Sentence examples for miles notably from inspiring English sources

After three weeks of laboratory processing, the almost 10 hours of laser measurements showed topographic detail over an area of 80 square miles, notably settlement patterns of grand architecture and modest house mounds, roadways and agricultural terraces.

(Update: Virgin Galactic tells me they are basing entry into space on the fact that NASA and the Air Force both award "astronaut wings" to pilots who fly above 50 miles. Notably this is also generally the altitude at which aircraft are more or less no longer governed by traditional aerodynamic principles, having left the atmosphere behind).

Several landmark races have been held at the 1.54-mile track, most notably in 1992, when Alan Kulwicki clinched a 10-point victory over Bill Elliott -- the closest in Winston Cup history -- and Richard Petty competed for the final time.

The Independent reported that more than 32,000 square miles could be affected, notably in south, north-west and north-east England and central Scotland.

The trend is "exceptionally bad news," said University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy, since it "smears a landfall out over hundreds of miles of coastline, most notably the storm surge".

Experts say there is an acute shortage of beds, a rising number of cases where patients are sent more than 60 miles (100km) for inpatient care – notably for eating disorders – and a dire lack of specialist personnel such as psychiatrists and specialist mental health nurses.

There are also some spectacular caverns in the interior, notably the 16-mile- (26-km) long Cave of Santo Tomás in the Sierra Quemado of western Cuba.

Other buddhas preceded Śākyamuni's appearance in the world, and others will follow him, notably Maitreya (Chinese: Mile), who is thought to reside now in a heavenly realm close to the surface of the Earth.

That larger Van Nest, with about half a square mile and 15,000 people, is notably Italian, as evidenced by numerous green, white and red striped flags, like the pair flapping about a tile store on Bronxdale Avenue.

Several countries have recently started to phase out the production of nuclear plants due to the number of accidents, most notably the Three Mile Island meltdown, in the United States; the Chernobyl disaster, in the U.S.S.R.; and the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in Japan.

There have been many smaller incidents involving accidental public exposure to radiation, most notably the Three Mile Island accident (Pennsylvania), arguably as severe as Chernobyl but with secondary containment (not present in the Chernobyl reactor), which largely prevented release of radioactivity to the environment (Weidner et al. 1980).