Some islands are named for their river mile distance, for example the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania has Six Mile Island, Nine Mile Island, Twelve Mile Island, and Fourteen Mile Island.

Now that last mile, last foot, in a sense, is the first step of the infrastructure.

I ran for a mile.

At the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica he won both the mile run and three mile run.

Yeah, I'm a million mile flyer.

This river is one mile across.

One of my first battalion commanders, I worked in his battalion for 18 months and the only conversation he ever had with Lt. McChrystal was at mile 18 of a 25 mile road march, and he chewed my ass for about 40 seconds.

First, China asserted a core interest in the South China Sea, effectively claiming its 200 mile special economic zone throughout the region as territorial waters.

I mean, and only one mile is visible.

Sweden (1980) was the first country to begin a phase out (influenced by the Three Mile Island accident), followed by Italy (1987), Belgium (1999), and Germany (2000).

In 2004, two St. Helenian fishing vessels developed the capacity to fish beyond the 12 mile inshore waters of the island's 200 mile exclusive economic zone.

Three hours of bottom time, average distance traveled one mile.

River mile zero may not be exactly at the mouth.

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the mile wide, three mile long channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

Mile Introduced after 1066, originally the Roman mile at 5000 feet, in 1592 it was extended to 5280 feet to make it a whole number (8) of furlongs.

And in the process, I became the first person in history to make the entire 650 mile journey, from Hercules Inlet to South Pole, solely on feet, without skis.

The population density was 78 people per square mile (30 km²).

The population density was 5 people per square mile (2 km²).

The population density was 196 people per square mile (76 km²).

The population density was 24.8 people per square mile (9.6 km²).

Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

The village lay in a valley about half a mile in breadth.

The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel written by Stephen King.

Twenty seven Stratofortresses dropped on a one mile by two mile target box from between 19,000 and 22,000 feet, a little more than 50 of the bombs falling within the target zone.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.3 square mile (0.8 km²), of which 0.3 square mile (0.8 km²) is land and 3.23 is water.

At the US median hourly wage of 25, each mile costs 0.83. Given that Americans drive roughly three trillion miles annually, saving just one cent per mile implies 30 billion in annual savings.

A fourth site at Four Mile uranium mine was approved in July 2009.

And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

Why? Because we don't care about miles per gallon, we care about gallons per mile.

Flocks that were a mile wide and 400 miles long used to darken the sun.

Lake Tahoe Area There is an 18 station par course at North Tahoe Regional Park, which is located at 6600 Donner Road, one mile west of Highway 267 and one mile north of Highway 28 in Tahoe Vista.

A wind turbine requires 50 tons of steel and half a square mile of ground space.

What we really need is something to replace the automobile for those 50 plus mile trips.

There were 47,468 housing units at an average density of 77 per square mile (30 km²).

These approaches sit 1 2 mile (0.8 km) to the south and west of the current bridge.

A mile of retreat in 75 minutes across the calving face, in that particular event, three miles wide.

The population density of Belgium is 365 per square kilometre (952 per square mile) as of March 2013.

A 1,600 mile stretch of the Asian Highway Network will be ready by the end of 2005, making overland travel possible for the first time from the Indian Ocean coast of Myanmar to the Pacific Ocean shores of Viet Nam.

Immediately after this ceasefire took effect, quietness enveloped the 25 mile narrow strip, quietness only punctured by buzzing drones.

Very few people realize that 50 mile plus trips make up 85 percent of the miles traveled in America.

It's about three miles out of Nairobi, and it's a mile long and about two tenths of a mile wide, where over half a million people live crammed in these little tin shacks, generation after generation, renting them, often eight or 10 people to a room.

In the United States, a river mile is a measure of distance in miles along a river from its mouth.

It is accessed via the Grand Canyon West Airport terminal or a 120 mile (190 km) drive from Las Vegas.

The folks at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey told us last fall they're making the first map of the universe, three dimensional map of the universe that there are probably 700,000 asteroids between Mars and Jupiter that are a half a mile big or bigger.

And as Norden famously says, Before that bombsight came along, bombs would routinely miss their target by a mile or more.