noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
30 mile/360 kilometre/2 hour etc round trip
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A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon.
a further 10 miles/5 minutes etc
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Cook gently for a further 10 minutes.
a half hour/mile etc
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You can’t just waltz in a half hour late.
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It’s about a half mile down the road.
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a half day excursion to the island
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He demanded a half share of the money.
a mile or so (= about a mile or possibly a little more )
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There’s a motel a mile or so down the road .
come 50/100 etc miles/kilometres
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Some of the birds have come thousands of miles to winter here.
five metres/two miles etc wide
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The river is more than fifty yards wide.
five miles/ten feet etc away
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Geneva is about 20 miles away.
food miles
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Reducing food miles would reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
for miles around
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Catherine was the most beautiful girl for miles around .
good for some time/a hundred miles etc
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This old truck is good for another 100,000 miles.
half a mile/pound/hour etc
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half a pound of butter
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It’s about half a mile down the road.
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She drank half a bottle of wine.
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half a million dollars
miles per gallon
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The car does about 50 miles per gallon .
miles/kilometres an hour (= used in speeds )
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The speed limit is 65 miles an hour.
miles/kilometres per hour (= used for measuring speed )
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a speed limit of 40 miles per hour
mouse miles
nautical mile
sea mile
two metres/three miles etc long
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The bridge is 140 feet long.
two miles/six feet etc apart
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Place the two posts 6 metres apart.
walk a mile/200 metres/a short distance etc
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We must have walked ten miles today.
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I walked all the way to San Rafael.
within a 10-mile/200-metre etc radius
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There are more than a dozen golf courses within a 15-mile radius of St Andrews.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
extra
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In this case, the move of premises meant that the employee had to travel an extra 40 miles each day.
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And it diminishes the employees' desire to go the extra mile when supervisors need them to.
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All this when her only motivation was to go the extra mile under all circumstances.
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Rammi, walking an extra mile to show me a well, then carrying home my water on her head.
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Every extra mile is charged at about 10 pence, and there is a 30 pence an hour waiting time.
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This is a nationwide competition to find the postie who goes that extra mile to deliver mail.
nautical
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Under the terms of the agreement Trinidad and Tobago's maritime boundary was to be increased to 350 nautical miles .
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This marks the site of one of the Admiralty's measured nautical miles .
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One minute of latitude at the Equator was defined as a nautical mile .
square
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A square mile of orchards shows no sign of anyone picking anything.
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Ducks were by the square mile , millions of them.
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A huge, 150 square mile , national forest is now in the process of being planted in the East Midlands.
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That was a piece of cake compared to finding a square mile without an ad.
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A decision which would produce an all-Highland single-tier authority covering 10,000 square miles may seem contradictory to that objective.
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He said the warlord's militia controlled less than a square mile of the city.
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The Mojave and Sonoran deserts cover 40,000 square miles of remarkably diverse terrain.
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They chose an area of twenty-four square miles in north Oxfordshire and spent a whole spring filming every aspect of life there.
■ NOUN
east
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Robert Walker, the prosperous-looking president of Turf Paradise, can see his doom approaching from 20 miles east .
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Sixty miles east of the capital is Terelj.
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It is around 22 miles east of Cheltenham, 20 miles west of Oxford and 18 miles north of Swindon.
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Lamphey Place, two miles east of Pembroke, was an important possession of the bishops of St Davids.
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A body was found on Saturday in Okanagan lake 200 miles east of Vancouver.
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The Constellation crashed on Auchinweet Farm, on the eastern edge of Tarbolton parish, about 5 miles east of the airport.
half
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In a short half mile we would leave the Lake shore, and make for home along the gravel of the road.
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He directs us to a good campsite a half mile down the beach at the base of a fresh-water estuary.
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Arriving late to find all moving stairways were out of order a panicky half mile sprint was needed to catch our plane.
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A water pipe jutted from the sandy village main street another half mile to the east.
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But a half mile down the road after some other diversion, I lose him.
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The nearest distraction is probably the Concord Turnpike, a half mile north of the pond.
north
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Running low on fuel Fuchida headed directly back to the battle fleet, now 190 miles north of Oahu.
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The nearest distraction is probably the Concord Turnpike, a half mile north of the pond.
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Fifteen miles north of Cambridge is the splendid Romanesque cathedral at Ely.
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They are centred approximately 30 miles north east of Anglesey.
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The village of Weston in which Leapor would have lived for some time was six miles north of Brackley.
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The tiny vessel Miami Vice broke down five miles north of the Liverpool Bar shortly after 11am yesterday.
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It was found abandoned about half a mile north in Leaburn Street.
quarter
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The run used to be three miles but I added a quarter mile spur in order to use the time to best advantage.
