twelve-mile

Here in Delhi, there were a handful of men within a twelve-mile radius, then the nearest handful were 712 miles away, in Bombay.

Adrien Field: Gay in Delhi Adrien Field 2011

Directly before him, across the twelve-mile channel, lay Florida Island; and, farther to the right, dim in the distance, he could make out portions of Malaita -- the savage island, the abode of murder, and robbery, and man-eating -- the place from which his own two hundred plantation hands had been recruited.

Chapter 1 2010

Changing ships at Greytown after a twelve-mile horse and wagon journey across the isthmus aboard “the hellfiredest sorebacks in the world,” Twain and the others boarded the San Francisco, a bad-luck steamer that already had broken down several times on her way to Central America and that would, in short order, turn into a literal plague ship.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

This should not have been a surprise; even the twelve-mile limit extracted from the British through strenuous negotiation had not worked out, for it required the Coast Guard to patrol a vastly increased area.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

Virginia had dipped its toe into the water as well, allowing two short privately operated toll roads—the twelve-mile Dulles Greenway, which opened a few months before the California HOT lanes, and the nine-mile Pocahontas Parkway, which was due to open in September 2002.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

Changing ships at Greytown after a twelve-mile horse and wagon journey across the isthmus aboard “the hellfiredest sorebacks in the world,” Twain and the others boarded the San Francisco, a bad-luck steamer that already had broken down several times on her way to Central America and that would, in short order, turn into a literal plague ship.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

We began the twenty-kilometer twelve-mile journey to the hospital.

In the Shadow of Freedom Tchicaya Missamou 2010

This should not have been a surprise; even the twelve-mile limit extracted from the British through strenuous negotiation had not worked out, for it required the Coast Guard to patrol a vastly increased area.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

In a running, twelve-mile, five-hour fight, Miles killed twenty-five Indians and wounded more, while suffering only two wounded.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

We hit the end of our twelve-mile float and exit the boat onto the ramp.

FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010