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When I first started, if I walked a couple of miles I thought I might have bit off more than I could chew. Now, if I walk 20 miles it is no problem.

We know the quake was about magnitude 7.0, and we know the epicenter was located 32 miles north of Joshua Tree which would put it in the Mojave Desert area in Southern California,

We know the quake was about magnitude 7.0 and we know the epicenter was located 32 miles north of Joshua Tree, which would put it in the Mojave Desert area in Southern California,

When it comes to hitting solid drives, the secret is to swing within yourself. I know that sounds like a cliche, but it's true. If you swing at 100 miles per hour and hit it on the toe, you won't hit the ball as far as you would with an 80-mph swing that catches the ball in the center of the clubface.

When I was about twenty-five years of age, Professor Sims informed me that I could sing, but added, 'I would like to be at least forty miles away while you are doing it.'

With all the activities we're involved in it's a lot handier than driving 30 miles two or three times a day.

which is more demanding than the (current) 27.5 miles per gallon for passenger cars.

We were 30 miles from the Georgia line, so we were over there all the time, ... It was the same thing at Furman. We had more Georgia players than from anywhere else.

We don't want to put in trailers or houses without utilities. We're talking about miles and miles of lines down.

We're a few miles out of New Orleans, about the distance from Lima to Columbus Grove. It's not far, but every mile counts when you're talking about flooding.

You almost always have to do some decent travel for a sectional. But now we could be looking at going to Macomb, 75 miles away, for a regional.

You always have people going past me going 60 to 70 miles per hour.

We realized we needed to have a permanent center. We were racking up easily about 200 miles driving from Bow to Blaine and out to Sumas.

We have taken some huge steps since last season. Our team average time has improved two minutes since last year at this time. We have been focusing more on miles rather than speed so far this season. I am anxious to see what happens when we add speed to our workouts. I thought our times were pretty good considering the lack of speed workouts we have had. We still have some work to do but I like what I see so far. This is a very experienced team and they know what it takes.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

We wanted to make something a real challenge that took time and effort, so we said, 'Let's swim 100 miles in a weekend,'

You and I can turn and lookat the silent river and wait. We knowthe current is there, hidden; and thereare comings and goings from miles awaythat hold the stillness exactly before us.What the river says, that is what I say.

We've had customers from Box Butte County - and we're talking customers way out in the country - on for years. They are as far away as 18 miles from our access points.

We've got some canals in that area. The officers went out about 3 to 5 miles from where her car was found. They've done a lot of work in terms of following up leads and it's still a hot case.

We had gusts of winds in the Orange Bowl over 30 miles per hour out of the north, and we began to worry a little bit about the light towers and the fixtures. They had been certified, but we wanted to be sure. There wasn't any danger.

We'd walk those 2 miles from the house and found it was just so much fun being down here. We didn't want to leave.

We eat our own dog food. All of our San Francisco data infrastructure is actually hundreds of miles away.

We ended up with two miles worth of boats. We had 92 boats and more than 200 men who volunteered.

We estimate that he was driving at 80 to 100 miles an hour.

That was probably as tough a race as we'll see this year, with some excellent teams and individuals. Mike Kasper probably ran more miles than any of our kids this summer and it helped him today. Both teams will run better.

That was a good site for that wind farm on the hills behind Kennewick. They get average wind speeds of 14 to 16 miles per hour consistently so they have a good power factor for those wind turbines.

That was the first time I've ever done distance running. Running 3.1 miles has massively helped with endurance.

We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week, but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

We have people who will get on a motorcycle in the dead of winter and ride 350 miles to go to a funeral of a complete stranger and stand there for an hour, at attention, give a salute and go home.

There are no drivers like Formula One drivers. They are engineers, in a way. They are driving manual cars one-handed at 200 miles per hour around streets in Monaco. These cars use the ultimate in technology.

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

We're about a million miles away after (Monday) night.

We really expect the mission to be transformational. This is the capstone of the original visits to the planets. It takes us 4 billion miles away and 4 billion years back in time.

This property is the linkage that we needed to create new trail connections in the Valley, including expansion of the Bay Area Ridge Trail. This beautiful, undeveloped vista, seen for miles along Highway 12, will remain unspoiled forever,

We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.

We are talking about activity 100 miles or more offshore that will not be seen, heard or smelled.

We are talking about an economy averaging about 30 miles per hour in a 60-mph speed zone. That keeps pressure on the unemployment rate, forcing it to continue to rise. By summer, we could have 6.4 percent unemployment.

The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.

When it was 25-20 and they scored, it felt like miles away to get seven points made up.

When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm kind of a maniac. I race everybody.

There is concern with the mountainous regions here, we think wind gusts could hit up to 150 miles per hour. There's concern too for high-rise buildings in Puerto Rico.

Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner.

What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.

If you are the best, you must go that extra mile.

We've studied weather, winds, we've studied humidity. There isn't a cloud within 800 miles of here. In Milwaukee, you don't get a day like this until July Fourth.

This story has been written with different players - the names are now changed - over the last 10 years, ... There's more use of tissue today because orthopedic and neurosurgery are increasing because baby boomers are getting older. They want to remain active and golf and play tennis and jog five miles and keep their cholesterol levels down.

'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months.

Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do.

When you're out there going up a hill or you're slogging it out on the run, I just stop and think to myself that this isn't 400 miles of walking through frozen Russia, ... That's a true endurance test.

When you're standing next to a vehicle traveling 70 miles per hour and you're only two feet away, it's very dangerous.

Tomorrow, he will probably go two miles because he was pretty full of himself this morning.

