Sentence examples for mile width from inspiring English sources

The mile width of the Mersey has not protected Birkenhead from equal suffering.

It formed a crescent of about 1.5 mile length and 0.75 mile width.

In support of the main journey, therefore, a separate Ross Sea party would land in McMurdo Sound and would lay a series of supply depots across the 400 mile width of the Barrier, to assist the crossing group home.

Heavy showers turned the roads into quagmires that slowed McClellan's army, giving Magruder time to entrench himself across the 12-mile width of the peninsula.

Streetlights are turned off and torches lighted, and the ancient crucifix is carried for about two hours across the half-mile width of Old Town from the Church of San Frediano to the cathedral.

With its half-mile width, riding beside the Han can feel like riding by the seaside, especially given the attractions placed in the parks all along the way: boat rides, eateries, playgrounds and outdoor gyms.

The central Transantarctic Mountains are a polar fastness of superlatives: highest summit of the entire Transantarctic Mountains, Mt. Kirkpatrick (14,856 feet); largest outlet glacier, Beardmore Glacier (>100 miles in length, average 12 miles width); and outlet glacier with greatest discharge, Byrd Glacier (~20 km3/yr).

The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 was almost a mile in width.

Dore Gold, an adviser to the prime minister, said the zones could be more than half a mile in width and include fences and mobile patrols.

To the west the river again narrows to about a mile in width, and the current is fast at Green Island Rapids, about 12 miles (20 km) east of Fort Simpson.

For four miles in length, and nearly a half mile in width, the ground is strewn with … hats, caps, clothing, canteens, knapsacks, shells, and shot.