Sentence examples for miles large from inspiring English sources

Other cities and states have tried variations on "My Houston," but this subtropical metropolis of 2.2 million people, the nation's most sprawling city, spread over 630 square miles — large enough to encompass Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Detroit — has a special burden: a reputation for banality, even ugliness.

Lake Baikal is the world's deepest lake (5,715 feet), and at 395 by 50 miles, larger than Lake Erie.

The Okanogan complex of wildfires was measured at 355 square miles on Saturday, about 100 miles larger than on Friday, fire spokesman Rick Isaacson said.

Its 33d edition is in Bastar, a remote tribal region in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, about 15,000 square miles — larger than Belgium.

The continent is nearly five and a half million square miles — larger than Europe — and it doubles in size in winter, when its coastal waters freeze over.

Detroit is 138.7 square miles, larger than Boston, San Francisco and Manhattan combined, but the vast majority of the new money that has poured into the city has pooled in the 7.2 square miles of downtown.

Left unanswered in the current debate is the critical question of how thousands of additional American troops might actually bring long-term stability to Afghanistan — a country 80,000 square miles larger than Iraq yet with security forces just one-fourth the size of Iraq's.

ThinkProgress' Brad Johnson points out: "The slick on the surface of the Gulf is now about 4,922 square miles, larger than Los Angeles County, Delaware, or Rhode Island.

Most of these (83%) originated from Weld and Larimer counties, which represent an area of 6,639 square miles, larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined.

The physicist Rolf-Dieter Heuer is director general of the European Council for Nuclear Research, or CERN, in Switzerland, where he oversees efforts to discover the subatomic underpinnings of the universe using the 17-mile Large Hadron Collider.

They are covered by miles of large gray pebbles, over which troops slipped and scrambled wearing heavy gear.