Sentence examples for miles was built from inspiring English sources

Parts of the Great Wall date back to the 3rd century BC, though much of it – about 4,000 miles – was built during the Ming dynasty of 1368 to 1644.

To recreate the ancient city streets of Jerusalem, a vast set covering 0.5 square miles was built, which included a 75 feet high Joppa Gate.

The 'last mile' is built into the structure of the business.

In fact, most of the combined length of the aqueducts supplying Rome (about 420 km [260 miles]) was built as covered trenches or tunnels.

INSIDE: The cabin, built of pine milled about 15 miles away, was built in 2002.

When 95 percent of the water rights along the river were in the hands of Mulholland's department, an aqueduct some 233 miles long was built to take the water to the city.

The first, which is 310 miles long, was built in the fall of 2015.

In 1993, a five-mile bridge was built over marshland to connect Isle of Palms to the mainland.

While many of its walls have been built for security around schools and hospitals, or for protection against militant attacks, they're also to keep sectarian communities apart: a three-mile wall was built by US soldiers in 2007, for instance, which gated off a minority Sunni community.

Rather than build a test range for the new train in an area of relatively flat, open spaces, the 25-mile track was built in this heavily mountainous farmland west of Tokyo, requiring a huge span of elevated concrete, a truss bridge and numerous long tunnels.

Between 1930 and 1937 a dike 66 mile long was built around the southern edge of the lake.