Sentence examples for miles broad from inspiring English sources

Lowland forests and evergreen bushland form a long belt of land some 125 miles broad along the Indian Ocean.

The Kingdom of Mourne, as the tourist office likes to call it, contains more than 20 mountains, 12 of them with peaks of over 2,000ft, all conveniently grouped together in a range that is just seven miles broad and about 14 miles long.

To the Editor: I read with interest Gina Kolata's column, hoping to find an answer as to why I ran six miles in Philadelphia's 10-mile Broad Street Run despite intense pain that resulted in a stress fracture and no running for at least six weeks.

Nicknamed the Golden Mile, Broad Street runs through Birmingham's Westside district and hosts the city's Walk of Stars, the local equivalent of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, featuring tributes to Brummies like Ozzy Osbourne, Jasper Carrott and Noddy Holder.

Nearly 400 miles long and 50 miles wide at its broadest, the lake is a chasm just over a mile deep, formed by a crack in the earth's crust.

Skip the developed mid-island and stick to the northeast end, where St. George Island State Park (850-927-2111) protects nine miles of broad beach.

But it retains the perfumy drawl and relaxed Southern charm that for decades has drawn vacationers to its tree-lined streets and to 35 miles of broad, sandy beaches 20 minutes west of downtown.

The miles of broad white sand beaches there are dotted with tiny pastel-painted beach huts, holdovers from the days when changing clothes in public was a punishable offense.

"On the South and West Sides in particular, the shrinkage has left vast empty lots, miles of broad streets," Bey writes.

Subsequent drilling outlined a broad anticline about 24 km (15 miles) wide by 40 km (24 miles) long, which has a continuous basal Permian sandstone reservoir capped by evaporites.

Ten miles wide here, the St . Lawrenceis more than double the broadest part of the Mississippi, and its varied blues stretch for miles.