We were less than a quarter of a mile from the road, and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke and dust that hung over it.

I have just seen Debonnie and Prompt Time work a mile in 2:34, last quarter in :35.3.

I had noticed a drive-in down the road a quarter of a mile.

If the square mile is divided into quarters, each quarter has a side length of mile ( 880 yards ) and is square mile in area, or 160 acres.

The island of Inchcolm, or Island ( Gaelic innis ) of Columba, a quarter of a mile from the shore, forms part of the parish of Aberdour.

To be a blizzard, a snow storm must have sustained winds or frequent gusts that are greater than or equal to with blowing or drifting snow which reduces visibility to 400 meters or a quarter mile or less and must last for a prolonged period of time — typically three hours or more.

The highest point in the county is 803 feet ( 245 m ) above sea level, a quarter mile ( 400 m ) from the village of Hastoe near Tring.

Coleridge attributed the poem's origins to one of his stays at Ash Farm, possibly the one that happened in October 1797: " This fragment with a good deal more, not recoverable, composed, in a sort of Reverie brought on by two grains of Opium taken to check a dysentry, at a Farm House between Porlock & Linton, a quarter of a mile from Culbone Church, in the fall of the year, 1797 ".

This can be taken from as much as a quarter of a mile away, and is generally used as a scene-setting, establishing shot.

One of the well-known mountains here is Mount Parker, whose almost circular crater lake measures a mile and a quarter in diameter and lies 300 meters below its 2, 040-meter summit.

Despite his advanced age, he himself hauled most of his 32, 000 books a quarter of a mile to their new home, using his wheelbarrow.

St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, West Sussex has cells running around a square cloister approximately 400 m ( one quarter mile ) on a side, making it the largest cloister in Europe.

The problem is illustrated by an estimation that 70 % of entry level jobs are located in the suburbs, while only 32 % of those jobs are within a quarter mile of public transportation.

The monument is located on private farmland, about one quarter of a mile west of the intersection of 315th Street and Gull Avenue, five miles ( 8 km ) north of Clear Lake.

Thousands of Ohlones are resting in the Ohlone cemetery located about a quarter of a mile from the mission down Washington Boulevard.

The Belmont Stakes was run at a mile and five furlongs from 1867 to 1873 ; a mile and a quarter in 1890, 1891, 1892, 1895, 1904 and 1905 ; a mile and a furlong in 1893 and 1894 ; a mile and three furlongs from 1896 to 1903 and from 1906 to 1925.

He had a fine balance between speed and stamina, and though he finished fourth in the 1957 Kentucky Derby at a mile and a quarter, Bold Ruler won the Preakness two weeks later at a mile and three sixteenths, and won three major stakes at the Derby's 10-furlong distance.

The races were indeed " a quarter " of a mile, or 400 meters.

When Quarter Horse racing began, it was very expensive to lay a full mile of track so it was agreed that a straight track of four hundred meters, or one quarter of a mile would be laid instead.

Until room-temperature superconductors are found, the 100 mile ( 160 km ) loop of wire would have to be contained within a vacuum flask of liquid nitrogen.

* June 19 – Glenn Dunnaway wins the inaugural NASCAR race at Charlotte Speedway, a 3 / 4 mile oval in Charlotte, North Carolina, but is disqualified due to illegal springs.

Speedway racing takes place on asphalt or clay oval tracks which are normally between 1 / 6 mile and 1 / 4 mile long.

Thompson has the highest-banked race track ( Thompson International Speedway, a 5 / 8 mile oval ) in New England.

It is a half mile high banked paved oval that was first built in 1947.

AJ Foyt at one time held the world record for a half mile oval at the speedway.

The Ogilvie Raceway, a 3 / 8 mile Dirt clay oval race track, opened on May 29, 2009.

I-55 Raceway is a high-banked 1 / 3 mile high banked dirt oval that features racing on Saturday nights.

The 3 / 8 mile dirt oval hosts stock car racing events from May to September.

McCool Junction is home to Junction Motor Speedway, a 3 / 8 mile dirt oval track.

It was a quarter mile paved oval track and was located close enough to the Hudson River that spectators would sit on the Troy-Menands Bridge and watch the races for free.

The configuration of the Woodhull Raceway is that of a very high banked one-third of a mile red clay oval.

It is a 1 / 3 mile banked oval track built of silica and clay, and the faster classes of sprint cars achieve lap averages of almost 100 mph.

* Slinger is home to the Slinger Super Speedway, the world's fastest quarter mile paved oval.

