Sentence examples for miles mainly from inspiring English sources
"The whooper swans' journey here is 800 miles, mainly over the sea, but the Bewick's swans' migration is 2,500 miles, mainly over the land, and crossing several political boundaries," she said.
About half of that will come from selling frequent-flier miles, mainly in deals with credit card companies.
But unlike the surface record, the satellites revealed no underlying warming trend for much of the free atmosphere, up to about five miles, mainly in the tropics.
Almost all Primrose Farm's produce is sold within five miles, mainly to restaurants and at Hay-on-Wye's weekly market, on a stall groaning with 30 varieties of spectacularly tasty produce.
Even before the airport had been captured, Ukraine accused separatist forces of seizing more than 500 sq km (194 sq miles), mainly around Debaltseve and Mariupol.
It travels nearly 120 mile, mainly through rich farmland and small communities.
State-owned railways serve all productive areas through the several thousands of miles of mainly single-track lines.
Alberto Salazar, the three-time New York City marathon winner and former world-record holder, said last week that energy depletion at 20 miles resulted mainly from improper pacing.
Newly released satellite images show that the Amazon rain forest is disappearing at an increasing rate, with about 10,000 square miles lost mainly to pasture land, soybean plantations and illegal logging in the 12-month period that ended last August.
The lithology types have been confirmed by core recovery of 112 drill hole samples in laboratory from 220 to 4000 miles, are mainly eclogite, paragneiss, orthogneiss, amphibolites, serpentinite, and granite (Zhang et al. 2000, 2003; Ya et al. 2000; Liu et al. 2004, 2005).
Preceded by a week's bombardment, which gave ample warning of its advent, the Somme offensive was begun on July 1 , 1916 by the 11 British divisions of Rawlinson's new 4th Army on a 15-mile front between Serre, north of the Ancre, and Curlu, north of the Somme, while five French divisions attacked at the same time on an eight-mile front mainly south of the Somme, between Curlu and Péronne.
