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Miles I Difference Noun Unit Distance Equal Yards

word mile
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A mile is a unit of distance equal to 1760 yards or approximately 1.6 kilometres.
They drove 600 miles across the desert.
The hurricane is moving to the west at about 18 miles per hour.
She lives just half a mile away.
There's a lake up there, about ten miles long.
...a 50-mile bike ride.
Miles is used, especially in the expression miles away, to refer to a long distance.
If you enrol at a gym that's miles away, you won't be visiting it as often as you should.
I was miles and miles from anywhere.
'Shall I come to see you?'—'Are you kidding? It's miles.'
Miles or a mile is used with the meaning 'very much' in order to emphasize the difference between two things or qualities, or the difference between what you aimed to do and what you actually achieved .
You're miles better than most of the performers we see nowadays.
With a Labour candidate in place they won by a mile.
The rehearsals were miles too slow and no work was getting done.
inflections miles
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