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

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

And if you're in the half mile radius of where this bomb went off, you have a 90 percent chance of not making it.

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.

Visitors can walk over the basalt columns which are at the edge of the sea, a half mile walk from the entrance to the site.

A small asteroid, say a half mile wide, would touch off firestorms followed by severe global cooling from the debris kicked up Carl Sagan's nuclear winter thing.

A key part of their technical set up was a half mile long length of wire, which was thrown across the rooftops of several houses in Boston.

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.

I ran for a mile.

Yeah, I'm a million mile flyer.

So we got out and walked, and sure enough, about half a mile, we came over the crest of this hill, and there was a huge gathering of Bedouin with their camels.

The island is located about a half mile from the center of Padang and can be achieved using marine transportation such as ships, approximately 35 minutes from port of Muara Padang.

One by one, in single file, hand in hand, they began to march toward Wenceslas Square, more than a mile and a half away, following a rickety horse drawn cart bedecked with the wings of angels.

Babies as young as a few days old can swim, and adults are known to swim over a half mile between islands, but are often found drowned in small groups where their drinking waters lie.

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

This river is one mile across.

But when I went up on top, it was a mile and a half of wildflowers running right through the middle of Manhattan with views of the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty and the Hudson River.

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.

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.

But it goes a mile and a half in a straight line, due east into the range, into very interesting territory except that, as you'll see when we go inside in a minute, we were hoping for limestone but in there is just shale.

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.

I mean, and only one mile is visible.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

River mile zero may not be exactly at the mouth.

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

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

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.

We're going to be up there in just a few more weeks, and we expect that it's probably retreated another half a mile, but if I got there and discovered that it had collapsed and it was five miles further back, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.

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

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.

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.

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

Half a Loaf Growth

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