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Noun
half-mile (plural half-miles)
- Half of a statute mile, a measurement of 880 yards, or 2,640 feet, or 804.672 metres.
1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 61:These trains in the course of their day's work often travel a distance little less than that from London to Glasgow, stopping and starting every half-mile.
2024 August 7, Paul Bigland, “'3 Peaks by Rail': ain't no mountain high enough”, in RAIL, number 1015, page 51:They were greeted with applause, medals and the skirl of bagpipes from our lone piper - a sound some told us encouraged tired legs for the last half-mile as the pipes could be heard on the mountain.
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