We're doing repairs on the breaches, but there are many, many, many miles of levee that we don't have any idea of.

We're driving an extra 10 miles for the same amount of tax.

We are conserving fully functioning forest systems, so all of the elements that maintain the integrity of a forest over time are protected, including the rivers. There are over 300 miles of rivers in the forests that we're securing here in North Carolina, and rivers are really the life blood of any forest." ()

The pedigree on the bottom is good for 1 1/8 miles or a mile and a quarter.

We're not used to this pace, this speed, and the guys were coming at us 100 miles per hour. I think in the second period, you really got a glimpse of how we could play against them.

When you sling a saddle atop a llama's back, just after he's rolled in the dirt to scratch the unscratchable tickle of having lugged an ungrateful hiker's 90 pounds of impedimenta another eight miles along the trail, you're struck by how matted, coarse, and snarly the wool seems. But that's why it makes for versatile outdoor wear.

We are really off the beaten track and are so remote that the nearest town is at least 20 miles away.

We definitely plan on making inroads in the market. We're in the process of planning some special packages. We have a number of successful plans already - our four-packs, 2-For-Tuesday drink specials, our kids' promotions. We're formulating some new plans to bring some options to the Elmira fans that might take some of sting out of driving 55 miles with rising gas prices.

We were about done riding. He wanted to do another round, a mile or so. He was getting close to having 600 miles on his bike.

We've been working really hard, ... The workouts have been tough, the miles have been up there, and I think that pays off.

We're excited to offer people all across the world an opportunity to not only support the LAF, but to unite together for people affected by cancer. The Ride is a chance to challenge yourself, to push your limits. Whether you ride 10 miles or 100 miles, whether you raise $500 or $15,000, it's an opportunity to take bold action in the face of cancer.

We are miles away from (having) a public that is protected, ... But the wheels are moving in the right direction.

We are miles beyond where we've ever been before, ... This is absolutely a premier I can work with.

Mile high club, it's got its ups and downs.

When the range was first built, we were probably several miles out of town. Today, the town has caught up.

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

What we try to do is keep our happy history stuff separate from our regular business. People who are doing genealogy are all excited about researching Miles Davis; you don't want them to be in a situation where they're working next to someone burying a loved one.

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. From my mother's sleep, I fell into the State, and I hunched in its belly until my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died, they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

There are many, many ways customers can use their miles beyond air travel.

There are many miles of fire line that have never been visited by a firefighter.

The real significance is that it marks the end of the isolation that India had to live with. The outcome in terms of energy needs is miles away.

We only had about eight square miles of land. The Germans were up in the hills firing down on us. We spent four months under constant shell fire. One of those guns up there was on rails. Big! You could hear those shells coming. Of course, the ones you could hear were probably not going to hit you. It was the ones you couldn't hear,

We left because nothing was working in Hattiesburg. Power lines were down. Gas lines went for miles and miles. We left to get supplies,

Wishing you a rainbow, For sunlight after showers— Miles and miles of Irish smiles, For golden happy hours— Shamrocks at your doorway, For luck and laughter too, And a host of friends that never ends, Each day your whole life through!

We picked the areas that would be a challenge. The 200 miles we use are probably the toughest 200 miles we've got.

We consistently, on any given day, usually have multiple cars with 150,000 to 250,000 miles and quite frequently cars well over that.

We can't see 2 miles underground. We didn't know if there was a blazing fire.

When most of us drive 200 to 300 miles one way for Thanksgiving, it's usually only means an extra 10 or 12 bucks from higher gas prices, which isn't a deal breaker.

When New Orleans was founded, it was 10 or 12 feet higher and it was 100 miles from the coast, ... Now it's the coast.

When people switch to car-sharing from car ownership, they reduce their vehicle miles traveled by 44 percent, and thus their greenhouse gas emissions go down by, like, 40 percent.

When I was a youngster, we could go up to the fire lookouts and see 100 miles into New Mexico. Ship Rock always stood out.

When I was forty and looking at sixty, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But sixty-two feels like a week and a half away from eighty. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.

This ring may be the telltale sign of an unseen belt of bodies a few feet to a few miles in size.

The rebels attacked us (NRA soldiers) at a place called Corner Kilak 20 miles South of Kitgum (Town). They came in while singing and shouting; our people (NRA) massacred those chaps. They approached our troops frontally. This gave us a very good chance because they exposed themselves; so on Sunday (January 24, 1987) we surrounded them and massacred them. We massacred them very badly.

We would play a team that's one hour away 300 miles away from home. That would be fun.

We shot 'Dharma & Greg' six blocks from my house for five years. I had a Dodge Durango that I sold after five years, and it only had like 12,000 miles on it. My whole life was within eight square blocks of my house. There was a golf course across the street. In my downtime, I was on the driving range.

I can smell bullshit from a mile away but it's so much harder to detect when it's around you all day.

Too often people look at the disability only and are quick to diagnose someone or try and figure out what is 'wrong' with them, when they should be treating them as people and looking at what they can do. The men on this trip gain a better understanding of people with disabilities: they grow as people, they learn that service to others is the most important thing that one can do in their lifetime and they also have the sense of accomplishment with their 4,000 miles of cycling.

To me, that's not one of his issues. We all want the guy that's going to play 100 miles per hour every snap. I don't know how realistic that is. He's not by any stretch a dog or anything like that.

We've come a million miles from the bad old days. But no law changes the basic fact that employers want to do what's good for business. Their job is not necessarily to do what is good for you.

Miles and miles and miles.

We were trailing at the three mile point. The guys picked it up in the last two miles and we were able to pull it off.