Sentence examples for a length of two miles from inspiring English sources

From this experience plus limited trial at the Hecla Mine in Idaho, the first major use of coarse-aggregate shotcrete for tunnel support in North America developed in 1967 on the Vancouver Railroad Tunnel, with a cross section 20 by 29 feet high and a length of two miles.

Last month federal and state regulators granted a permit for a giant silver and copper mine that would burrow a length of three miles under a federal wilderness area, 900 feet below the snowy ridges and the lodgepole pine.

The perimeter of the siege-works which the Romans were beginning had a length of eleven miles.

70 When the siege-work had been started, a cavalry encounter took place in the plain which we have described above as set between hills and extending to a length of three miles.

My story was set on Sark: a careless, street-lamp-less Channel Island with a tip-to-toe length of three miles, and I'd chosen a novella because I wanted the form to be similar in size.

Savage calculated a length of four hours.

It is the mother of all the islands, geographically speaking, with a length of nearly eight hundred miles, but it is not exempted from the Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes that sweep in at the end every end of summer, sometimes with devastating effects.

Before the town a plain extended for a length of about three miles; on all the other sides there were hills surrounding the town at a short distance, and equal to it in height.

Seven hiking trails wind a total of five miles (8 km) through the park; three of the seven trails are less than one mile (1.6 km) in length.

With a length of 2,640 miles (4,248 km), it is one of the continent's longest rivers.

It has a length of 430 miles (690 km).