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Example sentences for "million miles"

  • It involved the assumption, very much at discretion, of an average parallax for the stars investigated; and Otto Struve's estimate of 154 million miles as the span yearly traversed was hence wholly unreliable.

  • No other silicon-bronze object within a quarter-million miles.

  • Later Baird reported: "Radars report no strange objects within a million miles of the Niccola, sir.

  • No new object within half a million miles," said Baird, after a suitable interval.

  • Seconds later he passed the boiling ruin of Alpha IV by a half-million miles, still following the head of the Galactic Survey Beam.

  • Twelve days later Paul was floating free a couple of million miles above a planet known only as 'The Ninth Planet of General Star Catalog Number 311' or in bureaucratic lingo: G.

  • You did state that Grayson was trying to tap the radio beacon from a couple of million miles out, and that you caught him and his partner on the other end of the beam.

  • The distance from the centre of Jupiter to the orbit of the innermost of these four attendants is a quarter of a million miles, while the radius of the outermost is a little more than a million miles.

  • Without deviating from their almost straight line, they passed within a million miles of Jupiter, which had gained in its smaller orbit on Saturn, and a few days later crossed the track of Mars.

  • We must," said Bearwarden, "be moving at the rate of nearly a million miles an hour, from the way we have travelled.

  • I don't want to get within a million miles of Seaton until after we have the armament of this fellow's ships.

  • Can't be more than a million miles or so, and we're almost stopped.

  • If they even point a finger at us, I'm going to run a million miles a minute.

  • He would know him a million miles off, he was so big, and he had the biggest rifle in the world.

  • He could kill an Injin a million miles away, or a squirrel, or a groundhog.

  • He could kill wild turkeys a million miles away as easy as rolling off a log, and deer, and catamounts, and squirrels, and herons, and everything.

  • Well, I boomed along another hundred and fifty million miles, and got up abreast his shoulder, as you may say.

  • It swarms with a mean kind of leather-headed mud-colored angels--and your nearest white neighbor is likely to be a million miles away.

  • We next come upon Venus, at a distance of 67 million miles.

  • Of course it isn't much of a trip, only a quarter of a million miles at most, but it will be a little outing for us, and then those diamonds!

  • A trip of a quarter of a million miles only a little outing!

  • Débris, moving at the rate of a million miles an hour, would produce just such markings.

  • The breadth of the tail of the great comet of 1811, at its widest part, was nearly fourteen million miles, the length one hundred and sixteen million miles, and that of the second comet of the same year, one hundred and forty million miles.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acquitted himself; chief clerk; fine quality; good road; largely grown; matters little; million bushels; million expenditures; million from; million inhabitants; million marks; million miles; million people; million pounds; million sterling; million tons; millions sterling; millionth part; much the; open square; passage home; private soldier; teaspoon allspice; technical terms; that occasion; wood thrush