11.   As the Sunshine churned to a choppy stop about half a mile off Coney Island, members of the fishing club began baiting their hooks.

12.   Banana Island, a few miles off the mainland, has only a few hundred inhabitants, all descendants of freed slaves brought to Sierra Leone by the British.

13.   A mile off the highway.

14.   A small single-engine plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about eight miles off New Jersey on Wednesday.

15.   By morning the ship made its first rendezvous a few miles off Cape Cod.

16.   Fleet commanders overseeing the operation had decided for now not to attempt to move the Cole from its mooring point about a mile off the crowded harbor front.

17.   For our rules of the road, we limited our stops to restaurants that were either right on the highway or no more than a mile off.

18.   Global positioning will make it easy for planes to set their own direct courses, which would shave minutes and miles off nearly every flight.

19.   It said the planes were between five and eight miles off Baracoa, a western suburb of Havana.

20.   It was somewhere a few miles off Half Moon Bay, with my dad and brother, Bob Sr. and Bob Jr.