The phrase "against miles" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a comparison or contrast involving distance, but without additional context, it is unclear how to use it appropriately.
Example: "The journey felt long, but we were against miles of open road ahead."
Alternatives: "in opposition to distances" or "contrary to miles".
In rows across one big flat field, he keeps some 1,300 trees trained up against miles of high tension hog-wire grids -- a material normally used to fence in swine.
Houston got the inbound pass and dribbled upcourt against Miles.
In retaliation against Miles' earlier attacks on the royalist city of Worcester and the castles of Hereford and Wallingford, King Stephen bestowed the title "Earl of Hereford" on Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester; Miles, however, never surrendered the earldom nor the title to Robert de Beaumont.
It was hypothesized that Rhinoncomimus latipes (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), the biological control agent released against mile-a-minute weed, Persicaria perfoliata (Polygonaceae), would not feed or oviposit on nontarget plants in a two-phase, open field setting.
"We are not competing against the taxi industry, rather we are competing against total miles driven for every single vehicle on the road".
Since his breakout game against Kansas City Miles Austin has been on fire with 5 touchdowns on 21 receptions for 482 yards.
Stauber now has to learn how to defend a much larger net without a stick against 100-mile-per-hour shots that sometimes curve.
"When you have to stand in there against 98-mile-per-hour cheese, or have to turn a double play in front of 30,000 people, that's a lot to try to respond to," Collins said in a telephone interview.
During the experiments, these specimens are put in their location in the test machine and tightened and then vertically loaded against the mile located at the center of the motor.
We used HR0.5 to represent a daily movement metric; when individual species movements were plotted against road mile markers, 71.2% of 72 species found in North America were included at distances of ⩽1 mi.
In an Asian Cup qualification match against Bahrain, Mile Sterjovski received a cross-field pass which was played first-time back in to the penalty area, Bresciano reacting quickly to turn his body horizontally and strike the ball on the volley into the net.
