He said the vessel was then about a mile off the coast of Somalia, and the nearest town was Ubdu.
As a 12-year-old paperboy, Martin Dable walked half a mile off the main road to deliver the news to Ten Chimneys.
You could operate a mile or two mile off the shore - no problem.
During the first month of driving my new Kia Optima Hybrid, my average miles per gallon did not appear to be more than a mile or two off per gallon off the estimated MPG displayed on the window sticker.
Highlighting the risks such asteroids pose to the planet, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, on Thursday tightened the link between the demise of most dinosaurs 66 million years ago and the impact of a six-mile-wide asteroid that left a 110-mile-wide crater off the Yucatan coast of Mexico.
Only a 14 mile ferry ride off the coast of surf-haven Montauk, NY, the island welcomes world-weary travelers a place of refuge.
Due to various agreements, Fiat must achieve certain milestones before expanding its ownership in the company, such as producing a 40-mile-per-gallon vehicle off a Fiat platform in the U.S. This would grant the Italian automaker an option to acquire an additional 5%, taking its total equity stake to 57% later this year.
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Turkey, by contrast, has said the plane was hit 13 miles off the Syrian coast, about a mile beyond the country's 12-mile boundary, before crashing 8.5 miles off Syria.
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Backtrack and drive up Steens Loop Road to the mountain's eastern rim, which drops off in a mile-high rock cliff.
Scientists believe it was the blast of a 6-mile-wide asteroid off the coast of Mexico some 64 million years ago that changed Earth's weather for years and hastened the departure of the dinosaurs.
Today, when he's not in Los Angeles, Mr. Nitze, 41, lives three hours away on an entirely different type of frontier: on the outer edge of civilization north from Palm Springs, off a 1-mile-long dirt road in the remote, rocky high desert of Southern California.
The 1, 000-mile race kicked off in a festive mood as 66 teams posed with fans and sailed their sleds 11 miles on streets covered with trucked-in snow.
When his shipmates--fellow privateers and sociopaths in their own right--had had enough of him, they put him ashore in 1704 on a 12-mile stretch of volcanic rock off the coast of Chile.
"It was like a bomb went off, " said Barry Murry, a resident who lives about a mile away from the plant.
Mother-of-four Mrs Unwin was on a 130-mile (210km) journey after setting off at about 18:30 BST on Saturday 13 October.
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She set off on foot on a 9-mile trip, wading through New Orleans' flooded streets, dodging bullets and passing dead bodies along the way, to find her son and get him to safety.
Located next to the convention center, the stadium would have doubled the mass and length of the huge bunker against the river already established by that "lump of black coal" -- as essayist Phillip Lopate described its dark bulk in his literary trip around the edges of Manhattan -- cutting off views and access with nearly a mile of hulking wall.
According to information gathered by the Central Intelligence Agency, bin Laden was holed up on the third floor of a house in a one-acre compound just off Kakul Road in Bilal Town, a middle-class neighborhood less than a mile from the entrance to the academy.
So at the gun, I took off like a scalded dog and hit the mile in 4: 50, about 50 yards out front.
The Kittiwake was sunk a little over a year ago just off Grand Cayman's popular Seven Mile Beach.
Half a mile beyond the sign for Lathockar mill, Eva Lowe turned off the main coastal road and took the back way through Kinaldy woods.
But its decision to build a five-kilometre (three-mile) chain-link fence sealing off the centre of the old city of Quebec created an unfortunate symbol of exclusion.
Taxpayers usually have a choice: Either deduct a flat 51 cents per business mile (in 2011), or write off IRS-approved depreciation plus actual costs for gas, maintenance and insurance, among other things.
The project calls for the off-white wind turbines in a 25-square-mile area in a shallow part of the sound, a triangular body of water surrounded by Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
At the time the bomb went off near the 26.2 mile finish line, a Boston Globe reporter captured an iconic photo of a 78-year-old runner named Bill Iffrig who was knocked off his feet by the force of the explosion.
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On a temperate and sunny spring day in Boston a departure from last year's scorching near-90-degree conditions the women's elite race got off to an especially slow start, with a 6:04 first mile.
Still, it would be foolish to ignore the possibility that the repercussions of the present crisis will be made much more far-reaching if it precipitates the sort of panic that took hold after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in 1979 or the oil leak off Santa Barbara a decade earlier.
But for an also-ran brand in pickups, taking the wraps off the new Tundra in Chicago will be only the first mile on a challenging road for Toyota.
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They survived like that for the first 17 days, cut off from a world that had given them up for dead a half a mile under the Earth's surface.
The 4, 300 mile route takes competitors through a number of diverse weather systems, including the trade winds off the Canaries and Cape Verde islands, and the doldrums over the equator.
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