Sentence examples for miles in height from inspiring English sources

The rim consists of a ring of irregular mountain blocks approaching 3 km (2 miles) in height, the highest mountains yet seen on Mercury, bounded on the interior by a relatively steep slope, or escarpment.

According to an eyewitness, Pliny the Younger, writing 20 years after the event, the cloud reached nine miles in height (it resembled a fir tree, he said) and dropped burning ash upon the town.

It weighs a seventh of the steel cables, so is more energy efficient, has twice the lifespan, and most notably, it makes lifts of up to 1km (0.6 miles) in height a lot easier to build.

It was felt over 100 mile away, and the mushroom cloud reached 7.5 mile in height.

The shock wave was felt over 100 mi away, and the mushroom cloud reached 7.5 mile in height.

Among 50 reports that New Horizons scientists will present this week is a startling look at two mountains on the surface of Pluto, each measuring more than 100 miles (161 km) in diameter and several miles (km) in height.

If you stand our choir alongside the choir from a school a couple of miles away, the difference in height is amazing: their pupils are so much bigger.

The glacier is now only 0.5 mile in width, 150 feet in height, and extends for 13 mile.

Coastguards in Devon said they were expecting "phenomenal" waves about 12 miles offshore, possibly reaching 45ft (14m) in height.

Dione's Janiculum Dorsa ranges from about 0.6 to 1.2 miles (1 to 2 kilometers) in height.

But to capture from the air the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by, say, a 1,000-megawatt 1,000-megawattnt, it would require air-sucoalg machinery about 30 feet in height and 18 miles in length, according to a study by the American powercal Society, as well as huge collection facilities and a network of equiplant to transport and store the waste underground.