Sentence examples for as a mile from inspiring English sources

The island is 33 miles long, but rarely as much as a mile wide.

They may be a few blocks or as much as a mile apart.

(Some of yesterday's tornadoes are thought to have been as wide as a mile).

A wall label notes that a skilled marksman could pick off a man as far as a mile away.

The adults live in moist ground cover, as much as a mile from where they breed, feasting on insects.

A miss is as good as a mile, after all: and a near miss worst of all.

You can run an EV for as little as 2p a mile, kicking petrol and diesel into the dust.

An individual's transportation cost per mile falls to as low as 25 cents a mile, or roughly 1/10th that of a traditional taxi, Jonas said.

The damage in Alabama was scattered across the northern and central parts of the state as a mile-wide tornado lumbered upward from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham.

Wright spent decades refining his Broadacre City, an ideal suburb that afforded each car-driving family an acre of land — but he also envisioned such urban inventions as a mile-high skyscraper, chunky tower blocks for Chicago, and four pinwheel apartment buildings that came close to fruition on the grounds of St. Mark's Church in the East Village.

He means his tally of air miles, of course, or rather his goal as a miles collector: ten million.