1.   Grand Isle is a precarious headland, little more than a sandy breakwater, a mile across and less in some places.

2.   Our next obstacle was a shallow pool of water about half a mile across.

3.   On the other hand, the world was miles across and full of complicated things.

4.   Most of them have no shoes and have no idea where they are being led to in their journey several hundred miles across the semi-desert.

5.   Although areas affected by hurricanes are often several hundred miles across, only a very small portion experiences the full force of the storm.

6.   A few miles across the English Channel, the socialist French government has told companies they must cut the work week to create new jobs.

7.   After raising their young, these birds migrate thousands of miles across the continent to their winter homes along the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Maryland.

8.   Bunn, later in the afternoon, set up his white investigation tent in the village of Celina, a few miles across the rolling hills to the southeast.

9.   But comet nuclei, typically only a few miles across, are hidden from Earth observations by their size and the surrounding coma.