miles

• “He ran him for seven miles -- _seven miles_, mind you!”

  The Dude Wrangler

• “Nannie is miles and _miles_ away from here by the cars, and how're children like you ever going to get to her without money or anything?”

  We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses

• “On this level part a horse travels with four waggons in his train, these together with their loads weighing sixteen tons, at the rate of three miles an hour, and continuing to do this eight hours, or through the distance of twenty-four miles*.”

  The Numbers of Carlton, Addressed to the People of North Carolina, on a Central Rail-Road Through the State. The Rights of Freemen is an Open Trade 232 p.

• “[Parameter (Mandatory = $true, Position = 0, valueFromPipeline = $true)] "$miles miles equals $ (($miles * 1.61)) kilometers”

  TechNet Blogs

• “Function Script: ConvertToKilometers ($miles) "$miles miles equals $ (($miles * 1.61)) kilometers”

  TechNet Blogs

• “We recommend doing the full loop (1.72 miles*) plus the there-and-back extension from the apex of the hill, which will add nearly a mile more of hiking for a total of 2.7 miles.”

  LAist

• “The current of the Ohio defcends about two miles an hour in autumn, and when the waters are high about four miles_”

  Internet Archive: An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies

• “On the march it is calculated that each wagon will occupy about eighty feet -- in bad roads much more; consequently a train of seven hundred wagons will cover fifty-six thousand feet of road -- or over ten miles; the ambulances of a corps will occupy about a mile, and the batteries about three miles; thirty thousand troops need six miles to march in, if they form but one column; the total length of the marching column of a corps is therefore _twenty miles_, even without including the cattle herds and trains of bridge material.”

  Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.

• “The time taken has no bearing, hence the term "miles per gallon", not "minutes per gallon".”

  The Guardian: Notes and queries: What's the difference between operas and musicals? Is getting there quicker cheaper? The house where Handel and Hendrix lived

• “Likewise with rebates, though I do tend to use those more, probably because the threshold for cashing-in miles is so high, and being a computer programmer I end up buying a lot of equipment which offer rebates of $50 and greater.”

  Pseudo-currency, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

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