How To Use Square mile In A Sentence
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To the uninitiated, Orkney's Scapa Flow harbour is one square mile of untroubled, glassy water.
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In the largest slum, one million people eke out an existence in an area of less than a square mile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although a small country, with a land mass of 18,919 square miles, Slovakia's topography varies widely.
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The Great Barrier Reef spans almost 135,000 square miles along Australia's north-east coast.
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It'll beam wireless Internet signals over a 5-mile square mile area of Seattle.
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PacBell Mobile added four antenna sites this month and has expanded its total coverage by 125 square miles since January.
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Geological Survey have surveyed the United States and found 6,000 square miles (15,500 square kilometers) of so-called ultramafic rocks at or near the surface that could be ideal for storing the excess gas.
Livescience.com
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Rescue crews had scoured an area of 30 square miles.
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But almost 50 square miles of ski mountaineering terrain make the lifts pale in comparison.
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The Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country between Romania and Ukraine that covers 13,199 square miles (33,845 square kilometers).
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In Scotland barely a square mile of our landscape has not at one time or another felt the sharp edge of a plough or the woodman's axe.
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A mountainous landlocked country located in south-central Europe, Austria encompasses an area of 32,377 square miles, roughly the size of the state of Maine.
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Since the effect extends around each machine, up to two square miles could be affected by one turbine.
Times, Sunday Times
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It had taken the people of Chaldis the whole of three months to build new homes, remove a square mile of forest, plant some unnecessary crops of exotic and luxurious fruits, re-lay a river, and demolish a hill which offended their aesthetic sensibilities.
Tales of Ten Worlds
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Members of the tribe are spread out over hundreds of square miles.
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The Manu Biosphere is 7,700 square miles of cloud forest between Peru and Brazil - book your ecolodge for the full Amazonian jungle experience.
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On Aug. 1, a year ago, German colonial possessions in Africa totaled over a million square miles, in four regions -- Togo, Kamerun, Southwest
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
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Panama is angling to be the next Costa Rica, with nearly 6,000 square miles of public lands and a wildlife population (jaguars, tapirs, giant sea turtles, sloths) that'll make any tropical nation green with envy.
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The anger felt in the Square Mile will probably not be comprehensible to him, but it is real.
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By 1911 Birmingham spread over sixty-two and a half square miles, yet there was only half as much street railway trackage as in Cleveland.
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Previously, the Army Corps dynamited a stretch of river levee in southern Missouri, flooding 200 square miles of farmland in an attempt to alleviate pressure from the Mississippi.
Floodgate opens to divert Mississippi River
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At one time they ranged over most of southern California's deserts, and probably existed at population densities of thousands per square mile.
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The Gherkin, found in the Square mile, is cunningly crafted out of two types of melon and embedded with green beans to highlight its renowned spiralling glass frames.
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For the Union Pacific it figured out to ten square miles of salable land for every mile of track.
Bird Cloud
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The fire has burned about 480 square miles since it began as two blazes last week.
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They encompass 2,400 square miles of wooded mountains, high-elevation bogs and pine barrens, replete with winding rivers and spectacular waterfalls.
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Between Central Station down near the River Clyde and sloping up towards Sauchiehall Street lies half a square mile of a dozen streets that meet and bisect each other in a grid of Georgian architectural splendour.
Shine a light on Glasgow's seedy side streets | Kevin McKenna
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Rescue crews had scoured an area of 30 square miles.
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Four square miles of the city were totally destroyed on that terrible day.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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Walkup counts among his first-year triumphs the annexation of 26 square miles of state trust land on the city's southeast side.
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The judgment was ambiguous over the adjoining 1.8 square mile plot, opening the way for both sides to claim it.
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The City of London may only cover one square mile, but our journey aboard the 100 appeared to thread around most of it.
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That was a piece of cake compared to finding a square mile without an ad.
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There are 26,000 million insects living in every square mile of habitable land on Earth.
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That the country has the ninth largest superficies in the world one million square miles for a population ranking 62 could have attracted the attention.
Georges Ugeux: Revisiting Kazakhstan: An Economic Approach Beyond Petroleum
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The search zone encompassed more than six hundred square miles of lake and woods.
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Four years ago, the conglomerate was awarded a massive logging concession of more than 100,000 square miles just to the south of the town, and it is now felling the forest for the precious afrormosia tree - African teak.
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Tasmania is about 35,000 square miles, about the size of Hungary or Portugal both of which support populations of about 10 million with no real crowding.
Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault
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Less than 50 square miles in area, this British colony lies 1,700 miles north-west of Cape Town, and has a population of about 5,000.
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In the space of ten days, the Americans had dropped nearly 9,500 tons of incendiaries on Japanese cities and destroyed 29 square miles of what was considered to be important industrial land.
