(n.) A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.
Example Sentences:
(1) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(2) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(3) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
(4) Tepco has taken on a US consultant, Lake Barrett , who led the NRC's cleanup of Three Mile Island, the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the nation's history.
(5) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
(6) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(7) Asked if his donation to Filner, who has a district about 2,500 miles from where Sharif lives, was because of his position on Iran and the MEK, Sharif said that it was.
(8) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(9) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
(10) But after 26.2 miles of pain it may be harder to keep that smile on his face.
(11) Miles will be replaced in September by former hedge fund economist Gertjan Vlieghe .
(12) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(13) Miles Shipside, Rightmove director, said: "The number of new sellers is slightly up on the same period last year, though perhaps as a reflection of their urgency to sell, or to compensate for the distraction of the achievements served up by Team GB, they have dropped their asking prices more aggressively than summer sellers in previous years."
(14) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
(15) The following year, I organised and took part in a cycle ride from John O'Groats to Land's End, covering 900 miles in nine days through this beautiful country.
(16) You had to let it crash over you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Miles’s life was torture’ … Lu Spinney at home.
(17) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
(18) The young screenwriters possibly needed to have chalked up a few miles before they could deliver really workable scripts."
(19) "It could be the difference between really struggling over the last three or four miles and getting over the finishing line before you dehydrate.
(20) Just one problem (apart from the old roof falling off): it's 60 miles from my desk.
Nautical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has decorated the former shop unit with a nautical theme.
(2) When this noise was compared with radar returns it showed that eight seconds after the explosion, the wreckage had a one nautical mile (1.9km) spread .
(3) He would walk into the room and say, ‘I like this and that.’ It was a team effort, but definitely he was the headmaster.” Nautical but nice: Ralph Lauren unveils latest collection in New York Read more In the early 60s, Lauren worked for the Manhattan men’s outfitter Brooks Brothers behind the tie counter.
(4) Israel had vowed to block the flotilla from reaching Gaza, accusing the organisers of embarking on "an act of provocation" against the Israeli military, and claiming its entry into the 20 nautical mile closure of the sea off Gaza would amount to a violation of international law.
(5) The peculiarities of the circulatory functions were examined in sailors following nautical voyages of varying duration and directly on board during a 6-month cruise.
(6) Both Bishop and Shorten said operational details of freedom-of-navigation exercises were a matter for the military, and did not call for such operations within 12 nautical miles of Chinese rock outcrops or artificial islands.
(7) The navy likes to boast about the missile’s accuracy: it can hit a target 4,000 nautical miles away and be accurate to within a few metres.
(8) If US relations with China turn sour, there will probably be war | Timothy Garton Ash Read more The patrol will mark the most serious US challenge yet to the 12-nautical-mile territorial limit China claims around the islands, and follows months of deliberation.
(9) Manila regards Second Thomas Shoal, which lies 105 nautical miles (195 km) southwest of the Philippine region of Palawan, as being within its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
(10) One of the peculiarities of Beijing’s longstanding claim over the two South China Sea island chains, the Paracels and the Spratlys, is that they lie so far from the country that it has been effectively impossible for the Chinese military to patrol the area from its existing bases hundreds of nautical miles away.
(11) However, Vice Admiral Style said the boarding of the dhow had taken place 7.5 nautical miles south-east of the al-Faw peninsula in Iran.
(12) US manoeuvre in South China Sea leaves little wiggle room with China Read more The guided-missile destroyer reportedly received orders to travel within 12 nautical miles (22.2km, or 13.8 miles) of the Spratlys’ Mischief and Subi reefs, which are at the heart of a controversial Chinese island building campaign that has soured ties between Washington and Beijing.
(13) The race is the longest ocean race in the world at 27,000 nautical miles.
(14) China says its territorial waters extend for 12 nautical miles from the land, a line that the US has challenged verbally but until now ordered its navy to respect.
(15) From 2,580 submariners, divers, and frogmen, 13,618 individual findings were evaluated from a total of about 50,000 dental findings of the Nautical Medical Institute of the German Navy, Kiel, West Germany.
(16) I think that that will invite a sharp response from the Chinese.” He also said Australia should not take part in freedom of navigation operations within 12 nautical miles of the artificial islands, warning: “I think that could provoke a response, a military response, and I don’t think that that would be a good idea.
(17) They flew the Predator drone out of sight and beyond earshot of the targets at about 20,000 feet and a distance of about four nautical miles from the group on the ground.
(18) However there has been a reported boat arrival since then – a group of 157 Tamil asylum seekers , whose boat was intercepted 16 nautical miles off Christmas Island in June 2014, were taken to Curtin detention centre in WA after being detained at sea on an Australian border protection vessel for almost a month.
(19) The Phoenix operates in international waters that start just 12 nautical miles from the shores of Libya – now one of the world’s most violent places, where two separate governments have only tenuous control over their territories.
(20) It is now at the Antarctic continent's Cape de la Motte, 1,500 nautical miles from Hobart in Tasmania.