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  • Festival preparations in Ireland continued at Leopardstown on Monday, when Pandorama and Big Zeb, the defending two-mile champion chaser, both had workouts on the track.

    Ruby Walsh back on Kauto Star for first time since jockey broke a leg 2011

  • Officials at Fort Jackson, a major Army training center, said Tuesday the new regimen would replace twice-a-year testing that focused on push-ups, sit-ups and a two-mile run.

    U.S. Watch 2011

  • A lot of good all that running had done if she was going to be sore after a two-mile hike.

    Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

  • The race exemplifies the city's development strategy: Subsidize big downtown projects with other people's money—in this case, over $6 million in federal stimulus funds for the two-mile race course—and proclaim an urban renaissance.

    How Property Taxes and the 'Curley Effect' Are Killing Baltimore Steve H. Hanke 2011

  • Having just finished their push-ups, they were standing and brushing the sand off their hands, some stretching in preparation for the two-mile sprint back.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • Narrow waterways are particularly vulnerable to mines; while the Strait of Hormuz is relatively wide, shipping lines are restricted to two-mile channels in each direction.

    U.S. Targets Iran's Central Bank Carol E. Lee 2011

  • "Our mission is to find all the bakeries in a two-mile radius," he says.

    Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Meetup Master Nancy Ruhling 2011

  • "Our mission is to find all the bakeries in a two-mile radius," he says.

    Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Meetup Master Nancy Ruhling 2011

  • Its resorts, already weakened by the recession, further suffered as this summer's Gulf oil spill delivered tar balls to a two-mile stretch of beaches near Panama City.

    St. Joe Battles Housing Problems, Einhorn Dawn Wotapka 2010

  • He had not a copper in his pocket, and the two-mile walk home seemed very long.

    A PIECE OF STEAK 2010

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