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But with six million square miles of ocean, drug runners often elude authorities.
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Between the star parties, parks, and planetariums, Hawaii offers more publicly accessible world-class astronomy per square mile than anywhere else on Earth.
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In fact, this vast empire, 4,000,000 square miles in extent, does not possess the homogeneousness of the states of Western Europe.
Michael Strogoff
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Court documents say three people left a campfire unattended Tuesday and high winds spread the embers into the forest, burning through more than three-square miles.
CNN Transcript May 2, 2008
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The Slave State which has increased _most_ rapidly to the square mile of all of them from 1790 to 1860, has had a smaller augmentation per square mile than that Free State which has increased most _slowly_ per square mile during the same time of all the Free States, and the result is the same as to wealth and education also.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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In the largest slum, one million people eke out an existence in an area of less than a square mile.
Times, Sunday Times
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In return for an advance on future royalties, the IPC demanded an expansion of the territories under concession from 192 to 35,000 square miles.
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The Great Barrier Reef spans almost 135,000 square miles along Australia's north-east coast.
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The vast domain now had an area of nearly eleven and a half million square miles, and a population of more than a fifth of the people of the globe.
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The P.C. Company owned fleets of river-steamers and ocean-going craft, and, in addition to farming the sea, exploited a hundred thousand square miles or so of the land that, on the maps of geographers, usually occupies the white spaces.
THE STORY OF JEES UCK
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Of the 57.5 million square miles of land on the planet, only 7.65 are arable, that is, suitable for farming.
Follow up on the Israeli low-carb study | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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The total area traversed by participants covers thousands of square miles.
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More than half of the Netherlands sits below sea level, and if a megastorm were to break through these not-so-formidable dunes, the water could inundate Rotterdam and surrounding cities within 24 hours, flooding thousands of square miles, paralyzing the nation's economy, and devastating an area inhabited by more than 2 million people.
Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands
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Hoteliers in Takoradi, the four square mile port town near the crude find, are scrambling to build new lodging for the influx of oilmen from Hess Corp. and Tullow Oil PLC who are handling offshore rigs.
In an African Dynamo's Expansion, the Perils of Prosperity
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The central spine of mountains, a last fling of the Andean chain, are matted in rainforest, threaded with trails, cooled by waterfalls and home to more birds per square mile than anywhere in the world.
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The ice cover last month of 3.5m square miles was 750,000 square miles below normal.
Times, Sunday Times
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This gave an average population density of over 1600 inhabitants per square mile in 1981.
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In cities, where mobile cells are quite small, this can locate the car to as close as 100 yards, but in rural areas the cell may be as big as six square miles.
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John says he is certainly keen to recruit from the Square Mile.
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Apart that is for the 3m square miles of northern Canada that are completely untouched by any form of human encroachment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Concentration camps and small forts or blockhouses, which were strung together by 3,700 square miles of barbed wire fencing, became the chief means of achieving this end.
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In Hong Kong many square miles of land have been reclaimed from the sea.
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Mr. Piailug learned navigation at the feet of his grandfather on Satawal, an island of less than a square mile in the Micronesian state of Yap.
Pacific Navigator Kept Sailing Techniques Afloat
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How about a dinner party for 14 at the giant oval dining table, lit by four vast pendant lights, further illuminations kindly provided by the Square Mile?
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Six years later, in order to finish construction of a transcontinental railway, the United States purchased an additional 30,000 square miles of Mexican land for $10 million.
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It is a crownland with an area of 1987 square miles and a population of 727,000 persons.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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The vast expanse encompasses much of the state's northwestern quadrant, with 13,000 square miles stretching from rolling hills along the Missouri River mid-state across buttes and badlands to the western boundary with Wyoming and Montana.
Stephanie Woodard: Native American Candidate's Marathon South Dakota Run
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Population in 1860, remaining the same per Population in 1860, remaining square mile, if area equal to that of South the same per _square mile_, if
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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In this case, over time, the debris field covered about two to three square mile area.
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The name appealed to Navar because the tribe is well-known for its huge reservation that spans 27,000 square miles in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah; its membership that ranks among the top two for American Indian tribes; and its cultural beliefs that tie beauty to harmony.
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Forty-eight square miles of good sound fame your not inerudite correspondent can conscientiously lay claim to; and although there is, with regret I admit it, a considerable portion of the square superficies alluded to, waste and uncultivated moor, yet I can say, wid that racy touch of genial and expressive pride which distinguishes men of letters in general, that the other portions of this fine district are inhabited by a multitudinity of population in the highest degree creditable to the prolific powers of the climate.
The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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You're going to have Secret Service agents and border patrol agents in snowmobiles and on cross-country skis, guarding all of those Olympic venues all throughout that 900 square mile area.
