1.   It took half a mile to come to a halt after the crash and the driver was treated for shock.

2.   They trudged along the Overclyst road for perhaps half a mile, and then turned down a lane on the left.

3.   We walked about half a mile.

4.   Half a mile further on the path branches off, and goes down through fields to the sea.

5.   She lives just half a mile away.

6.   Half a mile or so along the valley bottom, the path converged with another which led down the hill from the village.

7.   Slowly, for she could still hear them less than half a mile away, she walked forward into the thick of it.

8.   A member of the Royal Family and twenty thousand people were assembled less than half a mile away down wind.

9.   From the Bab el Khalk to the Bab es Zuweyla was about half a mile.