Sentences with phrase «up to a few miles»

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Few people would survive within the immediate damage zone, which may extend up to one or two miles wide, but those outside would have a chance.

You may be able to earn extra miles by finding a card with a sign - up bonus (that gives you additional miles for spending a certain amount of money within a few months of opening your account).

These «wall connectors» add up to 60 miles of range per hour, easily giving Model S and Model X a full charge in a few hours.

I've even considered waking up before the baby to get in a few miles of walking each morning.

Willing to travel many miles for a feast, we wound up just a few minutes down the road.

It can also get you pink salt that's «found naturally deep inside the pristine Himalayan Mountains» — and has racked up a fair few food miles by the time it gets to our supermarket shelves.

Buyers can preview models a few miles south of Reunion at Green Valley Ranch, where they'll see wide - open entertaining spaces and up to eight bedrooms.

However, even with the highway, much of the Baja still remains isolated and unpopulated, consisting mostly of rugged mountains (up to 10,000 feet tall), along with 800 miles of harsh desert, with few facilities for travelers.

when I signed up, it was billed as a «5k» (with obstacles and such), a few weeks before the race they were calling it «about 5k», the week of the race they were saying «3 to 5 miles».

One is to take a four - mile run up a trail in the hills, a way few know about, a path so narrow it begins to close in behind him as he follows its course.

Townsend shows up to a practice for the Baltimore All - Stars few minutes after 6 p.m. wearing a ski hat to ward off the chill in Elkridge, a suburb about 10 miles from the Douglass campus and right outside the borders of Baltimore County.

La Mancha represents a dramatic step up in class for the 22 - year - old Carbajal, who learned to box in a makeshift ring that his oldest brother, Danny, who's now his manager, built for him in the family garage, a few miles but many dollars away.

After being all packed up and only a few miles down the road heading back to the city we were already discussing that we should come back in the warmer months to experience it in a different season along with utilizing that outdoor shower they had.

The other day we went to a parade, and unintentionally ended up walking a few miles from our car with our toddler in the 90 degree heat of July.

That is why we want more of our great universities to set up or sponsor schools in the state sector — just as the University of Birmingham has done, a few miles from here.

Last Tuesday five senior Tories took to a stage in London and lined up in a formation dismissed as Kraftwerk-esque, while a few hundred miles north Ed Miliband searched for friendly questions in Salford.

Silver didn't knock down the suspicion that he was about making as much money as possible a few years ago when he began defending his bizarre practice of flying on the state's dime from New York City to Albany via Washington, DC, or some other distant spot so he could pick up a few extra frequent flier miles for his personal use.

A few hundred miles to the west, a Democratic stronghold that includes South Buffalo is a mash - up of party identities.

They form during the long, frigid winter nights in the Arctic and Antarctic, up to 15 miles above Earth's surface — high enough to catch a few of the sun's rays even when the surface lies in season - long darkness.

The U.S. may enjoy the world's most extensive highway system at present, but the Chinese are rapidly catching up — from a few paved highways in the 1980s to 2.2 million miles (3.6 million kilometers) of paved roads in 2007.

Even though 310 miles up is technically outer space, a few air molecules still float around — not enough to make the slightest difference to astronauts on a space shuttle or the space station, which orbit considerably lower, but sufficient to slow the GRACE satellites perceptibly.

One morning later that spring, Boyd rolled up her pants and waded across the Devils River to Cedar Springs, a horseshoe - shaped site a few miles north of Mystic Shelter (see photo above).

But, we did a few changes, we got back on our next run and we got up to 97.3 miles an hour....

By the time the teenagers turned to head back, just a few feet from the summit, the wind was gusting at up to 94 miles an hour, visibility was less than 10 feet, and the temperature had fallen below zero.

Jupiter's fast 10 - hour rotation stirs up its insides and generates a huge magnetic field that is a few million miles wide and up to hundreds of millions of miles long.

Since most of today's cell phones can pick up GPS signals, the data they generate are highly accurate, typically to tens of feet and a few miles per hour.

