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- adjective A
mile , or roughly a mile, in length
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Chris Travers: The reason is that the organized crime syndicates have a lot of resources and have engaged in some pretty incredible feats of engineering (for example a tunnel from a Tijuana warehouse to a San Diego warehouse, terminating in small rooms in both buildings, over a milelong).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kobach on Arizona’s Immigration Law 2010
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The reason is that the organized crime syndicates have a lot of resources and have engaged in some pretty incredible feats of engineering (for example a tunnel from a Tijuana warehouse to a San Diego warehouse, terminating in small rooms in both buildings, over a milelong).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kobach on Arizona’s Immigration Law 2010
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Our older son was learning to read, and he was newly interested in the milelong walks that culminated in half-hour buying binges at Half-Price Books on Lane Avenue, pizza at the low-rent place across the street from the bookstore, and the long trek home in the dark, him hanging onto my sore back, a plastic bag full of books hanging from each hand.
Books & Writers 2009
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The reason is that the organized crime syndicates have a lot of resources and have engaged in some pretty incredible feats of engineering for example a tunnel from a Tijuana warehouse to a San Diego warehouse, terminating in small rooms in both buildings, over a milelong.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kobach on Arizona’s Immigration Law 2010
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Chris Travers: The reason is that the organized crime syndicates have a lot of resources and have engaged in some pretty incredible feats of engineering for example a tunnel from a Tijuana warehouse to a San Diego warehouse, terminating in small rooms in both buildings, over a milelong.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kobach on Arizona’s Immigration Law 2010
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Our older son was learning to read, and he was newly interested in the milelong walks that culminated in half-hour buying binges at Half-Price Books on Lane Avenue, pizza at the low-rent place across the street from the bookstore, and the long trek home in the dark, him hanging onto my sore back, a plastic bag full of books hanging from each hand.
November 2008 2008
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Our older son was learning to read, and he was newly interested in the milelong walks that culminated in half-hour buying binges at Half-Price Books on Lane Avenue, pizza at the low-rent place across the street from the bookstore, and the long trek home in the dark, him hanging onto my sore back, a plastic bag full of books hanging from each hand.
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On Tuesday, the president announced the first stimulus infrastructure project, a milelong stretch of commercial highway in Maryland.
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Loved for its milelong natural halfpipe, which doles out radical banks and turns, it starts at 10,800 feet.
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A Stephenville businessman's estimate that a milelong spaceship was traveling 120,000 miles an hour — he says the ship moved as fast in four seconds as his Cessna jet travels in 20 minutes — exceeds the average person's ability to judge distances and speed.
‘Demons in the Dark’ 2008
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