Liverpool is brought on an average about 2,600 miles nearer to Pacific ports of America south of Panama.
Wellington, in New Zealand, formerly equidistant between the two great ports, is now 2,739 miles nearer to New York than to Liverpool.
Liverpool is brought 6,046 miles nearerto all ports on the western seaboard of America (of course including Canada) north of Panama.
All the Pacific ports of the Americas are, via Panama, 2,759 miles nearer to New York than to Liverpool.
This leaves even Australia and all of Oceanica nearer to us than to England, and all of China, Japan and Siberia thousands of miles nearer to us.
It is also 6,500 miles nearer to Shanghai, which is a more important port than Canton, because of its greater nearness to the rice and tea producing sections.
Hong Kong and Canton are the English headquarters in China, and yet our Pacific coast is 5,000 miles nearerto these than England is.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "miles nearer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
