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mile

noun as in 5, 280 feet/1.609 kilometers measured

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“It’s amazing to be able to start a scene between two people that’s intimate and you feel, as an audience member, ‘I’m miles away from those people,’ ” Dunster said.

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Romlis said at least 12 vessels were searching for survivors in an area of around 250 square nautical miles, roughly the same size as the city-state of Singapore.

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Enceladus spans only 313 miles across, and its weak gravity cannot fully retain the icy jets that erupt from its vents.

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"They tried everything to upset us. A hot dressing room, a dry pitch and the bus had to park a mile away," he said.

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The longest of the pipelines ran for 760 miles under the Baltic Sea, shipping Russian natural gas to its largest customer, Germany, and the rest of Europe.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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