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‘Miles may undergo a distance.’

[⟨det (plur mile.n)⟩ undergo.v ⟨det distance.n⟩]

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The biocide killed every living thing in the river for a distance of some 38 miles (61.15km), devastating a popular fly fishing areaone of the most severe toxic spills in U.S. history.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I ran probably about 2 miles… and then stopped… according to map my run.. I burned about 400 calories… but I didn’t factor in the mile something that I walked… both ways… so walking a distance of about 2 miles… gives me about 100 something calories on top of that… not too shabby! plus later today Lee and I will most likely play some tennis… which means…
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The next leg of the race is a swim across the Valduvias Channel, a distance of about 20 miles, in rough seas where the water temperature is a chilly 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and the monrey sharks, a beast larger than your Great White, are numerous.
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It connected City Point, a port on the James River with the farm country south and west of Petersburg, Virginia, to Lynchburg, Virginia, a distance of about 132 miles.
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Wayne High School was organized in 1921 and serves 62 % of the land area of the county, a distance of approximately forty miles north to south.
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From near Claypole to Beckingham, a distance of about three miles, the river forms the boundary between Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.
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This stretch of the trail runs from northeast to southwest across the entire Wilderness, a distance of about 10 miles (16 km).
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It was open to horses three years old and upward and raced at a distance of 1 miles on dirt.
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A Grade III event open to horses age three and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of 11 / 16 miles (8.5 furlongs).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The eighth and penultimate leg of the journey took the bikers from Grand Rapids to St. Catharines, Ontario, a total distance of 410 miles.
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In Project Gutenberg:

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If verified this would be another record – breaking distance of 3,274 miles (5,268km), longer than the width of the Atlantic Ocean.
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”’Speed record: (at current distance of 1 miles)
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Except for “Your Song” (which was written during the recording session), all the songs were written by Jamison Covington and Parker Case over a distance of 1800 miles.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

One last problem for the super – geeks? and this one will require a calculator and some elementary physics: If you start at rest in Salt Lake City, and accelerate at exactly 1 g (9.8 m / s 2) for half the distance, and then immediately decelerate at 1 g until coming to rest in Wendover, how long will the trip take? again assuming a distance of 120 miles = 192 km? and how fast will you be traveling at the midway point?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In the case of the Zuumer (rhymes with boomer) from ZuumCraft, the journey being undertaken is a week long and covers a distance of 600 miles from San Francisco to San Diego along the beautiful California coast.
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Inaugurated at a distance of 1 miles on turf, since then it has been contested at various distances on both turf and dirt: On dirt: 1977, 1980 – 1990, 1997 to present The race was restricted to three – year – old horses from 1980 through 1985 and again bewtween 1991 and 1994.
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This is a distance of 220.34 miles (354.60 km).
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In Project Gutenberg:

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Queried on 2013-05-18.