Sentence examples for miles came from inspiring English sources

The now generally accepted limit of 12 nautical miles came into effect only during the 20th century.

Most of the big air miles came from Scottish and Northern Irish MPs.

We had an hour to kill before our lift, so I started playing some chords on the electric piano – and I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) came straight away.

Ms. Miles came to New York after growing up on a tobacco and cotton farm in Pelham, Ga., longer ago than she cares to be specific about.

"I went to the funeral of this kid and it looked like every person in a hundred miles came, most of them under fifteen," Jock told me, when we met, in Kigali, in April of last year.

c8e41268-6a42-43f3-9da1-d1d08f881ebd LONDON — Even when the victories and the miles came easy to Paula Radcliffe, it has always looked like a struggle, her head jerking with each stride as if the effort were too much for her slender frame and agile mind to handle.

I'm going to make 70 miles come hell or high water".

Then in the last 10 miles, coming back into Kathmandu, darkness fell on the third night – and that really hits you.

The de facto government along much of its 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) comes from Colombia's FARC guerrilla group, or the ELN, its smaller rival.

Mileage awards do not just accumulate from flying -- now about 39percentt of all frequent-flier miles come from transactions with hotels and credit card companies.

The jihadists, rolling southward towards Baghdad, were soon up against a border with Kurdistan that stretches for more than 1,000km (621 miles), coming almost within artillery range of Erbil.