials, built in 1924, are a significant landmark for miles around.
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- The pass is a few miles south of Grand Teton National Park.
- The parish is on the Mulwaree River a few miles south of Tarago.
- Nine Mile, Jamaica Nine Mile is a district in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, a few miles south of Brown's Town.
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- The current facility replaced the former campus a few miles away.
- Kay did so before returning to live a few miles away in his native Warrington.
- Humphries was born in Kidderminster; he died aged 74 a few miles away in Rock.
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- The village is a few miles north of Narbonne.
- It is a few miles north west of the village of Portree and is in the council area of Highland.
- Parow, Germany Parow is a village a few miles north of Stralsund in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
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- Burke orders Bob, Mike and Jerry to march away twelve miles to their field base.
- On 21 March, she torpedoed the Liberty ship "James Eagan Layne" "about twelve miles off Plymouth".
- Ruins related to Bhullars are spread over an area of twelve miles near in the area of Bahawalpur in Pakistan.
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- Route 5 continues north for 10 miles before reaching Newport.
- This continues for a couple miles before entering a residential neighborhood just east of Esperanto Road.
- MT 13 proceeds in a northeasterly direction for a few miles before turning onto its main northerly orientation.
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- The channel's waterway is three and a half miles in length.
- The longest run is .9 miles in length.
- This is the longest R.J. Corman owned line, at over 300 miles in length.
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- The two campuses are about 10 miles apart.
- These two locations, although more than 200 miles apart, are considered one location.
- "My parents were country people, born hundreds of miles apart, a distance filled with difficulties.
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- Operating 303 miles of track at that time, BRI was still owned by CRIP and C&S.
- Some of the old infrastructure is still in place: six of the 21 miles of track remained in 2009.
- Some of the old infrastructure is still in place - six of the 21 miles of track remained in 2009.
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- He managed to get as far as the Enfield rapids, about 60 miles up the river.
- Go north a few miles up the Dnieper river to where the Desna River feeds into it.
- Three days later, the sloop-of-war was ordered to proceed some 150 miles up the coast to blockade Tuxpan.
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- They then established Camp Floyd about thirty miles south of Salt Lake City.
- The storage batteries of the police wagon had to be charged every thirty miles.
- In March 1968, 6,249 sheep died in Skull Valley, an area nearly thirty miles from Dugway's testing sites.
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- High Point is located approximately two miles east of the observatory.
- The hamlet is approximately two miles (3 km) north of Looe and five miles (8 km) south of Liskeard.
- The River Banwy has a confluence with the Vyrnwy approximately two miles to the west of the village.
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- Its area is estimated at 18 miles across.
- It ran for 29 miles across the open Aberdeenshire countryside.
- The bay is located in Wayne County, New York, and is 4.4 miles in length and 2.4 miles across.
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- At this time we were away from land about fifteen miles.
- The march took nine months to traverse , advancing approximately fifteen miles per day.
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- It has an average altitude of 1.015 meters or 0.0006 miles above sea level.
- A tributary, Little Orange Creek, joins from the north a few miles above the mouth of the creek.
- But the plan failed when they ran up against sandbars only 6–8 miles above the mouth of the Chena River.
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- The trail path is paved, stretching for 13 miles through rural and commercial areas.
- While they walk hundreds of miles through the desert they face hardship and life-threatening challenges.
- Inaugurated in 1986, the race was contested at miles through 1995 before being changed to its present distance of miles in 1996.
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- It lies on Abadan Island ( long, 3–19 km or 2–12 miles wide).
- Sturge Island is 23 miles long and 6 miles wide and permanently covered in a mantle of snow and ice.
- They are divided into several groups, each a few miles wide, by streams crossing them at right angles.
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- Pretty soon his thoughts began to stray, over seven thousand miles away.
- Bobby Ballenger is starting a new school a thousand miles from his old home.
- This divine snake can ride upon the clouds and fly about over a thousand miles.
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- The ruins of the 1923 version of the dam, the Old Eileen Dam , stands five miles upstream.
- Canal Flats was close to the midpoint, being just south of Columbia Lake, 124 miles upstream from Golden.
- In fact, the actual town of Newchwang was about thirty miles upstream of Liao He, within today's county-level city of Haicheng.
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- In addition, the Jiaqing Emperor was less than fifty miles from the city walls.
- Will Rogers described an expert as "A man fifty miles from home with a briefcase."
- He had seen a watch, but never a clock, such an article not being within fifty miles of him.
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- Alonso Giraldo de Terreros some three miles downstream.
- It is two miles downstream from Caballo Dam, which was built in 1938.
- The film's crash scene was filmed several miles downstream in Pope County, Illinois.
