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four-minute mile in British English (ˈfɔːˌmɪnɪt maɪl) noun athletics a mile-long race run in four minutes or less Examples of 'four-minute mile' in a sentencefour-minute mile One guy runs a four-minute mile for the first time and suddenly there are a bunch of guys doing it.This might be my chance to break the four-minute mile.The loss led to a new goal: the four-minute mile.The four-minute mile was just another step in human evolution.It is, for him, the modern-day equivalent of the four-minute mile.They had met at a party a fortnight before his first four-minute mile.Like the four-minute mile, it is, of course, an arbitrary objective. © Paul Hakimata Photography, shutterstock |