Sentence examples similar to quantity of miles from inspiring English sources
In a modern globalised world, the idea of transporting large quantities of avian dung thousands of miles in wooden sailing boats to grow turnips seems less incongruous.
Subsequent inquiries led to the discovery of a large quantity of explosives in Marbella (50 mile from Gibraltar), along with detonators and timers.
The tar balls came last week, but the large quantities of oil remained miles offshore.
Forgive me, but this article is really designed for a particular group of people: those of us whose professional lives mean we collect serious quantities of frequent-flyer miles and hotel loyalty points.
Thousands of miles of hedgerow were grubbed up, farming was increasingly industrialised, quantity replaced quality.
Unlike other scientific studies, Balpa is judging efficiency on the number of miles per gallon - despite different fuels producing different quantities of greenhouse gases.
Cherished grandfather of Miles.
"Thousands of miles," he said.
The ship could store a maximum of 3000 t of coal and an unknown quantity of fuel oil that gave her a range of 4800 nautical miles at 10 kn, and 1000 nautical miles at 22 kn.
On Monday, a police sweep in Londonderry, 60 miles north of here, seized "a quantity of munitions and explosives," Reuters quoted a police spokeswoman as saying.
