In this war, the targeting is often happening on computer monitors thousands of miles away, capturing images from drones.
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Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone.
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Miles of Soviet era housing projects sat along on the ocean.
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Casino resorts thrive in the Bahamas and have a presence in almost every port of call for hundreds of miles.
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Two years into an Arctic expedition, they were forced to abandon ship a thousand miles north of Siberia.
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Oxhey (2 miles S. from Watford) is a hamlet on the Middlesex border.
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I have walked, on an average, about ten miles a-day since at Grfenberg.
Every Man his own Doctor|R. T. Claridge
He was two hundred and fifty miles from London and had very little money.
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We took the wind through the night, and in the morning we were eighty miles from Corfu, which I determined to reach by rowing.
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The country for five to ten miles to the east of our track appeared open and grassy, basalt being the prevailing rock.
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British Dictionary definitions for Miles
Miles
/ (maɪlz) /
noun
Bernard, Baron Miles of Blackfriars. 1907–91, British actor and theatre manager. He founded the Mermaid Theatre in London, and was known as a character actor