The word "miles" is correct and usable in written English
You can use the word "miles" to describe a unit of distance measuring approximately 1,609 meters. For example, "He drove three miles to get to work this morning."
Scheduled to make the 1,492km 9277 miles) journey every day except Christmas Day, the A320 plane has seen passengers delayed for as little as two minutes and as long as 12 hours and 18 minutes.
We went 60 miles west of Scilly and 60 miles west of Finistere to avoid submarines".
The US satellite photos showed Russian troops at bases 50 miles from the border.
Among the puzzles vexing investigators are how a man who had lost almost seven pints of blood could have made his way 70-odd miles across country - and what happened to him in the at least three days that he was missing.
In many African countries, those at risk often have to spend huge amounts of money and travel hundreds of miles to reach heart specialists concentrated in main urban centres.
Whoever fired at her hadn't been able to track her down with dogs and dispose of the tag because the shot had not immediately been fatal: Betty had flapped on for several miles before collapsing on the ground.
But remember, if you're looking at six or eight bedroom houses you'll need to start looking early to make sure you don't end up miles away from civilisation.
Her death on Saturday, which is being treated as a "tragic accident" by both Network Rail and the British Transport police, happened just a few miles down the track from where Olivia and Charlotte were killed.
Zuwara is popular because it is close to Sicily, 300 miles north, and because it is populated by ethnic Amazigh (Berbers), who exclude outside security forces, giving smugglers a freer hand, according to Tripoli police.
Every 300km [186 miles] we stopped at an empty house where we were given water and a sandwich.
A military source said the shooting took place around the Damboa road near the small settlement of Mule, about six miles (10km) from Maiduguri, a city of 2 million people.
