The phrase "a mile of open" is not a complete or standard expression in written English, but it can be understood in context.
It can be used to describe a vast, unobstructed area, often in relation to land or space.
Example: "As we reached the top of the hill, we were greeted by a mile of open fields stretching out before us."
Alternatives: "a stretch of open" or "an expanse of open".
Some 23,000 Union infantry charged across a mile of open ground to seize the pits.
It was fraught with danger, as setting foot in the half a mile of open land that must be crossed to reach Israel can mean death.
In contrast, the original 13,000 attacking Confederates were depleted by artillery fire as they marched over nearly a mile of open ground.
Leaving the road, they drove across a mile of open country to photograph a mud-walled fort where Taliban tanks had been hit by another airstrike in November.
Swimming, on the other hand, is forbidden, but wading is rampant, and if you ford the stream and walk westward, you have about a mile of open sand upon which to roam.
The runaway would have to have passed undetected through that ring of sentries, perhaps by lying in the bottom of his boat and letting the tide carry him, then, at close range, manning his oars and rushed the Monitor — all told a mile of open water.
With half a mile of tunnels open, he said, "they had places to exercise and to use for waste".
Recent studies in California have found that property values within a mile of the open space increased in value by as much as 8percentto10percentcent, Dr. Krantz said.
I crossed a mile of shadowed, shallow, open water (dry — secca — is the name for such areas, accessible only by motorless, flat-bottomed boats) and entered a dredged-out channel called Canale Orfano, the Orphan Canal.
"Again, all hands were called to quarters, and when she approached within a mile of us I opened upon her with my stern guns and made a signal to the Monitor to attack the enemy," Van Brunt added.
Between the two sites are 201 mile of open trail, marked only by a dog drop at Scroggie Creek, an abandoned gold-mining site activated only during the Yukon Quest.