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He is, Shorty exclaims, the "hi-yu skookum top chief of the whole caboodle," and the caboodle is 20,000 square miles of wilderness, home to a hundred thousand caribou hunted by a people using bone-barbed arrows and bone knives.
“I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
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Abandoned in 1972, the 2.1 square miles scream out for use.
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In the largest slum, one million people eke out an existence in an area of less than a square mile.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is, Shorty exclaims, the "hi-yu skookum top chief of the whole caboodle," and the caboodle is 20,000 square miles of wilderness, home to a hundred thousand caribou hunted by a people using bone-barbed arrows and bone knives.
“I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
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The police are focusing their search on a three-square mile area surrounding the Cruz home.
CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2005
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There are perhaps two dozen trees in four square miles.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the largest slum, one million people eke out an existence in an area of less than a square mile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within the 416 square miles of the park there are 355 miles of hiking trails.
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In American Samoa, an unincorporated territory only 76.1 square miles (197 square kilometers) in area, the largest island is Tutuila, the administrative center.
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Under nearly every square mile of the swamp lie these ducts, though water and vegetation have hidden their scars.
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With 64,000 people crammed into every square mile, the most utterly bizarre happenings raise barely a shrug of the shoulders.
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There are perhaps two dozen trees in four square miles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The blaze is near an area where a wildfire burned almost 10 square miles and 169 homes last month.
Boulder Fire Evacuations Lifted After Winds Calm
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PacBell Mobile added four antenna sites this month and has expanded its total coverage by 125 square miles since January.
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They were made rich by the richest platinum deposits in the world on their 450 square miles of ancestral land.
The Sun
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The central spine of mountains, a last fling of the Andean chain, are matted in rainforest, threaded with trails, cooled by waterfalls and home to more birds per square mile than anywhere in the world.
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Population in 1860, remaining the same per Population in 1860, remaining square mile, if area equal to that of South the same per _square mile_, if
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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In a city of 14 million people and a land area of 6490 square miles, traffic is also a problem.
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The city limits encompassed 91 square miles, and the water bill for the average household was $ 8.
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For the Great Fen that once covered the huge expanse of 2,500 square miles has shrunk to a tiny fraction.
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The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf in the world with an area of roughly 182,000 square miles (472,000km²) - about the size of Spain.
Ross Ice Shelf
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In an intensive work period, Beagle surveyed more than 120 square miles of sea-bed, locating and charting more than 3,500 identifiable individual features.
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By 2013 he owned 1,600 square miles of land in the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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The isoseismal 6 is 105 miles long, 87 miles wide, and contains 7,300 square miles; and the isoseismal 5, 157 miles long, 143 miles wide, and about 17,000 square miles in area.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes
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The same drawbacks apply to the huge increase in onshore turbines, covering thousands of square miles of countryside.
Archive 2008-01-01
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About 40 officers began a search for the murder weapon in the park, which covers an area of two square miles.
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The Borough represents the best of Alaska: over 12,000 square miles (8.2 million acres) of extraordinary scenic and wild country, the highest mountain on the continent (Mt. McKinley, 20,320 feet), extensive and productive natural resources, a diverse economy and approximately 1,893 residents.
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On this side of the Atlantic, places where the huddled masses massed - like the Lower East Side of Manhattan - piled people on top of one another to the tune hundreds of thousands per square mile in the early 1900s.
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So Colonel Hickey ordered nearly two square miles blocked off, and an intensive search began.
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During that offensive, there were nine days of continuous bombing over a 60 square mile area.
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Four square miles of the city were totally destroyed on that terrible day.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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These brown shales underlie about 160, 000 square miles of the western and larger segment of the Appalachian Basin.
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The march of the budget hotel chains into the Square Mile continues apace.
Times, Sunday Times
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Below us was the battle zone, 464 square miles of urban decay, whose every street was a border to some one.
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The water park covers 40 square miles south of Cirencester and has 140 man-made lakes.
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Seventeen miles due west is the White Sands National Monument, 300 square miles of white gypsum dunes, the largest gypsum deposit in the world.
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Millions of square miles of sea floor - including large tracts off the west coast of Scotland - will now have to be resurveyed to identify the massive reservoirs that have not shown up on previous seismic studies.
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The Waddenzee consists of many square miles of gently shelving sand and mudbanks largely covered at high water.
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There are more than 1.1 million retail establishments across the country, an average of one every three square miles.
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Rescue crews had scoured an area of 30 square miles.
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Less than 50 square miles in area, this British colony lies 1,700 miles north-west of Cape Town, and has a population of about 5,000.
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There are an estimated 1,000 square miles of the country which are still littered with mines or unexploded bombs.
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This busy counterpoint of ancient and modern gives a strong sense of energy and dynamism to the Square Mile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Exmoor National Park stretches over 265 square miles of moor.