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- They caught sight of their quarry some 28 miles further and gave chase.
- Alex's first contract called for him to haul government supplies from Fort Buford, over four hundred miles further down the river.
- There was evidence the tornado continued toward mountains a few miles further east before dissipating, with some trees damaged along the ridge.
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- Roughly 6 miles inland at McIntyre, only two mill boilers were left.
- Submarines fitted with the Tomahawk could hit targets up to 1,000 miles inland.
- The Weasels were landed on the coast and drove the 100 miles inland as far as the base camp.
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- It includes about 7 miles of trail and 11 miles along parallel roads.
- The anti-nuclear demonstration stretched for 14 miles along the Kennet Valley.
- Dark mushroom clouds formed over the scene, visible for miles along Interstate 95.
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- The unpaved road extends nearly forty miles, almost to the Canada–United States border.
- Totter began her acting career in radio in the latter 1930s in Chicago, only forty miles northeast of Joliet.
- Despite the Union loss, the battle cost General Early precious time better spent advancing the forty miles toward Washington.
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- It is located two miles northeast of Eastpoint off U.S. 98/319.
- It is located two miles from the main thoroughfare of the city of Lenoir.
- Doles Ash Doles Ash is a hamlet located two miles to the east of Piddletrenthide in west Dorset, England.
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- The Maryboro General Cemetry [sic] being six miles distant...".
- As a rule, "818 Malibu" property is five or more miles distant from the Pacific Ocean.
- Her father then sets out with Laura, in a carriage, for the ruined village of Karnstein, three miles distant.
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- It is located approximately three miles north of Columbus.
- It is situated approximately three miles (5 km) east of Helston.
- The eastern lake is the smallest of the three, approximately three miles long and a mile wide.
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- It joins the Taw 1.5 miles below Lapford, just below Nymet Bridge.
- About 25 miles below Alexandria, they were attacked by Confederate infantry in force.
- Locust Grove was the family estate on the Susquehanna River, twenty miles below Harrisburg.
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- It is situated a few miles west of Darlington.
- It is situated a few miles west of Whitby.
- Born in Summit, Illinois, a few miles west of Chicago, Kluszewski was of Polish descent.
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- Airborne targets can be detected by ground-level radars at greater ranges, but, at best, several hundred miles.
- The weary and shot-torn Nationalists, meanwhile, had advanced several hundred miles with hardly a moment's pause.
- The astronauts landed several hundred miles from Pago and were transported to the islands en route back to the mainland.
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- Latitude Festival takes place a couple of miles west.
- This had been the plan, but only for a couple of miles.
- There are a few rental car agencies within a couple of miles of the station.
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- It is located three miles west of Ochopee on U.S. 41.
- The Mill is located three miles east of the community on PTH 10.
- It is located three miles southeast of Blountstown, on the Apalachicola River.
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- I was then going at 40 or 50 miles an hour.
- The best speed on the open road was about 80 miles an hour.
- Soon after departure conditions included winds of 50 miles an hour.
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- Run in December, the race is contested on dirt over a distance of miles.
- Speed record: (since 1994 at current distance of miles) Most wins by a jockey:
- A Grade 1 race for horses 3 years old and up, it was raced over a distance of miles on a dirt track.
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- Rockett is located on FM 813, approximately five miles northeast of Waxahachie.
- Ceresco is situated on the Kalamazoo River approximately five miles west of downtown Marshall.
- The geographic center of Michigan is approximately five miles (8.05 km) north-northwest of Cadillac.
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- It took four to five hours to cover the eight-to-nine miles between settlements.
- Fuel cell electric vehicles feature an average range of 314 miles between refuelings.
- The Bure Valley Railway is a 15 inch gauge railway that runs for nine miles between Aylsham and Wroxham.
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- Being about 70 miles down the coast from Scotland, the monks occasionally found themselves in between the frequently warring Scots and English.
- Lucie explains that these volumes constitute just the start guide and the manual itself has its own library a couple of miles down the corridor.
- In Anglo-Saxon times, salt making was a major industry on the Solway coast, and there are remains of medieval salt pans near Milefortlet 21, only a few miles down the coast from Salta.
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- There are approximately 20 miles of trails from 19 marked and named trailheads.
- The park has 19 miles of trails open to hiking, mountain biking and cross-country skiing.
- The preserve has become a destination mountain biking trip, with over 25 miles of trails, mostly singletrack.
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- For a few miles east of Yeovil, it forms the county boundary between Somerset and Dorset.
- George also had land at Wistanswick, a few miles east of Hodnet, at Allerton, and elsewhere in Shropshire.
- The city of Kamloops is located a few miles east of the head of the lake, at the confluence of the North and South Thompson Rivers.