Sentences with phrase «idle hours in»

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It seems like I spend twice as long in the car every day idling my way through rush hour and staring at the rusted bumper of the car in front of me, when I could be writing and connecting with clients at work.

The company claims its service conserves one gallon of fuel per idling hour per truck, and with more than one million truckers on the road at any given time, the savings add up — so far, says Wilson, eight million gallons of fuel have been saved, 83,000 metric tons of emissions have been eliminated, and 150,000 road cowboys have plugged in.

In the intervening 17 hours, a compounding series of misfortunes — a broken de-icing machine, frozen engines and brakes, a lack of gates at the terminal, a plane that idled so long it had to refuel, a crew that worked so long it needed to be replaced — turned the flight into an almanac of the indignities of modern air travel.

I can recall waiting in line with my late father for hours to get a tank full of gas because shortages were so widespread that refineries around the country sat idle.

The people close to Didi pointed to the fact that most personal vehicles sit idle in parking lots for 22 hours a day or more.

EUR / USD: Euro Proves Stable after U.S Fed PolicyThe Euro has idled in place the past twenty - four hours and remains below the 1.20 juncture versus the U.S Dollar.

Going out three hours later he saw some more men standing idle in the market place.

«And at the third hour he went out and saw others standing idle in the market place and said to them, Go also into the vineyard, and I will give you what is right.

Yes, I said, he lives from day to day indulging the appetite of the hour; and sometimes he is lapped in drink and strains of the flute; then he becomes a water - drinker, and tries to get thin; then he takes a turn at gymnastics; sometimes idling and neglecting everything, then once more living the life of a philosopher; often he - is busy with politics, and starts to his feet and says and does whatever comes into his head; and, if he is emulous of any one who is a warrior, off he is in that direction, or of men of business, once more in that.

In just one hour, an idling engine can use more than a half - gallon of fuel and can cause the equivalent of 30 miles of engine wear and tear.

Two charter buses idling in downtown Manhattan in the early hours of the morning on a weekday would usually be full of mismatched tourists from far - flung states and countries, waiting to gape at the Wall Street bull and his recently - placed female antagonist.

While he waited for hours to get out, he let a truck driver stay warm in his idling vehicle because the other driver's truck was totaled.

In the beginning, they may be a harmless way to pass idle hours, but later they mutate into an obsession.

Those modifications include stop — start (idle - off) systems in which the engine shuts down when the car is stopped during driving; low rolling - resistance tires (which are harder and thus less flat, reducing friction); variable valve timing for engines, which increases gas consumption efficiency; and fuel economy computers or displays to encourage eco-driving, such as such as those in the Toyota Prius, which show miles per gallon averages for that moment, hour, week or month, or when riding downhill, so that drivers are more aware of how their driving impacts fuel efficiency.

With U.S. commuters spending an estimated 500 million hours per week in their vehicles, carmakers, software companies and content providers are trying to figure out how to take advantage of new high - speed wireless network technologies to help drivers have better Internet access during this often idle time.

It sometimes zoomed swiftly to a new location, and sometimes sat idling in one area, like a vehicle in stop - and - go rush - hour traffic.

Eliza Hittman's assured second feature is set in present - day South Brooklyn, where Frankie (the British actor Harris Dickinson) idles away the hours with his posse, smoking weed, strolling the beaches and watching the fireworks at night.

Blu - ray extras include audio commentary by Jones and Gilliam; a 30th anniversary piece that reunites everyone (save Chapman, who passed away in 1989) for an hour - long chat; a making - of featurette; deleted scenes; a look at the musical numbers; and a prologue featuring Idle.

Rather than idle away precious hours on trivial stories or randomly chosen nonfiction, reading, writing, and listening instruction would be built into the study of ancient civilizations in first grade, for example, Greek mythology in second, or the human body in third.

Water got in the carb and added dry gas and let it run for 3 hours at idle and it runs fine now.

I then drove 170 miles with no visible issue, even stopped and idled for about half an hour in the middle, and about a mile before my house I smelled the burning smell again and the coolant temp spiked very suddenly.

Northamptonshire, UK - based Olly has been far from idle in the intervening period and took part in his 12th consecutive 24 Hours of Le Mans with Corvette Racing.

In rush hour, I leave the transmission in automatic mode and the car offers little of the nervous rattly urgency of the 997 — which had an agriculturally heavy clutch, and sounded like a bucket of bolts at idlIn rush hour, I leave the transmission in automatic mode and the car offers little of the nervous rattly urgency of the 997 — which had an agriculturally heavy clutch, and sounded like a bucket of bolts at idlin automatic mode and the car offers little of the nervous rattly urgency of the 997 — which had an agriculturally heavy clutch, and sounded like a bucket of bolts at idle.

In standby / airplane mode, the tablet uses like 1 % battery in 24 - 36 hours so you don't have to worry about leaving the tablet idle for days and coming home to a dead tableIn standby / airplane mode, the tablet uses like 1 % battery in 24 - 36 hours so you don't have to worry about leaving the tablet idle for days and coming home to a dead tablein 24 - 36 hours so you don't have to worry about leaving the tablet idle for days and coming home to a dead tablet.

It was his brother Peter, however, who was allowed to train as one of the new Special Operations Forces that sprang up during World War II; Ian was left to spin stories in his idle hours about a character he would eventually name James Bond.

Enjoy the cosy sitting room with its fireplace, or idle away the hours in the sun filled conservatory.

Idlers being those who sit in empty servers or servers especially made for idling and leaving their game for hours at a time for the sole benefit of obtaining items.

The only way I expect to get it is to have a federal regulation that says «Thermal leakage of furnaces when the burner is idle shall not exceed x BTU per hour in furnaces of up to Y heating capacity, etc. etc..»

In October 2010, Climate Depot made international headlines by breaking the story of Gore's car left idling during an hour long speech.

Requires (1) bottle - type water dispensers designed for dispensing both hot and cold water to not have standby energy consumption greater than 1.2 kilowatt - hours; (2) commercial hot food holding cabinets with interior volumes of 8 cubic feet or greater to have a maximum idle energy rate of 40 watts per cubic foot of interior volume; and (3) portable electric spas to not have a normalized standby power greater than 5 (V 2/3) watts where V equals the fill volume in gallons.

a recent study found that in Edmonton alone, drivers spend a whopping 5,000 hours idling in Tim Hortons drive - thrus while waiting for their double - doubles and Boston Cremes, choking out about 23.5 tonnes of greenhouse gases.

In addition to sitting in an idle position for many hours every day while transporting goods, equipment and materials, many truckers are required to load and unload heavy cargo causing additional injurIn addition to sitting in an idle position for many hours every day while transporting goods, equipment and materials, many truckers are required to load and unload heavy cargo causing additional injurin an idle position for many hours every day while transporting goods, equipment and materials, many truckers are required to load and unload heavy cargo causing additional injury.

Each week, criminal defence lawyers spend countless idle hours waiting in court for their cases to be heard by a judge.

In our tests, we found that the system can last almost eleven hours at idle.

I kept it in idle position for at least 7 hours, and the battery went from 22 % to 16 % over the period, a drop of 6 %.

I haven't been able to put it through its paces yet, but in my experience with it last night, I kept neurotically checking the battery life estimator and it kept throwing up figures close to 10 hours, even on a laptop that was two - thirds charged and not sitting idle.

Talking about the standby performance, the Yutopia was able to manage good standby time, as we saw 5 - 8 % drop during an idle state in the night, which was about 7 hours.