21.   Meanwhile, this same low will pass several hundred miles off the New England coast.

22.   Portage Glacier has retreated out of sight behind a ridge a mile off, melting away to leave behind a lake dotted with icebergs.

23.   Soldiers on both sides kept the public away from the site, which was more than a mile off the main Israeli highway.

24.   Steve is so customarily a jolly fellow you can see bad news written all over him a mile off.

25.   The fight over the safety of the planned football stadium less than two miles off a runway shows no signs of abating.

26.   The ice floes then carried them way back off land and hundreds of miles off course.

27.   The pilot of the square-sail ship misjudged a long tack to the east and scrapped bottom just a mile off the coastline.

28.   The ship, just miles off Asbury Park, N.J., was still moving.

29.   They said the submarine was intact and remarkably well preserved, lying a few miles off Sullivans Island.

30.   Twenty-six of those on board were rescued by the Coast Guard about nine miles off Diamond Head.