Sentence examples for there were miles of from inspiring English sources

The aerial camera zoomed out and there were miles of ice in every direction.

Kitty had to remind herself that there were miles of cable between them, a maze of electricity and static.

In April, the photographer Jason Larkin travelled to Marikana, where he found "thousands of homes without power," even though there were "miles of power lines crisscrossed above them, solely for the use of mining companies".

There were miles of nearly empty road and more than three million acres of wilderness ahead, including the lowest dry land in the Western Hemisphere, mountaintop pine forests and every kind of badland, canyon and gulch imaginable.

There were miles of open space in this gentle music, generous pauses of action from each player, rhythms that kept shifting in the hands of Mr. Haden and especially Mr. Higgins, with his direction-changing drum rolls and the lovely constant of his ride cymbal.

Beyond the obvious minus that part of the island was a bombing range, we'd heard that wild horses grazed near some 40 white sand beaches, that there were miles of nature trails for bird-watching and a clean coral reef for snorkeling.

There was miles of indecipherable Amharic script.

Instead there are miles of dirt, garbage and cinderblock houses.

Besides, there are miles of snowmobile trails in the national forests surrounding the park.

Even better, there are miles of cycle paths along the northern bank of the Elbe.

For hiker tykes, there are miles of trails right outside the World Forestry Center entrance.