half-mile
半英里,半里,半里地,半里路
Definitions
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- : a half of a mile.
- : a race of half a mile.
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- : measuring or running half a mile.
Examples
Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
Then she managed to struggle a mile through dark, rainy woods.
Beyond the huge American flag that hung over the street, the mile-long mass of cops ended.
As a result, training squadrons—called Formal Training Units (FTU)—are being staffed with less than half the people they need.
What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
All changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.