I ran for a mile.

I exhausted myself by walking a long distance.

Oil executives bragged that they could drill a couple of kilometers down, then a kilometer across, and hit their target within a few meters.

I could hardly see five feet in front of myself.

The Muslim Brotherhood tried to go too far too fast.

They will then fly a short distance at random, and land on any other green thing.

Put another way, suppose you have trouble seeing objects at a distance and you can only see out to 20 ft what a person with normal vision can see out to 200 feet, then you have 20 200 vision.

However, the record holder landed just shy of the eight foot mark, which is impressive.

These rhizomes can grow laterally by 2 metres (7 feet) in six months.

But I was saying to him, You know, the first airplane went 100 feet in 1903.

And at about 85 meters of my 100 meters sprint, in all my glory, I came out of my leg.

The run, a 10K race across the bridge, was held early in the morning before the walk.

Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold in the K 2 500 m event at Beijing in 2008.

According to Pliny the Elder, the work advanced four stadia (about 5 8 kilometers).

Connecting to her village, I had to cycle about 20 km with my recorder and notebook.

It had 19 stations and ran from Fushouling in the Western Hills to the Beijing Railway Station.

Off the Southern California coast the Channel Islands archipelago of the Santa Monica Mountains extends for 160 miles.

The receiver is about the size of a cell phone and can operate up to five feet from the transmitter.

He has a personal best of 19.65 seconds for the distance, currently the seventh fastest runner of all time and he also holds the indoor American record.

Of course you can't separate this out from issues like social diversity, mass transit, the ability to be able to walk a convenient distance, the quality of civic spaces.

I had traveled from Malawi's capital Lilongwe for over 350 km to meet this lady in a rural area in Zomba.

It covers an area of in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends from north to south and from east to west.

Massive parallel computers are programmed to yield numerical solutions of differential equations derived from the theory of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics. Scientists appear to know the mechanism that generates weather, even if it is inherently difficult to extrapolate very far.

Ruffed lemurs use several loud calls that can be heard up to 1 km (0.62 mi) away on a clear, calm day.

After maintaining peak intensity for 30 hours and moving a distance of about 75 miles (120 km), Carol weakened slightly off the coast of Georgia.

During the exercises, Shenyang units advanced 1,000 kilometers into the Beijing district, where they engaged in joint war games.

For example, Alice could fill in the blanks I will walk three extra miles if JuanTigar spends 30 minutes on the elliptical machine.

The largest waterfall in Asia, it plunges over a sheer cliff more than 200 feet high in a thundering display of foam, mist, and rainbows.

In some countries, such as the United States, licensed Amateur Radio operators may use some of the channels at much higher power for long distance wireless access.

In addition, the number of tasks of the UNFICYP police increased with the opening of the Astromeritis Bostanci crossing, where they patrol the two km of road running through the buffer zone.

At 2 00 a.m. the DC 6 crashed into Crystal Mountain, about 50 miles NNW of Denver, skidding 690 feet to a stop, as it burst into flames.

The result, however, has been to lead people to add another, political, component to their assessment of home prices, unhinging them further from economic fundamentals.

They are unable to turn around, lie down with their legs fully extended, or move more than a step forward or backward.

Mauritanian activists have embarked on a 470 kilometre journey on foot, from the city of Nouadhibou to the capital Nouakchott, carrying a number of economic and political demands to the authorities.

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.

In private, Obama and Romney may be able to agree on many things. But the Republican Party has moved far to the right of Obama s moderate liberalism, and Romney has been pulled along with it.

The explosion was not audiable as much as it was felt and my car leaped for half a metre in the air.

In addition to the complex coastline, the western coast of the Korean Peninsula has an extremely high tidal amplitude (at Incheon, around the middle of the western coast.

Even if driven much farther, 150,000 kilometers, an electric car s CO2 emissions will be only 28 less than those of a gasoline powered car.

And if you have to travel some distance farther than you can do under your own power, there's accessible vehicles, and if you can't afford one of those, there's accessible public transportation.

The women, facing a crowd of furious men calling them whores and other epithets, marched two miles under a rain of abuse and delivered their petition against the law to legislators.

Even in the prime commercial districts and chic neighborhoods of Bangkok, the nation s richest city, a short walk reveals miles of cracked pavements, piles of uncollected garbage, and rats scurrying freely.

Of course, for them and for Israel, this was Hezbollah and the need to eradicate or at a minimum disarm it and force its fighters to a safe distance from settlements and towns in northern Israel.

Brazilian officials know that they can achieve this goal only by acting independently but without diverging too far from the positions of the current permanent members.

The Obama administration s challenge nowadays is to calibrate its recent suspension of some military aid to Pakistan in order to maximize its leverage without pushing the government even closer to the extremists.