3. Reflect in as many different distance units as possible (inches, feet, miles, nautical miles, etc).
And unlike the rest of Latin America, measurements here are in inches, feet, miles, and acres -- so no metric conversions are necessary.
And as someone who migrated to Manhattan at roughly Carrie's age, I felt the writing tugging me back to exactly how those first months feel -- when, for example, Carrie finds herself staring at the passing crowds, imagining "the number of foot-miles each block of sidewalk supported each day".
She is carrying her grandson on foot for miles to save his life.
Last year she broke her foot three miles into the marathon at the Beijing Olympics.
From Minehead, he'll go by foot 260 miles to Land's End and then by boat to Isles of Scilly.
From March 23 to September 14, 2010, he essentially crossed the nation on foot: 2,448 miles from Tampa to Los Angeles.
Rising about 28,250 feet, K2 is surpassed in height only by Mount Everest (more than 29,000 feet), 800 miles to the southeast.
We can't continue to build four-thousand-square-foot houses miles outside cities".
Progress may be slow -- measured in inches and feet, not miles -- but we will progress.
Innovations in plastics and monofilaments lengthened fishing lines from feet to miles.
