Sentence examples for miles of length from inspiring English sources

The road, which is 16 lanes wide in parts and encircles the very centre of Moscow, features hardly a blade of grass or a single flower for most of its 10 miles of length.

For instance, China will be building over 87 new mass transit rail lines of nearly 2,500km 1,5500 miles) of length in the next five years alone.

For the daredevils, the Upper Ocoee adds another five miles of length and extends the water into Class V levels, and with the Smokey Mountains serving as a backdrop experience becomes even more memorable.

India's rail system, with some 63,000 km (39,000 miles) of track length, is one of the most extensive in the world, while in terms of the distance traveled each year by passengers, it is the world's most heavily used system.

The southernmost 44 mile of its length is within the Navajo Nation.

The Chixoy is navigable for about 140 miles of its total length of 250 miles (400 km).

But according to his calculations, during storms such as Monday's, the wave power potential down the 124 miles (200km) length of the Western Isles could match the output of 120 Torness-sized nuclear power stations.

The Muir Glacier was once a tide water glacier with a width of 1.5 mile, a length of 2 mile, and a height of 265 feet.

The mile is a unit of length actually based on the Roman "mille passus" or "thousand paces".

The planned lagoon, which would take about two years to build, would comprise an impounding "breakwater or seawall" of about 10.5km (6.5 miles) in length, and capable of holding 11 square kms (4 sq miles) of water.

That race involves swimming 2.4 miles, biking 112 miles and running 26.2 miles, the length of a marathon.