The basic unit of land grant was the township, which was a square area measuring six miles on each side.
A comet measuring eight miles across is going to collide with Earth in 34 days and kill us all, which, I assume, will deal yet another setback to the traditional television industry.
FROMMER'S -- More breezy and less thorough than Fodor's, Frommer's is given to unattractive boldfaces and bullet-style info-bits of dubious value (in the "Did You Know?" section: "A Spaniard, Josep Gruguès, cooked the world's largest sausage, measuring three miles long").
Most of Assam is a flood plain dissected by the Brahmaputra river, which measures five miles across in parts.
In the years after the collapse of Communism in 1991, Ms. Grimsted said, the Russians would point to the Smolensk files as a reason for their refusal to return those from other countries -- in particular, the vast collection of documents, said to measure four miles in shelf space, that had been taken by the Nazis from Paris and were later captured by the Red Army.
A sheen of between two and 23 tonnes of gas condensate, measuring six nautical miles in length, was reported on the water nearby.
A sheen of between two and 23 tonnes of gas condensate, and measuring six nautical miles in length, has been reported on the water nearby, and Total has activated its Oil Pollution Emergency Plan.
The Land Ordinance of 1785 had created six-mile-square townships divided into 36 sections, each measuring one square mile, or 640 acres.
For an island that only measures nine miles by five, there are an awful lot of roads to ramble.
As another step, East Germany established elaborate security measures three miles in depth along its eight-hundred-and-sixty-mile border with West Germany.
Anguilla measures sixteen miles by three miles and there is only one grass running track on the island which Zharnel first trained on.
