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Sentence Examples Go through this and a wide tarmac lane is now followed straight ahead for the next half a mile or so all the way back to Disley. Distinction, the 11-4 favourite, takes up the running with about half a mile to go and soon has the field strung out. Also on the left bank, but about half a mile downstream is a landing platform. He is absolutely right in saying that local children would benefit as the nearest play park is at least half a mile away. Placed half a mile East, or situated on Church Road it would doubtless do a roaring trade. One dark night he helped row a collapsible boat carrying a dozen men half a mile out to sea in the hope of finding a ship to take them. The tail fin and the rudder attached to it were discovered half a mile from where the fuselage and engines came to rest. About half a mile away, starlight finally hit it, revealing a sleek chestnut brown body with ruffled russet red tail feathers. There were traffic tailbacks stretching for half a mile as cars waited for the police to reopen the road. The whales surfaced again about half a mile off the port beam, having dived beneath us, then turned north and headed towards Mazatlan. We were on the beam all the way, and passed to the side of the temporary field built by Wilkinson by approximately half a mile. Finally after about half a mile the thickness of the trees parted to reveal a small meadow. Leave the Pennine Way at the road and turn right, following the road downhill for about half a mile until a gated track is reached on the right. The women were attacked within the space of two hours early on Friday, half a mile apart. Some measure little more than half a mile across, and the newest discovery, a Neptunian moon, is almost 3 billion miles from Earth. All I could hear, for half a mile, was the sound of our feet crunching on the gravel, and the gentle moos coming from the cows in the fields. After half a mile of climbing, the path levelled and the landscape opened out, there were drifts a couple of feet deep at gaps and gateways. In fact there's only half a mile or so to go, I can see the lights of the houses, but near enough is good enough, it will have to be. There was a causeway bridge which spanned the waterway a half a mile ahead. If full, then verge south of start, lots down at Bonfield Gill half a mile from start. Show More Sentences After half a mile cross the expansive plateau to a high level lochan and the summit cairn. The waste from both flows to the small New Labour sewage works half a mile away. About half a mile north-west of Easton he could see a group of mounted figures watching over a herd of large animals. Seabound exit from the cult compound was blocked by half a mile of chain-link fence, topped with razor wire. The southeast face of the South Tower is more than half a mile wide and 3,000 feet high, and exposed to the nastiest Patagonian winds. There are some ten to fifteen fishable pegs here, over a distance of about half a mile. Karthan looked ahead, but a small incline in the road prevented him from seeing more than half a mile ahead. This is over half a mile away and consists of one cubicle with an internal diameter of less than one metre. The airport looked like a construction site from our position about half a mile away. The journey takes you half a mile along a cactus-lined track, and into a village. An attempt to restart the right engine was too late and the plane crash-landed half a mile from the runway. This continued its course west, directly parallel to the island, and in it, at a distance of half a mile from us, three galliots lay at anchor. It shattered windows in nearby buildings and sent debris flying for half a mile. All nine coaches were derailed, but continued upright for half a mile before colliding head-on with a coal train. It may be worth noting that I'm watching the game on my computer roughly half a mile distant from the stadium. Women and children have to walk up to half a mile to draw drinking water from a water source. About half a mile from the Desolate Borough's walls, the city dumped the by-products of dyes, tatters of textiles, and every other waste that had no use for. Much of the island is a mantle of ice more than half a mile thick. Ana Cross stands proud on a tumulus, visible from half a mile away. Before you turn south note that north-west, about half a mile away and probably visible is Ana Cross, a tall, complete cross shape and a magnet for walkers and bikers. Show More Sentences The sea was just a half a mile south of the fort and some men made plans to bathe in its waters tomorrow, while others just wanted to drink and eat and remain by the fires. The later levels of the game are so unbearably evil, that this game really should have been locked in a lead case and buried half a mile underground. The intended targets were military vehicles parked about half a mile away. A city garbage truck hit him and left him where he stopped rolling, beside the road on a hill half a mile from the house. The county council is urging all parents to start walking their children to school, even if it is just for the last half a mile to the school gate itself. It was about a half a mile downhill, with an absolutely beautiful view of the countryside, although it was always a bit harder to get back up again after a few pints. By the time we reached Roman Road, only half a mile as the crow flies from our starting point, the bus was jam-packed full and sailing past the waiting queues. In addition, two main temples were constructed on the acropolis, and a thriving seaport at present-day Minet el-Beida was located about half a mile away. None the less, I had gone barely half a mile in my Scenic when a bus driver, alongside me at a junction, put his window down to express his admiration. Her choice was the bedroom of a tiny studio apartment half a mile from campus, and there she emerged the winner, though it was well past