miles
Example Sentences
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Amanda Garcia has travelled more than 1,000 miles from New Mexico to witness the launch.
From BBC
Booking with a foreign airline using U.S. airline miles can also become a problem if the ticket wasn’t issued at booking, Henderson said.
The base is less than 400 miles from Iran.
The 49-year-old, who works in the Middle East as a domestic worker, is thousands of miles away from her home in the Philippines, where her husband and three children live.
From BBC
“I think people were surprised to find out they had a ballistic missile that could go 3,000 miles,” he said.
From Barron's
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