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    1. At three hundred people per square mile you can get away with it, at over a thousand like these people live, and a K-type sun, the energy flux just isn't high enough


    2. She could see more than a mile up the canal, but they had come farther than that on the way here


    3. They had it to themselves, a square mile of water bordered only by forest


    4. It has a little lake of its own giving it a square mile of harbor and a few more square miles of lon


    5. It approached rapidly, and in only a few seconds it thundered over them, almost a mile up and climbing rapidly


    6. She was about to shout 'how dare you' but then remembered she was a half mile deep into his property


    7. After a mile or so, David began to lose all feeling in his feet and hands


    8. I have a thirteen hundred mile archipelago here


    9. No responsibilities other than to slam that girl a mile out of the rink


    10. Because she was looking at the limb of the world with the main scope, she could see a fifty mile wide swath of land at once, and could scan fifty miles in each direction with some fine adjustments to the scope positioning

    11. "The data we have say there are very few bulk mail distributors with more than a ten mile range


    12. " There was about a mile and a half


    13. "You are still insisting they nudged a six mile asteroid and it is just aimed at the Kassikan?"


    14. The two hundred mile trip to Lastriss increased to four hundred miles by the meandering of the river, making the trip from Hazorpean take at least four weeks altogether when the wind was this light


    15. "Even though it's down over seventeen hundred feet since the break-out, and most of it's grown over by wildhull swamp since then, there's a thousand miles of open water around Darceen and that's a mile or two deep


    16. It's still over a mile deep under the swamp


    17. It's only a mile and a half long and hardly ever more than three stories high, with stairs connecting to both fourth and ground floors of the outdoor streets


    18. Here they got to paddle down the old inner harbor for almost a mile, lit only by the bow lanterns of ships at dock


    19. It probably bolted also when you brought noon thru, but it couldn't be more than a mile or two away


    20. If Alan isn't with the people, is he out in the wilderness? There's ten or twenty thousand square miles of it that he could have reached by now, how easy is it to find a human in that? By looking at it so a square mile filled his view he found he could not detect a human

    21. There's a leese wallow about a quarter mile back, but I don't want to have to drink the water out of that even with these steriskins


    22. "They can certainly see our fire, but they're still within a quarter mile of us


    23. and a high wind-storm mile in the mind


    24. It was pretty open country, just enough keltoid brush to get her out of sight in half a mile, she had to use their smoke for navigation


    25. What they really had in common was length, she walked a mile on it, spending most of the time watching, a little thinking


    26. candid confessions from a mile high and a truckers’ rest,


    27. So many would rather run a mile than contemplate this topic, while others are fascinated by it


    28. The kaht station is about a mile out of the town, set on a hillside, as a result, the journey down to the harbour is extremely nerve-wracking and uncomfortable as the wagon is not very well sprung and the gg’s hooves slip on the cobbles


    29. They followed it almost a mile, then it ended


    30. The path ahead blocked not by wet ground but by a large sheet of lon-covered water, a lake nearly a mile across

    31. They stayed about half mile or more away from humans in country this open


    32. "People take up about one thousandth of a square mile each," Desa said, about forty million square miles for all of us


    33. People naturally settle at about a thousand to the square mile because that gives them plenty of cropland but keeps them surrounded by other gardens to help keep the pests down and give them enough social and cultural opportunities


    34. They were probably a mile ahead of the thing at this point


    35. It was still at least a mile to the line of trees at the next watercourse


    36. ‘I reckon that we need to go another half a mile or so along the track before we turn off


    37. Tarlass was used to air that thin, and had acclimatized to it well enough that he could walk a mile above the level where maps went black


    38. Even so, the fifty mile hike thru the pressure tunnel to reach the observatory was always a barrier and he spent years at a time eating dried food up there where the Kassikan's greatest telescopes had a clear view of the stars


    39. This means there's a fifty to hundred mile band of land around human settlements where large predators are rare and large herbivores are very abundant


    40. There were miles between points where they joined and separated, sometimes you were on a river a mile wide, sometimes less than a quarter

    41. There was a twenty one mile portage, and a ten copper price on an incredible rail car pulled by about forty kedas and fifteen or twenty guy's


    42. "The lower river has the look of home, even though I think Trenst is way over a mile lower in elevation than Zhlindu," he told her


    43. with the twenty mile marker,


    44. The actual center of Knidola is almost twenty miles downstream, with a thirty mile row of seaports and beaches along the dams of the lake


    45. This branch of the river was about a third of a mile wide here, the plots on the far side were visible, the ships passing by were close enough to shout to each other and moving so slow upstream with the barely perceptible tide that it was hardly worth the effort to sail at all


    46. What we had ahead of us was the last mile home so to speak


    47. There's a four mile comet headed straight for New Jerusalem


    48. For the first half mile we trudged in sombre mood, the others too scared to speak in case I snapped again


    49. There were structures up to five floors, and it looked like it covered at least a half mile square area


    50. This was gaudily painted wood and stucco, set in the middle of wide fields, at least a mile across














































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    Synonyms for "mile"

    mile international mile land mile mi stat mi statute mile mil swedish mile roman mile air mile international nautical mile naut mi nautical mile admiralty mile geographical mile sea mile

    "mile" definitions

    a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters


    a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude


    a large distance


    a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)


    a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile


    an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards


    a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km


    a footrace extending one mile