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Example sentences for "fifty miles"

  • Chief of all is the Tahoe Boulevard trip around the Lake to Tallac, and thence on by Lakeside and by Cave Rock to Glenbrook, a distance of fifty miles.

  • In going ninety miles it does not get over more than fifty miles of ground.

  • A sufficient stay will be made here to give opportunity of visiting Ephesus, fifty miles distant by rail.

  • We pushed on nearly east, as now we must strike the Finke in forty-five to fifty miles; but we had to camp that night without water.

  • There was a high, bold-looking, mount or range to the north-west forty or fifty miles off.

  • But if instead of fifty miles an hour seventy is required, an entirely different state of things obtains.

  • Hearing that there was a basket of corn at Powhatan's, fifty miles away, they would have exchanged all their property for it.

  • Fifty miles of such travel to see a little water run down-hill!

  • However, at last the tarantass started, and made such good way that by three in the afternoon it had reached Koulatsinskoe, fifty miles farther on.

  • At four o'clock in the evening they reached Abatskaia, fifty miles farther on, where the Ichim, one of the principal affluents of the Irtych, had to be crossed.

  • The wind continued all day and the next night, but, to our joy, abated on the 21st to fifty miles an hour, permitting us to travel.

  • The wind blew at fifty miles an hour with light drift, temperature -3 degrees F.

  • Sunday, November 24, we moved off to the south-east in a wind of fifty miles an hour.

  • From twenty to fifty miles 'out', the surface was neve with areas of sastrugi up to three feet in height.

  • Let us rise to the height of fifty miles again,' I replied, 'and then it will stand on the air alone, like ourselves.

  • We were still under the influence of the earth's revolution, moving with Atvatabar two hundred and fifty miles an hour from east to west.

  • The following year they settled Trujillo, fifty miles south-west of Tocuyo, and two years later Merida, a hundred miles farther in the same direction and not far from the Colombian frontier.

  • The ocean lies two hundred and fifty miles south-west, beyond the Central and Maritime Cordilleras and the bleak plateau which lies between them.

  • Beyond, fifty miles of green water, and a forest of shipping; and a city, the history of which has no parallel on earth.

  • It is always accessible during the terrible south-west monsoons, and possesses an anchoring ground of fifty miles, sheltered by islands and a magnificent series of breakwaters, at the south end of which is a grand lighthouse.

  • Crossing this vast sheet of water over an expanse of fifty miles, they saw the apparently boundless waves of Lake Huron opening before them.

  • There were also a large number of villages within a circle of fifty miles in diameter, some of which belonged to other tribes.

  • According to their estimate, they were about four hundred and fifty miles, in a straight line, from their settlement.

  • We thus have both wind, and current ahead; the current alone has retarded us fifty miles, or a fraction over two knots an hour; which is about equal to the drift of the Gulf Stream off Cape Hatteras.

  • Just before sunset, we had a fine view of the Silver Mountains, some forty or fifty miles distant, in the south-west.

  • It is the night express for the North--going at fifty miles an hour.

  • The latter can carry a light load of some seventy or ninety tons on a good roadway at the rate of fifty miles an hour or upwards.

  • That part of the Snake River Valley, three hundred miles long by fifty miles wide, will ere long count its inhabitants by the million.

  • The Great River was divided by that line nearly equally between the two nations, there being about seven hundred and fifty miles in American territory and six hundred and fifty in British.

  • Fifty miles farther on it breaks through the long sharp-crested chain of the Front Range of the Andes in a splendid gorge more than a half-mile deep, the famous Pongo de Mainique (Fig.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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