31.   Royall would be allowed to set sail for the last few miles.

32.   She had to be coached with directions the last mile via her car phone.

33.   Technically, convergence is the last mile.

34.   That digital revolution is making itself felt, above all, in the last mile of wire in a phone network.

35.   The last few miles are down a bumpy gravel road that is not dangerous but requires patient driving.

36.   The last few miles took two days to travel, so clogged were the roads.

37.   The last few miles were down a winding dusty gravel road with a backdrop bookend vista of the distant blue highlands of the Catskills and the Berkshires.

38.   The last few miles were for Kenya, which needed a champagne moment after its men were beaten for the first time in more than a decade.

39.   The last miles of desert seemed precious, and we began to wistfully conjure our next trip.

40.   The last few miles led us through Cave Creek Canyon, which friends had justly described as a little Yosemite.