1.   The river is over a mile wide here.

2.   Tight trousers flowing to flares, waisted jackets, vivid shirts and ties half a mile wide.

3.   At least for the time being, an ice-free patch of ocean about a mile wide has opened at the very top of the world.

4.   From the tip of the peninsula to the mainland on the other side of the strait is a channel only about half a mile wide.

5.   In many cases, the support for this sector is a mile wide and an inch deep.

6.   In the suburb of Moore, the tornado expanded to three-quarters of a mile wide.

7.   Look out across the meadow, perhaps a half-mile wide.

8.   Only those Palestinians who could prove local residency would be permitted within the zone, which in some places might be more than a mile wide.

9.   Ryan plays Maggie in the movie, a leather-clad, motorcycle-riding New York nutcase with a mean streak a mile wide.

10.   Some of these isles are more than half a mile wide and have roots trailing down as far as nine feet into the water.