Sentence examples for miles rose from inspiring English sources

But Mr Rawski notes that, despite plunging ticket prices in 1998, passenger miles rose by only 2.2% on domestic routes between 1997 and 1998.

And a longstanding trend toward safer driving reversed, as the number of deaths per 100 million miles rose to 1.6, from 1.5, the Department of Transportation said.

At the same time, the number of deaths per 100 million miles rose to 1.6, from 1.5, according to preliminary statistics from the Department of Transportation.

Continental, however, was up both domestically and internationally, and the low-fare Southwest Airlines, a popular carrier with business travelers, said yesterday its revenue passenger miles rose a healthy 7percentt in June.

In the US, the number of runners completing races of more than 50km (31 miles) rose from roughly 11,000 in 2000, to more than 72,000 last year.

Capacity, measured in available seat miles, rose 4%, to 10.7 billion.

The New Life Church, whose impressive glass-and-concrete compound can be seen for miles, rises at the edge of town.

Lawrence, a city of 76,000 squeezed into about seven square miles, rises up in brick out of the more comfortable suburbs that surround it.

Some studies measure death rates by motorcycle-miles travelled: deaths-per-bike-mile rose 25% when Texas scrapped helmets, for instance.

In the same period since 2002, the measure of seats flown for one mile rose by 48 percent at United, 53 percent at Delta and 43 percent at Southwest.

Delta, the nation's largest airline, said that its revenue for each passenger it flew one mile rose 16 percent, compared with the same quarter of 2009.