How To Use Half mile In A Sentence
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It used mules to haul two ore cars and a flatcar one and a half miles between its mill at the foot of the mountains and its mine.
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Due to the necessity of following the contours the length of the leat was seventeen and a half miles.
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If the debris did not leave the WTC as evidenced by pictures of the surrounding buildings, how did cars up to a half mile away or more burn or in some manner wilt and delaminate?
Propaganda vs. Projection: What is really the truth?
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Scott Evans Dekraai was arrested just a half mile from Salon Meritage in Seal Beach 5 dead in two homes in Indiana, cops fear killer is on the loose Ex-Blackwater security guards charged with murder of Afghans: report California hair salon was identified as an enraged ex-husband Thursday morning.
NY Daily News
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One of her cannon landed three and a half miles away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Found plenty of water and watered the horses (the camels some distance behind, quite unable to keep up) and at once proceeded northward along the side of a large beautifully-timbered grassed and clovered swamp (or creek about one and a half miles across) to ascertain the fact as to the presence of a European, dead or alive, and there found a grave rudely formed by the natives, evidently not one of themselves, sufficient pains not having been taken, and from other appearances at once set it down as the grave of a white, be he who he may.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
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At Lehman Caves, sign up early for one of the guided tours through an otherworldly half mile of stalactites, stalagmites, and twisting, straw-shaped helictites.
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I know that the cold had reduced my abilty to shoot with precision at small game even at close ranges when I was "temporarily disoriented" ... wouldn't have had the chance to find out though since my binoculars don't fire. 22's and camp turned out to be about a half mile and 4 hours of wandering in the dark away ... thank GOD for clear weather and a bright night.
What's the Best Survival Weapon?
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Only 14 of the 40 horses finished the gruelling four-and-a-half mile course in Liverpool.
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A half mile beyond this court tomb you will find another.
A Guide to Megalithic Ireland
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But then his stamina gave out after two and a half miles, and rather than dent his confidence by slogging it out for another half mile, tired and drained, he very sensibly pulled him up.
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On the 11th a good deal of "piecrust" cut down the day's march to eight and a half miles.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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Imagine how annoyed the anglers on my boat became when a Spanish purse netter appeared within half mile from where the fish were released and where shoals of Bluefin could be seen at the surface.
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Mayhem, of course you can take the sub on joyrides - you and Fireman Sam could join the Half Mile Under Club.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Huzzah!
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The hunt recently fenced off 6 and a half miles of the M40 to stop foxes getting onto it.
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A half mile beyond this court tomb you will find another.
A Guide to Megalithic Ireland
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Of the surrounding communities, nearby Federal Way City, two and a half miles west of Auburn, with a population 68,500, including many of German, Norwegian, English and other European groups 'descent, also includes 23,000 (33%) with the “ancestries” mentioned above.
Can Anybody Figure This Out?
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The river frontage, which extends to one and a half miles, will be open to the public.
Times, Sunday Times
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The race is four and a half miles!
The Sun
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At Lehman Caves, sign up early for one of the guided tours through an otherworldly half mile of stalactites, stalagmites, and twisting, straw-shaped helictites.
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This was achieved by means of barges which came alongside to transport convicts across the half mile of water to a small jetty.
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Two large streams joined the Tomahawk River approximately one-half mile upstream from the dam.
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They parked in the car park and walked the half mile to the stone remains of the fort.
CHAMELEON
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S'lome's a great favorite with the sisters over at St. Catherine's, which is about a half mile from St. Rose, and I heard her tell mother yesterday that she was going to ride over to pay her respects this morning.
The Love Story of Abner Stone
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Beginning in 1988, to the chagrin of many locals, the refuge closed down two and a half miles of prime beach during the spring and summer to protect the plovers during their breeding season.
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Making an early start, we crossed at four and a half miles, a low scrubby range, and there found, upon the left of our track, some very pretty grassy hills, and a valley lightly wooded with casuarinae.
Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
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In fact, the landscape could better be described as a moonscape: the flat sand plain, the occasional meteorite crater, and of course the chain of mountains guarding the landward approach about a half mile inland.
Seven Deadly Wonders
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We were at 700 feet and one and a half miles, with the visibility obscured by light fog.
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We turned left onto a narrow, unkept road, and drove another half mile, before we arrived at a large, austere building.
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At 4.15 came south-west and by south one and a half miles over level country covered with roley-poley, pigweed, saltbush, and young grass, and wooded with box and western-wood acacia to water, and encamped.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills
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From the peak it's only about a half mile down until you reach where the trees start getting leafy, and then it isn't too much farther until you get to the creek, which is very close to where the bears live.
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It was worth a hundred sovereigns and run over two and a half miles.
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In that case a distance of one-and-a-half miles, which could have been covered in less than five minutes by car, was held to be sufficiently proximate to allow powers to prevent a breach of the peace to be used.