midnight before Jack conceded defeat. As I write these words, an inch above my monitor yet half a mile away, I can see the Union flag fluttering at what appears to be three-quarters-mast on the Senate House. By the time the march reached the other end of town, it had grown to nearly half a mile long, taking up both sides of the wide boulevards that crisscross Pittsburgh. A short walk from the cathedral is a cable car, which ascends around half a mile to provide an impressive view of the island and the surrounding fjords. It is visible down a straight approach road for nearly half a mile. Meanwhile, in the southern city of Guangzhou, the queues at toll gates saw cars moving just half a mile an hour. He claimed there was less than half a mile between the end of the runway and houses at the Horsforth end and that an extension could raise safety concerns. We raced madly for about half a mile, behaving in as wild a manner as the poor bestung animals. It was by that time dark but proceeded to build scances and prepare to hold the position on a front of about half a mile. Wanting to get some distance between the girls and us, we jogged for half a mile on an old skid road. Eton College is located within about half a mile of the castle, across the River Thames. Show More Sentences A new location was quickly found but it was half a mile away from the ground, and so the players had to walk that distance in their playing kit. The bridge had four main spans, overall half a mile long, at that time the largest of its kind in Europe. The border, coterminous with a spur of the Cleveland Way for about half a mile from the East, exactly bisects Roseberry''s summit. Theophilus Somba, whose farm is around half a mile away from Lati's, has moved from maize to sorghum, pigeon peas and finger millet. Shortly before sunset Atahualpa left the armed warriors who had accompanied him, on an open meadow about half a mile outside Cajamarca. As I say for half a mile round the fort it is rutted gravel. We call this sort of gravelly stuff reg. The third arm is a truncated spur, running only half a mile to the summit of the Old Man before tumbling away south eastward to the valley floor. Although the quarry has not been identified, it has been suggested that the Gear, a rock now submerged half a mile from the shore at Penzance, may be the site. It is situated about half a mile northeast of Hugh Town and is a popular tourist spot with a number of guest houses, a restaurant, several gift shops and art galleries. The upper section of Great Gable has a roughly square plan, about half a mile on each side, with the faces running in line with the four points of the compass. An aerodrome, chiefly of steel, weighing, apart from fuel and water, about twenty-four pounds, was launched on the Potomac River on May 6, 1896, and flew for over half a mile. For example, if a hay-fever sufferer has a bout of eight or nine sneezes while travelling at 70mph, they could be taking their eyes off the road for up to half a mile. I'd covered nearly half a mile and was considering turning back when a dense patch of mountain laurels suddenly erupted with noise and flying snow. For half a mile a tranquil road stretches between columns of 80-foot-tall slash pines, inviting you to linger and to cherish life at its most serene. A short Allotment House and Elephant Tree walk will be led by Bryan and Dorothy Chambers at 2pm on Sunday from a point half a mile south of White Kirkley, near Frosterley. About half a mile before you arrive at Frongoch, follow the appropriate signs for the Eisteddfod by turning left and following the back road into the car parks. Located in the leafy Bournville, Oakville Place is just half a mile from St Laurence Church Junior School and a mile from the highly regarded St Brigid's RC Primary School. You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile. The schooner ploughed on Northerly for a minute longer, before tacking again to lay herself half a mile in advance of the nearer corvette, now up on their larboard quarter. Many sturgeon leap completely out the water, usually making a loud splash which can be heard half a mile away on the surface and probably further under water. Examples from Classical Literature She could only see half a mile south, because flyover Point blocked the view. The animal flew in an air-line toward a point of wood distant fully half a mile, and on the margin of the prairie. Within half a mile of the synagogue are the sepulchres of Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, each covered with a large cupola. Trueman wuz buried in the old Risley deestrict, not half a mile from us on a back road. It is said that from the ballistae stones weighing one hundred pounds could be sent half a mile. After descending from Bethphage for about half a mile by a very steep and stony path, we come to the village of Bethany. About half a mile down the beach I thought I caught a glimpse of a bonefish. Now from the desert island of butterine to the ridge was maybe as much as a half a mile. When half a mile from the town he could see the boys on the bridge of the cibola. It was on cockspur Island, which is a mile long by half a mile wide, and commanded all the channels leading up to the harbor. Not half a mile from the inlet the coho gathers itself together for its last wild rush to salt water. Leaving the flat, we struck North-North-East for four miles, and came to a salt marsh about half a mile wide, which we crossed. I found a pair breeding a few years ago in the low hills of San Luis Obispo county not half a mile from the ocean beach. The plundered boards and scantling had to be carried by the men half a mile. From Mummas house it was less than half a mile across the open field to the Dunker church. In a moment they were speeding toward the lights of the field house, half a mile off. After travelling for some hundreds of yards, often for more than half a mile, the formicarium is reached. With morning he was half