Examples:
1. She'll do more than 150 miles an hour.
2. There isn't another for eight miles.
3. It gets 30 miles to the gallon.
4. I must have walked 20 miles today.
5. She must have traveled hundreds of miles.
6. For the first 30 miles ''and then at 70 m. p. h
7. For the first 50 miles ''and at 76 m. p. h. after.
8. This pictureyou're about to see is being taken now by a camera 300 miles in the sky traveling 20,000 miles an hour.
9. Those are the rocket sites from 300 miles up.
10. A few miles from here. We'll have to find
11. But they'll be down there, and we'll be up here, circling a hundred miles above them.
12. Grommett was 100 miles out of our way.
13. We save 15 miles by following the tracks, Max.
14. We've come a lot of miles but we're not close to anything.
15. Up the coast, about 60 miles north of here.
16. And that's three miles down the road.
17. We rented a car that explodes every 40 miles.
18. Even when I'm 3,000 miles away and I don't even see him, I'm still answering to him.
19. A man who has traveled over 3,000 miles.
20. Not too far, I guess about maybe 20 miles from here.
21. You can hear it from miles away.
22. As far as the war 5,000 miles away.
23. I can smell an ex-Catholic miles away.
24. She's to launch an air strike when she's within 100 miles.
25. She's now 2 4 miles away, bearing 183 degrees.
26. We've got over 600 miles to go today.
27. About eight or 10 miles to Realito.
28. A cube 20 miles on each side.
29. CaroI, I came 4.000 miles to get a
30. The scene is some 60 miles from Ballard.
Definitions of Miles gloriosus:
1. A braggart soldier (a stock figure in comedy)