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I seem to have added an extra one and a half miles onto my distance, and nearly doubled my trip time.
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Signs for the preceding half mile warn motorists of their presence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The outpost was approximately one-half mile from the crossing and consisted of two existing buildings converted into a hospital and a commissary storehouse.
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One of her cannon landed three and a half miles away.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was able to limp about a half mile away and crash land.
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The procession was a half mile long numbering nearly a hundred carriages aud was preceded by a military band which discoursed exequial music from the church to the cemetery.
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State emergency officials say the twister was a half mile wide, tossed cars around like they were pebbles.
CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2008
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The new road will leave the end of the M67 at Hattersley and bypass the four villages to the north before joining the A628 three and a half miles away above Valehouse reservoir.
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His thigh muscles pulsed with dull pain from the unaccustomed effort of his one-and-a-half mile ride.
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Then they surprised me with an account of a fearfully crevassed piece of surface that they had come upon, forty-six and a half miles from the station, where they had lost two dogs.
The South Pole~ Depot Journeys
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Frequently I ended those runs at the McDonalds or the local bakery, both about a half mile from the mansion, where I'd get a cup of water, then walk back home.
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One study showed that adolescent girls do 17 more minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity every week for each park within a half mile of home.
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About four and a half miles down this road, just as it begins to parallel the glen itself, you'll see a river.
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About a half mile from the trailer there was a stand of trees filled with ripe cherries.
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Construction of the four-and-a-half mile timber and wire fence and an inner electrified fence will begin in April, according to the project manager.
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To each lieue de poste (two and a half miles), is appointed a "cantonnier" or road-keeper, who is responsible for the condition of the length of road assigned to his care.
Brittany & Its Byways
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The lanes around the Daffodil Lion swarmed with police, blocking all routes to the air base which was about two-and-a-half miles away in the next valley.
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Bookies estimate that up to 15 million people, a third of the adult population, will have a flutter on the four-and-a-half mile steeplechase.
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It led them to two and a half miles of beautiful limestone caves, apparently untouched by Man.
Times, Sunday Times
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What I remember about growing up in my neighborhood was the sound of big ass rocket motors being tested and the occassional foundation shaking, glass shattering of a rocket engine blowing up in its hardstand about one half mile away.
Scripting News for 5/8/2007 « Scripting News Annex
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This was no easy lift like the one from Luna to Mars; in choosing to take a 'cometary' or fast orbit to the Hallelujah the Stones had perforce to accept an expensive change-of-motion of twelve and a half miles per second for the departure maneuver.
The Rolling Stones
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Despite numerous changes around the two-and-a-half mile oval, the track still follows much the same route as it did nearly 100 years ago.
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For the next half mile ignore homemade waymarks and some that may be official.
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I have an American email friend whose ex-husband used to drive the half mile to church.
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Another half mile, and with an eye on the weather, and tiny twinges in rusty legs, we took a convenient track that arced down to cross the valley to fords of flat sandstone.
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Several low rise hotels, backed by quiet citrus groves, are spaced around the half mile bay.
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Water was waist-high in one spot a half mile inland on Grand Cayman, the largest of the islands and an important offshore finance centre.
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The only downer of the day was experiencing my first Go Gel, which I gulped down after four and a half miles.
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When one and one half miles from the castle, the enemy opened some 68 pounders and mortars upon the precious little craft.
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Boggy bits slowed us for the first half mile, then we hit the pastures down by the river, connected with the embankment of the disused railway line and picked up speed.
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But today's extra half mile is sure to help and he is also better on right-handed courses.
The Sun
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I put the Skoda in the same place as before, under the cover of the fallen roof of the shed, and walked the half mile to the river, taking time to check the environment and going aboard the hulk just after half -- past eleven, with the moon floating above the dark skeletonic arm of a grain elevator downriver.
Quiller Meridian
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I cycle down the two-and-a-half miles of Southampton Road which is unusually devoid of traffic.
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The nearest distraction is probably the Concord Turnpike, a half mile north of the pond.
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Only 14 of the 40 horses finished the gruelling four-and-a-half mile course in Liverpool.
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Ferdy Murphy's gelding will require every yard of this extended two and a half miles, but will love the soft ground and is fancied to take plenty of beating.
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A half mile beyond this court tomb you will find another.
A Guide to Megalithic Ireland
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The breakwater, which is a good half mile in length, is a favorite promenade for the citizens of Colombo.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
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Take the track forking sharply left and follow this boggy walled route gradually uphill along a ridge for a further one and a half miles.
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He is further down this road, probably about a half mile or so up this road actually at the entrance to the mining facility, to where they call the tippler, which is the processing plant of the mine.
CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2006
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Elderly people in Little Hulton were left in the lurch when the local launderette closed - meaning a one and a half mile trek to the nearest facilities.
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Teyde, gradually upreared his giant statue, two and a half miles high: travellers speak of seeing him from Madeira, a distance of some 260
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
