geographic mile
noun
geographic miles
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pluralof geographic mile.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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THE western boundary of Egypt for a distance of more than a hundred geographic miles is composed of a wall of naked limestone hills about two hundred meters high, intersected by ravines.
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Jeremiah Curtin
Its length was about five hundred and fifty miles, and its breadth, from the mountains to the Pacific, from three hundred to three hundred and fifty geographic miles.
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving
THE western boundary of Egypt for a distance of more than a hundred geographic miles is composed of a wall of naked limestone hills about two hundred metres high, intersected by ravines.
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Alexander Glovatski
They lay at a distance of ten, fifteen, or twenty geographic miles from the Nile, and varied in size from a few to a few tens of square kilometers in area.
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Jeremiah Curtin
The base line for my survey of the Sound was of 2.46 geographic miles, measured round the curve of the long beach between the two harbours.
From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 by Matthew Flinders
