1.   Lobster fishers had spotted the infant whale Monday morning caught in thick kelp about a mile off the coast of San Diego.

2.   Our sportsdesk can spot from a mile off a person who can not tell an in-swinger from a bouncer.

3.   They could smell a funeral a mile off, and out they crawled, out of the woodwork.

4.   We could see the cliffs of Shetland about two miles off.

5.   We were still several miles off, but you could already see a glow in the sky from the lights of the city.

6.   You can tell a mile off that he likes you.

7.   You could tell a mile off that he was lying.

8.   You can spot undercover cops a mile off.

9.   I was always miles off course,

10.   It was quiet except for the murmur of the highway a mile off.