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March 7th, 2010 at 6: 56 pm the total theoretical column depth [of the geological column] is 100 miles,
A Confession 2010
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[3580] Jam faciam quod vultis; eris tu, qui modo miles,
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Who would have thought that behind them, within ten miles,
In Chancery 2004
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Exmouth, are composed of distinct materials, and in their formation bear not the slightest resemblance to each other; the granite of the former being more allied to the hills to the south-south-east of it, from which however it is distant at least one hundred miles,
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003
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After getting on (keeping a good look-out) for about two miles,
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For this riuer, before it entreth into the sea of Pontus, maketh a little sea, which hath in breadth and length seuen hundreth miles,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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When the nearest oncoming cruise missile was within twelve miles,
Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994
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Seattle, Washington Although I'd a-traveled many miles,
BALLAD OF DONALD WHITE Dylan, Bob, 1941- 1962
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-- And should the water then prove good, soft and proper for fermentation, can be bro't over head, and the chopping mill is not very inconvenient, and wood convenient and cheap, and grain plenty and at reasonable prices, and a market within one hundred miles,
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Their route and time would be -- Montego Bay to Trinidad de Cuba, 172 miles,
A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World James MacQueen
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