miles
Example Sentences
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Kelly Himes lives several miles from Nancy Guthrie's home in the shadow of the Catalina Mountains.
From BBC
Two weeks after Nancy Guthrie's disappearance investigators revealed they had found several gloves, with the closest discovered about two miles from her home.
From BBC
To get from her birthplace to the mountains north of Santa Clarita, she traveled more than 370 miles and walked the length of the Sierra Nevada.
From Los Angeles Times
Vauxhall, 150 miles southeast of Calgary, calls itself the “Potato Capital of the West,” but its spud fields whiff of petroleum because they also sprout oil derricks.
About two miles from the Guthrie home, investigators discovered a glove on the ground, then several others farther from the home, the sheriff’s department announced Friday.
From Los Angeles Times
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