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One had what Maun described as a "thousand-mile stare."

The Seattle Times 2011

One had what Maun described as a "thousand-mile stare."

The Seattle Times 2011

The second time he went out was even worse than the first, with that thousand-mile stare in his eyes.

On the shelf : Bev Vincent 2009

The second time he went out was even worse than the first, with that thousand-mile stare in his eyes.

2009 October : Bev Vincent 2009

Another thousand-mile pipeline was proposed to run between Türkmenabat (former Chardzou), Turkmenistan, to Pakistan's Arabian Sea Coast.

Blue Bayou Olga Bonfiglio 2010

Long story short: trucks are better for short runs (from railheads to destination, eg, or in-state transport, perhaps), and trains work best at longer distances and with bigger loads (think thousand-mile journeys with 100-200 semi-sized trailer/containers – trains work much better).

Matthew Yglesias » Rail in the Stimulus 2009

So it is that 100,000 of these enterprising birds take off, every decade, at who knows what signal, on a thousand-mile flight to their paradise in the desert—a journey fascinatingly detailed here.

What a Knockout of a Series Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011

Another thousand-mile pipeline was proposed to run between Türkmenabat (former Chardzou), Turkmenistan, to Pakistan's Arabian Sea Coast.

Archive 2010-05-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010

Magellan Penguins annually leave their colonies in Patagonia and Antarctica to undertake a thousand-mile journey in search of food.

Penguins Stranded On Brazilian Beaches, Pollution And Overfishing To Blame (VIDEO) 2010

The French colony was but a minor appendage to the south of the immense Chinese landmass, with a five-hundred-mile border with China and a thousand-mile coastline, seemingly glued as an afterthought to the Southeast Asian subcontinent of Burma and Thailand.

'Valley of Death' 2010