Bernard Avishai observes: In the first place, most people — that is, according to DOT figures, 78% of people — drive less than 40 miles back-and-forth to work or doing chores around the home.
A dancer in the "Folies Bergère" won three of the eight events: the 50-yard dash, the 100-yard dash and the half-mile (back and forth) walk.
"I traveled 2,500 miles back and forth" ferrying the sculptures, he said.
The next three miles, back and forth through Docklands, were hell.
— Every Saturday, Eugene Milanaik, a nurse anesthetist, walks more than five miles back and forth between his Orthodox synagogue and his weekend house on Dune Road.
PRICE from £8,345 ENGINE CAPACITY 1.0l 3-cyl petrol POWER OUTPUT (BHP @ RPM) 65 @ 5,500 TOP SPEED (mph) 96 FUEL ECONOMY (mpg) 60.1 CO2 EMISSIONS (g/km) 108 Earlier this, I drove close to 1,000 miles back and forth across Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire and Worcestershire.
Throughout the 1970's, driving tens of thousands of miles back and forth across the United States, Mr. Shore, who is now 56 and continues to make photographs, and to teach, took painstakingly detailed pictures that are time-tagged by the cars, the signs, the architecture, the details and the spoors of American culture.
So Ms. Alfredo has been spending her nights in Uige, walking the long miles back and forth from her village with a small stove and assorted pots balanced on her head, another of the countless numbers of Angolans whom fear has confined to crowded cities, separated from the land.
Traveling by car, plane, foot, boat, train and bicycle, they have drawn an enormous butterfly in Nottingham; a spirograph around Upton; and a few free-form designs, which in one case entailed riding a lawn mower 18 miles back and forth across Oxfordshire Garden.
And, as far as I could see, neither did anyone else, though most of us must have marched at least five miles back and forth in the hope of finding a more propitious station whereon to stab the air with our thumbs: futile Jack Horners were we.