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Another refused to walk a quarter mile to school, insisting that daily transportation be provided.
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It stretches for three and a quarter miles from Leven to the river Hull.
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Cave walls painted with Aboriginal drawings, a gorge about a quarter mile deep, filled with only eucalyptus and birds.
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We go off to another site, reached by a quarter mile trek along the main railway line.
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A saguaro-studded slope a quarter mile away glows with a fuzzy light.
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It's sited only about a quarter mile from the northern boundary fence.
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We walked to the elevators through about a quarter mile of post-modernist interior decor, pretty well disguised as fake ecru adobe.
radius
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Those living outside a 50 mile radius £ 10 per year.
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The volunteers may go with chaperones anywhere they want within a 25-mile radius of the center.
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With over 34,000 hotel beds within a 30 mile radius of Birmingham, the city can accommodate even the largest international events.
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All life, plant and animal, within a mile radius of Ground Zero simply vanished.
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Most of the firms concerned are small and lie within a 10 mile radius of the University.
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The group also looked for John Deere equipment in a 20-mile radius .
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Within a five mile radius there are several pubs and restaurants.
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It has 13 heavy metal and 12 chemical factories all lumped together within a several mile radius .
south
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After the board meeting, they drove fifty miles south of Auckland to meet Forster for lunch.
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Fifteen miles south of Garberville my eyes began to close and I pulled over and slept for half an hour.
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Louth in Lincolnshire, 16 miles south of Grimsby, is a pleasant little country market town.
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Edward Plantagenet was massing his forces at Bamborough, sixteen miles south of Berwick, not at Carlisle.
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Three miles south the Imperial War Museum has an exciting collection of military and civil aircraft at Duxford airfield.
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The nearest centre with camping, chip shops, pubs etc is St Just, five miles south down the B3306.
west
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Start/finish: Car park, just over half a mile west of Harbottle village.
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It is around 22 miles east of Cheltenham, 20 miles west of Oxford and 18 miles north of Swindon.
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By air Leeds-Bradford Airport is at Yeadon, seven miles west of Leeds.
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Coleraine Division Rascahan Bridge, one mile west of Limavady - temporary diversion around bridge.
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The accident happened half a mile west of the Melsonby crossroads last September.
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Sited ten miles west of Oxford is the small market town of Witney.
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South Cave is situated twelve miles west of Hull.
■ VERB
cover
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They learned that the fall-out from the Bikini explosion had covered 7,000 square miles .
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Each covers about one mile and takes about 90 minutes.
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The race, covering 28.5 miles , will start at Aberdeen and finish at Peterhead.
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It would cover four square miles and be the second biggest in the country.
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The Survey was under constant pressure to cover as many square miles of ground as possible every year.
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A decision which would produce an all-Highland single-tier authority covering 10,000 square miles may seem contradictory to that objective.
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The athletes, often fell-runners, who are out to win can cover the three miles in just over fifteen minutes.
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I had to cover more than fifteen miles a day.
drive
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Because Southern Californians drive nearly 100 million miles every day in their cars - carefree perhaps but not cost-free.
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Unfortunately, we sailed straight into a terrible storm, which drove us many miles eastward.
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A hundred Deutschmarks and they'd driven scarcely a mile .
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They then drove fifteen miles before dumping him on the Buckinghamshire border.
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I drove about half a mile through the back streets before I found what I was looking for.
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I had driven 80 miles on the wettest day of the summer.
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If he'd driven at 40 miles an hour he would have driven straight past.
lie
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Toftingall, which lies a few miles south from the village of Watten, was one of the first Caithness lochs we fished.
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The oasis lay 150 miles south of Benghazi and the enemy airfields strung out along the Gulf of Sirte.
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Ahead lie 1700 miles of treacherous mountain roads and 21 passes.
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Most of the firms concerned are small and lie within a 10 mile radius of the University.
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The man had never seen it, although it lay only twenty miles to the north.
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Haddo House and its 180 acres of gardens lies about 20 miles north of Aberdeen.
live
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I live only half a mile from the canal, and visit those parts of it nearby regularly.
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I wanted a woman of my own, not some one who was married and lived a mile up the road.
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You nomes in the Store didn't know about my people, and we lived a few miles away.
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Many of my constituents live 50 miles from the nearest district general hospital.
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They lived less than a mile from the Elizabeth River, and Taylor remembers hearing ships' whistles at night.
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At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away.
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All these years then, or for some of them, Rufus had been living three or four miles from him.
run
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I'd rather run the mile than face Elizabeth in one of her tempers.
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The road runs for another mile and then terminates, at the top of a hill.
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Aragorn can run 135 miles in three days; he lives in full vigour for 210 years, dying on his birthday.
