the Square Mile
 go the extra mile
to make more effort than is expected of you:
To be successful, you need to be willing to go the extra mile for your customers.
 miles an/per hour(abbreviationmph)
MEASURES, TRANSPORT
used for saying how fast a vehicle, plane, etc. is travelling or can travel:
The speed limit on UK motorways is 70 miles per hour.
 miles per gallon(abbreviationmpg)
MEASURES, TRANSPORT
used for saying how much fuel a vehicle uses:
The car does around 40 miles per gallon in town.

Examples of mile

mile
Let us first modify the above example to return only those pairs of cities that are at most 200 miles apart.
On average, the homeland of captives was located just under 106 miles from the point of embarkation (number l 879, standard deviation l 61n7).
He will sell the crops to customers at farmers' markets and restaurants within 40 miles of his farm.
The sun is 93 million miles from the earth.
They reckon it blew about 90 miles an hour.
Along the direction of view, the far shore is 30 km (18.6 miles) away, too far to be seen if the atmosphere is normal.
We started down the dirt road towards the highway, travelling at perhaps eight miles per hour.
The bridge to the island(s) was about ten miles off the main highway.
At one point the corridor is just thirteen miles wide.
The island itself is approximately 23 miles long by 3 wide and known by different.
A statute provides that one may not drive at over 55 miles per hour.
A speed limit is set at 55 miles per hour.
How could you convey a notion such as "the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second," without language?
To mark the boundaries between these corridors, lines of more than six miles in length were cut into the forest.
Finally, the mean distance of migration, measured as the shortest distance between parishes, was 10n6 miles for removal orders and 5n3 miles for certificates.
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Collocations withmile

mile

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cubic mile
I mean tens or hundreds of cubic miles.
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