a mile away, in a foxhole less than sixty yards from the massive outer perimeter of the arena. This village had half a mile of ooze and sludgy marsh in front of it, and a stockade as usual. The water ran into it sluggishly, and drained out half a mile below over muddy shallows. Show More Sentences The site has smutty Nose and Star opposite, with a road between, varying from half a mile to a mile. The race-course is not like those in the United States, but is a sodded strip extending about half a mile in a straight line. And then we should have to hump the lime at least half a mile up from the beach. There was a fire-engine, but it was nearly half a mile from the lakeside settlement. The whole slope, for half a mile, was covered with a dense scrub of lantana bushes. The lawns, bright and soft, sloped for half a mile to the sweetbrier hedge. The Liao at this point, little more than half a mile wide, is literally covered with vessels of every description. About half a mile further on an avenue on the right leads to the Chteau de la Malle. The trains were then sent back about half a mile, leaving, however, a trolly with ammunition. Desultory skirmishing continued for some time, shots being fired from the hills, half a mile away, as well as from the morcha. It is about one half a mile from Moultrie, about one third of a mile from Sumter. They had only to unstep its mast and lie flat in the cup of its soggy platform and they could not be spied half a mile away. The grounds behind were unstinting, and reached half a mile back to the mountain abutting it. They found the on-the-job engineering office for the ship in a small dome half a mile from the construction dock. Would you yourself, if you had chased a pickpocket or a welsher for half a mile, mistake his identity five minutes afterwards? It was perhaps half a mile wide, with flat, willowed mud banks on one side and low shelves of stratified limestone on the other. The bones were found in a peat moss, about half a mile from the road taken by the patrols. For half a mile they went on until a restrainable pressure brought the doctor to a halt. I left my carriage half a mile below, and have been revelling in the sun and air. I travelled towards it, and was pleased to see a vessel moored about half a mile from shore. Show More Sentences When it moved it jumped like a frog, and with every spring it covered half a mile of ground. Three boats found their rodings fouled by these reckless mid-sea hunters, and were towed half a mile ere their horses shook the line free. Their sulphurous fumes can be detected at the distance of half a mile. We found the truant for them half a mile further down, held by some rushes, and we brought it back to them. Hadn't you betta wait till you get within half a mile of the man? Twice we came across rapids, and in each case made a portage of half a mile or so to avoid them. The music stand was about half a mile from the park entrance. Down they both went to the bottom, wid a souse you'd hear half a mile off. Brings the smell of naphtha from those works half a mile away. There was not a breath of air moving, nor a sound but that of the surf booming half a mile away along the beaches and against the rocks outside. They walked in silence for half a mile or so along the road to Waldheim. Black had a cottage about half a mile along the road, and she combined the office of postmistress with that of universal provider. There was an anti-aircraft site off Tile Hill Lane, half a mile from Whoberley School. She could hear its chug as it climbed the hill half a mile off. It stood on a lonely eminence, in good view from the castle, and about half a mile away. It linked an abandoned building in Nogales, Mexico, to the sitting-room of a house half a mile away in Nogales, Arizona. The Rangoon was moored half a mile off in the harbour, its signal of departure hoisted at the mast-head. Behind the steersman's cage is placed a powerful electric reflector, the rays from which light up the sea for half a mile in front. This was not surprising, for the den was only half a mile away. From the factory to the Col du diable is less than half a mile. Show More Sentences This lake, perhaps half a mile in diameter, teemed with trout. Weighing 28 tons, suffocatingly hot inside and deafeningly noisy, they take an hour and a gallon of petrol to travel half a mile. The great Pacific mailer was lost in the fog full half a mile away. There must be half a mile of fluff over it in this weather, but it does not affect The Leek. More than half a mile was passed, before the rill rippled close around the base of an extensive and dry rock. We go down hill to it for half a mile, and it is a pity, for it would not be an ill-looking place if it had a better approach. It is really upon the EPT, a tributary of the Seine, distant half a mile. Before we'd gone half a mile it looked like a torchlight parade. Then one evening he trained his sound telescope on a house half a mile away, and he looked through the telescopic sight attached to the probe. It was found to be drifting gradually shorewards under a headsail alone, half a mile off the coast between Penmaenmawr and Llanfairfechan. Frequently, when passing at the distance of half a mile to leeward of a herd, I have perceived the whole air tainted with the effluvium. The usual place of embarkation was half a mile from the house, but I had an intimate conviction that, wherever Flora might be, she was not near home. At half-past one o'clock Timothy drove Miss Polly and her niece to the four or five principal dry goods stores, which were about half a mile from the homestead. Girls who had to walk more than half a mile to school were pitied. About half a mile from this city he bought a nice little place, with a large garden and a fair-sized court, in the centre of which stood an old well. We anchored in the open roadstead of Horta, half a mile from the shore. Find more words! 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