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The five most memorable years of his life were among the Bedu in Arabia's southern desert - the half-million square miles of the Empty Quarter.
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He was appointed to head the new merged ‘supertrust’, which covers an area of 4,500 square miles, in May 1999.
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State, will strive to keep the Indians as far as possible from its own borders; while powerful combinations of speculators will make their fight for the last acre of Indian lands with just as much rapacity as if they had not already, in Western phrase, "gobbled" a hundred thousand square miles of it.
The Indian Question (1874)
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There are 26,000 million insects living in every square mile of habitable land on Earth.
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Altogether, including its associated maze of bayous and cypress swamps, the lake covers fifty square miles.
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The fire started on Labor Day and has burned about 200 square miles of brushland.
CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2006
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Although it's the smallest -- roughly 5,400,000 square miles -- the Arctic Ocean is the least-explored of all the oceans, mainly because ice permanently covers most of it.
Search for Arctic Life Heats Up
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The extent to which the continent of Africa has been spoliated and delimitated by Europeans is shown in the fact that of 11,360,000 square miles of territory, all of it has been absorbed or is claimed except the 9,700 square miles controlled by Liberia on the west coast.
Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition De
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The Mojave and Sonoran deserts cover 40,000 square miles of remarkably diverse terrain.
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Which is why I like the "cartogram" style maps that show size by population instead of by square miles.
Rochesterturning.com
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France has arguably more romance per square mile than any other country in Europe, but the pocket of the country for which Carcassonne provides a focal point is the fountainhead of the very notion itself.
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The project would require approximately 1 square mile of fill and tons of dredging.
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A decision which would produce an all-Highland single-tier authority covering 10,000 square miles may seem contradictory to that objective.
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The blaze has burned 486 square miles of ponderosa pine forest, driven by wind gusts of more than 60 mph since it was sparked on May 29 by what authorities believe was an unattended campfire.
Thousands ordered out of Ariz. town as fire nears
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Its hundreds of thousands of square miles were as dark and chartless as Darkest Africa.
The Gold Hunters of the North
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As for the area of the flats, it fluctuates with rainfall, but its raceable surface still covered about 35 square miles.
Racers at Bonneville Salt Flats Pepper Potash Firm With Complaints
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It occupies an area of 56,136 square miles and is roughly the size of Tennessee.
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But clearcutting so many square miles of prime wildlife habitat is horrible
Habitat in the Making
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Wallis is an island of 23 square miles to the north of Fiji and west of Tonga and Samoa.
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Since the effect extends around each machine, up to two square miles could be affected by one turbine.
Times, Sunday Times
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The island is only a quarter of a square mile in size, but it is teeming with penguins and other sea birds.
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Bermuda extends 21 square miles, and much of it is covered by introduced species like the casuarinas tree, an import from Australia.
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Again, in five departments of France in which there is less than one hecatare to each inhabitant, that is to say, in which the population is more than 250 to the square mile, the number of births to 100 marriages is 414 and a fraction.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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Looking out over a million square miles or so of Indian Ocean, I kept my expression deadpan.
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But this sprawling city of more than 350 square miles (900 square kilometers) has never been known for high-density living.
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Britain occupies a total area of 88 798 square miles.
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Although I think the cage is the three square miles around 76th and Broadway, and the problem is too much food (if not actually Barney Greengrass eastern Gaspé smoked salmon).
Rhymes With Rich
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In Hong Kong many square miles of land have been reclaimed from the sea.
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The water park covers 40 square miles south of Cirencester and has 140 man-made lakes.
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It encompasses nearly 17 million people in an area that exceeds 10,700 square miles and is regularly called one of the smoggiest regions in the country.
Emission Trading Credits Approved By Anti-Smog Agency
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The encampment now stretches for a square mile through the west of the capital.
Times, Sunday Times
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And every one of those circles (each of which is filling a quarter of a square mile) leaves four corners of unirrigated, unplanted land.
Grouse Diary Entry
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In one area some 10 square miles [25 square kilometers] of the city was completely flattened.
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You gain access to those 4 million square miles, and you gain access to tremendous natural resources.
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We talk about things like metric tons of carbon dioxide, vehicle miles traveled, legislative history buried in subcommittee reports, intersections per square mile, and so on.
F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: Rebuilding a Neighborhood Rich in Civil Rights History
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Leo turned west on one of the gravel roads that marked almost every square mile of panhandle farm land and parked his car.
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This expansive ‘river’ covered almost 11,000 square miles, creating a mosaic of ponds, sloughs, sawgrass, marshes, hardwood hammocks, and forested uplands.
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Bound by a freeway, sprawling shopping malls, and an elite gated community, the town encompasses one square mile of stucco cottages, dollar stores, and fast-food taquerias.