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Some of the tunnels must have run for miles , winding in and out of the channels of water that threaded everywhere.
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He now runs 30 miles a week.
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He wondered what she'd do if she ever met a Chinaman or a black slave. Run a mile probably.
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Owen Anderson kicks off by telling you the physical changes that occur when you run 26.2 miles .
stretch
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Of sand, surf and sea stretching for mile after mile after mile into the blue haze.
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Endlessly, the weeks stretched out, like mile upon mile of ocean.
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A convoy of cars stretching for miles was escorted by Merseyside Police outriders.
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It stretched for miles in each direction, with not a soul to be seen.
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An audience can only sit at the front of the stage and the hall stretches back for miles .
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Silhouetted sticks of rotted snow barriers emphasise godforsaken desert stretching for endless miles .
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The village itself stretches for about a mile southwards from the Driffield-Bridlington road.
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Five miles away the Ceredigion heritage coast stretches for miles and miles.
travel
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In this case, the move of premises meant that the employee had to travel an extra 40 miles each day.
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About 350, 000 people travelled the two-thousand-mile trail from the settlements to the West Coast.
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Why it had taken him all day to travel thirty odd miles was not explained.
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Read in studio Bird watchers are travelling from miles around to view the latest addition to a clifftop nest.
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At £93, each passenger is travelling about 37 miles for every £1.
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They had travelled 2,000 miles only to be disappointed by cruel coincidence.
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Passengers travelling 230 miles to Amsterdam fork out £136.
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David arrived in London with Angie, having travelled more that 8,000 miles overland.
walk
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He intends to push the record to over 9000 miles by walking another 2000 miles to complete the circuit.
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I started walking a half- mile each night with my wife, Melba.
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They walked for miles on the hilltops in the strong clean wind, alone with the birds and the sheep.
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Another refused to walk a quarter mile to school, insisting that daily transportation be provided.
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As she only had one lead rope, Perdita had to walk both ponies the mile and a half back to Robinsgrove.
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He felt as if he had walked for miles and knew that he had certainly had too much to drink.
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Others had walked a mile to a well and were carting back three large brass pots stacked on their heads.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
3 metres/5 miles etc short of sth
a good three miles/ten years etc
do 10 miles/20 kms etc
give or take a few minutes/a penny/a mile etc
give sb an inch and they'll take a yard/mile
layer upon layer/mile upon mile etc
run a mile
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And though injured himself he ran a mile over rough terrain to fetch help.
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Could you walk two miles in thirty minutes or run a mile in ten or twelve minutes?
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If anyone had told her then that one day she would join the royal family she would have run a mile.
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Luke Hunter would probably run a mile rather than meet her again.
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You could run a mile, but you're too disciplined and responsible for that.
see sb coming (a mile off)
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Beyond him, I could see the camp coming alive.
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Birds, like planes, usually face into the wind, so they do not see the plane coming.
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He looked up to see Norm coming down the driveway.
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One of the man-things had seen them coming and shouted a warning.
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Sarah Fleming saw them coming through the window of the front room.
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She saw him coming and intended to give him a wide berth.
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That Salvor Hardin had seen it coming made it none the more pleasant.
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We were heading for the landing zone and could even see a chopper coming toward us.
square metre/mile etc
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A square mile of orchards shows no sign of anyone picking anything.
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Half a dozen females share a nest, a simple hollow within the square mile or so of a male's territory.
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Having lived in Deptford all his life, Albie knew every jabber, snorter, speed-freak and pot-head in sixteen square miles.
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It would cover four square miles and be the second biggest in the country.
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Researchers have found the soil to be infested with around 500 grubs per square metre instead of the usual five or so.
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The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada, Utah and California.
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The Buxton Springs are surrounded by 550 square miles of spectacular natural landscape.
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This system was probably capable of supporting about 400 people per square mile.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dane's father lives about a mile from here.
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Mark jogs as least five miles a day.
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The car gets about thirty miles to the gallon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Edgcote House, situated about 8 miles northwest of Brackley, was a somewhat larger house than Weston Hall.
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Eighteen miles is not far at all, she says.
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Huge jams built up behind the 74-year-old pensioner as he crawled for five miles along the inside lane of the dual-carriageway A1.
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Maybe you have to throw a coat over your nightie and pick them up from miles away in the car.
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Now his voice was coming over five thousand miles of air and five hundred years of diverse progress.
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The first goal he scored in the famous Burnley game was really something special, he lobs the goalie from miles out.
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The gas was piped over a quarter of a mile to the Hall and stables.
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The main obstacle was the steep Crooksbury Hill after 19 miles, with the Punchbowl being a descent.