The Indianapolis 500 is held annually at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a 2. 5 mile oval circuit.

Fisher had to quickly downsize his planned three-mile ( 5 km ) oval with a two mile ( 3 km ) road course to a oval to leave room for the grandstands.

the previous day sprayed the mud off the car, installed pavement tires and a set-up for the one mile ( 1. 6 km ) oval.

The infield road course uses about a mile of the oval, but in a clockwise direction.

The track has a one and one-sixteenth mile ( 1710 m ) Polytrack oval and a seven and one-half furlong ( 1509 m ) turf oval.

The main track is a one mile ( 1. 6 km ) dirt oval with chutes for 6 furlong and 1¼ mile races.

The initial AUSCAR venue was the Calder Park Thunderdome Superspeedway, but over time the series expanded to include the Bob Jane owned 1 / 2 mile Speedway Super Bowl at the eastern end of Adelaide International Raceway ( the only other paved oval circuit in Australia ), the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, and eventually several Australian road racing circuits including Calder Park's road course.

The race follows a straight course from a standing start over a measured distance, most commonly ¼ mile () for most cars, with a shorter for some

ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at Black Rock Desert, Nevada at an average speed of 1, 227. 985 km / h ( 763. 035 mph ).

Between Tangshan and Nanking barricades were ready along the highway every mile or so, and nearer the capital there raged huge fires set by the Chinese in the course of clearing the countryside of buildings that might protect the invaders from gunfire.

Its mile and a half main track is the largest dirt Thoroughbred race course in the world, and it has the sport's largest grandstand.

Instead of running over a large course as is the case in other countries, the course for the 4, 250 m ( about 2⅝ mile ) Nakayama Grand Jump follows a twisted path on the inside portion of Nakayama's racing ovals.

Strabane Golf Course is an 18 hole parkland course set in the foothills of the Sperrin Mountains, 1 mile south of the town.

Daniel Defoe enlivens this account of the Waveney's Broads course: The River Waveney is a considerable river, and of a deep and full channel, navigable for large barges as high as Beccles ; it runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both ; and pushing on, tho ' with a gentle stream, towards the sea, no one would doubt, but, that when they see the river growing broader and deeper, and going directly towards the sea, even to the edge of the beach ; that is to say, within a mile of the main ocean ; no stranger, I say, but would expect to see its entrance into the sea at that place, and a noble harbour for ships at the mouth of it ; when on a sudden, the land rising high by the sea-side, crosses the head of the river, like a dam, checks the whole course of it, and it returns, bending its course west, for two miles, or thereabouts ; and then turning north, thro ' another long course of meadows ( joining to those just now mention'd ) seeks out the River Yare, that it may join its water with hers, and find their way to the sea together.

Ultimately, over the course of several years, Rankin won out over Pellsville, which was located a mile and a half to the west.

Andover has two golf courses within a mile of each other and one in the southernmost part of the city that, in 2005-2006, was rated the 43rd best golf course in the country by Golf Digest Magazine ..

The Quequechan River originally flowed unconfined over an almost level course for more than a mile.

* River Bends Park, with two entrances off Ryan and 22 mile roads, is full of trails and has several kinds of kids play equipment, as well as a disc golf course.

The Missouri River changed course in 1914 and dug into the bank of Napoleon, further embedding itself as a major port while cutting the prime bottom farm land in half north of Waterloo and leaving Wellington about a mile from the river at that point.

The central section of the community, another mile to the east, includes a park and lake (" The Marina "), and an 18-hole golf course and clubhouse.

Geoff owns course records in every 100 mile race he has ever run as well as numerous course records and wins at distances ranging from 25 miles to 100 +.

The water from Laurel Creek was diverted, or at least a portion of it, into a small lake or pond which served as a resivoir for a constant supply of water for a mill race which followed course directly past the saw mill then past the grain mill and returned to the stream approximately 1 / 2 mile from its origin.

A mile south of Chorley town centre is Duxbury Park municipal golf course.

St Ives has an 18 hole championship golf course, located 1 / 2 mile east of St Ives on the A1123.

In 1904, Santos-Dumont shipped his new airship No. 7 ( also called Racer ), from Paris to St. Louis to fly at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to compete for the Grand Prize of $ 100, 000 which was to be given to a flying machine ( of any sort ) that could make three round-trip flights over a 24 km ( 15 mile ) “ L ”- shaped course at an overall average speed of 32 kph ( 20 mph ), later reduced to 24 kph ( 15 mph ).