Sentence examples for which stretched about from inspiring English sources

When he was a toddler, his father helped found the Iditarod Trail Seppala Memorial Race (later named the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race), which stretched about 1,100 miles (1, 770 km) between the Alaskan cities of Anchorage and Nome.

Firefighters extinguished the blaze, which stretched about 300 feet down the river, in 15 minutes.

Although thousands of North Koreans defect to the South though China, it is rare for a North Korean — soldier or civilian — to defect through the inter-Korean land border, which stretches about 160 miles from west to east.

So far, thousands of people have worked on the huge concrete structure, which stretches about a mile and a half across the river.

Even as airplane travel diverted much from mushers' daily business, the culture endured along with the Iditarod trail, which stretches about 1,000 miles from Anchorage to Nome.

But in Change Square, which stretches about two miles along a major roadway, protesters paid no heed to events in the palace.

Beyond the coast lies the Ouatchi Plateau, which stretches about 20 miles (32 km) inland at an elevation of some 200 to 300 feet (60 to 90 metres).

The parade, which stretches about 5km and has floats decorated with millions of blooms, leaves the flower market at Aalsmeer and wends its way to Dam Square in Amsterdam.

The new fossil, which stretches about 15 inches from head to tail, came from a rich fossil field in the Liaoning region of northeastern China.

But halfway your progress is halted by what at first seems to be a river, but is actually the Canal de la Poêle, which stretches about 1,000m side to side.

The bodies were then transported by helicopter to a tent at the foot of the cable car rails, which stretch about two and a half miles to an Alpine glacier favored by skiers.