11.   Just half a mile away is the crowded, run-down Poplar High Street.

12.   It is only half a mile away, near the Docklands Arena at the other end of the Mudchute.

13.   The new hand-held equipment, on test in Hereford and Worcestershire, uses a laser light beam to pinpoint cars almost half a mile away.

14.   The owner says the problem is caused by a Severn trent sewage treatment plant half a mile upstream.

15.   From here they can see convoys coming half a mile away.

16.   And they had only run half a mile when it happened, and he was running in hand, very easily down the backstretch.

17.   As one surfcaster told me, an albacore racing through the breakers is a different species from ones you can catch by the boatload just half a mile offshore.

18.   As the course wound back toward the finish line, I asked a spectator if there was less than half a mile left to run.

19.   At one point the line stretched more than half a mile.

20.   Bolingbroke is about half a mile.