Usage examples of "halbe Meile" in German with translation to English

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Das Postamt ist eine halbe Meile entfernt. The post office is half a mile away.
Ich denke, wir sollten besser noch eine halbe Stunde warten. I think we had better wait another thirty minutes.
Die Brücke ist ungefähr eine Meile lang. The bridge is approximately a mile long.
Ich glaube, wir sollten noch eine halbe Stunde warten. I think we should wait another half an hour.
Ich war noch keine Meile gegangen, als es zu regnen anfing. I had not gone a mile when it began to rain.
Der Erstschlag ist der halbe Sieg. The first blow is half the battle.
Tom läuft eine Meile in 9 Minuten. Tom runs a 9 minute mile.
Ich habe eine halbe Stunde gebraucht, dieses Problem zu lösen. It took me half an hour to work out this problem.
Die Insel liegt eine Meile von der Küste entfernt. The island lies a mile off the coast.
Das Wörterbuch enthält ungefähr eine halbe Million Wörter. The dictionary contains about half a million words.
Er kann eine Meile schwimmen. He can swim a mile.
Ich werde nie halbe Sachen machen. I'll never do anything by halves.
Ich bin ungefähr eine Meile gelaufen. I walked about a mile.
Eine halbe Million Kinder im Niger leidet immer noch an Unterernährung. Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.
Ich habe ein Fischerboot ungefähr eine Meile von der Küste weg gesehen. I saw a fishing boat about a mile off the shore.
Er kam eine halbe Stunde zu spät. He turned up half an hour late.
Die Insel ist fast eine Meile breit. The island is nearly a mile across.
Wir brauchen eine halbe Stunde, um zur Schule zu laufen. It takes us half an hour to walk to school.
Imogen aus dem Internet kann über 110 Wörter pro Minute tippen, aber sie läuft eine Meile in 20 Minuten. Der Rest ihrer Familie hat das umgekehrte Problem. Imogen of the Internet can type over 110 words per minute, but runs a 20-minute mile. The rest of her family has the opposite problem.
Das Wörterbuch umfasst nahezu eine halbe Million Wörter. The dictionary gathers nearly half a million words.
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