The sound the organisms emit is likely only detectable a few hundred meters to a few kilometers (or up to a little more than half a mile) away, but that may be enough to signal predators listening nearby that their prey is on the move, Baumann - Pickering said.

You upped the intensity on leg day or you tacked on a few more miles to your long run and you're feeling strong.

In all my MAF runs, I start out quite slow, 20 BPM or more under my MAF HR, and let it climb up to MAF over the course of a few miles.

In the past, I tried to take up running but quit when I started having knee pain whenever I ran for more than a few minutes (I had carefully worked up to 2 miles and then feeling over-confident ran 4 miles and my knee was never the same again).

Gold sandals are the perfect nude when you want to kick your outfits up a notch and go the long mile, so I always like to invest in a great pair to wear for a few years.

I opted to get outside and walk a few miles with my neighbors this morning instead of getting this post up.

So if you see the perfect lookout to watch the sunset, or you know there is an infamous local ice cream shop just a few miles off your route, or you pass a sign for some wacky tourist spot that looks too promising to pass up, don't be afraid to stop for a few minutes or an hour.

I've been chatting with a girl online for a few weeks but I'm not sure whether to meet up because she lives 300 miles away from me.

But lots of other men that I contacted first came up with ridic excuses: you live too far away for me to bother with (a few miles!?)

Simon and Robyn have re-located to Southern California for a fresh start, to a town a few miles north of where Simon grew up.

The work of Radijojo should also be seen in the context of the personal motivations that lead to the engagement for peace: Radijojo's founder Thomas Röhlinger grew up just a few miles away from the historical place of concentration camp KZ Buchenwald.

A few years ago Loudoun County drew school boundaries in such a way that the children of low - income families — many of them Hispanic — living in a few apartment complexes were dispersed into a few different schools up to three miles away from their homes.

It also went a long way in my benefit when I had to answer for two tickets at the scene — Not guilty on both, only because I could tell the courts everything about the experience, where I was, how many cars were on the road, how I had passed two police cars a few miles up the road, etc, etc..

A mandatory inspection station is set up a few miles down the road from the summit, where attendants stop each and every car to check brake temps with an infrared thermometer gun and issue warnings where necessary.

After stopping / starting the car a few times, both to display my excellence, and to pick up pizza and beer, I pulled onto the main highway a few miles from my house, got up to 30 mph, and the engine died.

Our stylish, Liquid Copper Four Seasons 2017 Infiniti QX30S has quickly racked up 5,547 miles on the odometer — mostly from local Southern California runs but also a few road trips to San Diego, Santa Barbara, Las Vegas, Nevada, and a longer one to Ahwatukee, Arizona.

Even though it's a two - lane, everyone seems to agree that highway speeds are appropriate — I'm bummed to see an eighteen - wheeler up ahead until I realize, a few miles later, that I'm doing 65 mph and not catching up to him.

I do a few donuts to cheer him up, and then we drive fifty - five miles north to Infineon Raceway, where we enter the Tesla in Wednesday Night Drags.

Parked up in our usual spot near the top of the Triangle mid-morning, it feels like an age since those first few miles the day before, and in some ways I don't feel any closer to choosing between the two cars.

There's just enough time for me to chase the sun for a few more miles, soaking up every last drop of Michigan daylight.

After a few unladen miles between the QSW drop - off and the Alero pick - up, I was thrilled to have some ballast for the long ride home.

In fact, if the factory claims stack up, the Ferrari accelerates with a sustained intensity to which few cars would be able to find an honest answer, covering the standing quarter - mile in a fraction over 12 seconds on the way to its 193mph top speed.

Some of that astonishing grip comes from the lightly treaded A048 Yokohama tyres, but the stiff yet supple chassis set - up optimises them, working the rubber into the tarmac so fully you'd expect it to last no more than a few hundred miles (where in fact you should see around 9000 from a set of Yokos).

Give them a few miles to warm up, if possible, before you put any extreme cornering, acceleration and braking loads through them.