Sentence examples for miles has only from inspiring English sources

He says "his" stretch of Iceland (Skaftafell to Hvalnes, roughly 100 miles) has only 800 rooms – "maybe a maximum of 1,600 beds" – and that's in the context of the Icelandic population of 320,000 plus 600,000 visitors a year.

Methamphetamine is easy to cook locally, Sheriff Johnson said, because his county of 450 square miles has only 10 law enforcement officers, and one of the drug's main ingredients -- anhydrous ammonia -- is an agricultural fertilizer that lies about in abundant supply in bags on isolated farm fields, almost waiting to be stolen.

The two clubs, who are separated by less than 40 miles, have only ever spent two seasons in the same division - when both sides were in the old Division Four between 1978 and 1980.

A number of the 114 hutongs left in Dazhalan, where 57,000 residents are crammed into an area of less than a quarter square mile, have only public toilets.

Albany, eight miles south, has only one riverfront restaurant, and it is just now building a pedestrian bridge over the interstate that blocks foot traffic to the water.

The big dial has neither numerals nor minute markers; since it was intended to be consulted at distances of up to 20 miles it has only five-minute markers.

"There is no rhyme or reason why one client would have such an exorbitant amount taken out when another no more than 3 miles away has only 20percentt of their royalty taken," said Harold Moyer, an accountant in Bradford County, Pa., who represents more than 150 landowners with royalty rights.

The Dominion Semiconductor announcement put Manassas on the national map, but the 10-square-mile city has only limited space for new facilities.

The Sheridan County sheriff's office, responsible for patrolling Whiteclay, is 19 miles away and has only five deputies.

In fact you can walk pretty much anywhere on Saba; this Dutch Caribbean island is just five miles long and has only one road.

Budget projections for the current financial year forecast US$266 million in revenue from the programme, enough to cover the entire national education budget of a country less than thirty miles across that has only 72,000 residents.