Sentences with phrase «about a foot of»

I felt like you only got about a foot of space to swim in.

Smotherman's signature shot of the championship came on the penultimate hole when he stuck his approach shot to within about a foot of the hole to secure a birdie and claim the lead with one hole to play.

«New York City has experienced about a foot of sea - level rise over the last century.

«Hybrid» solution with small barriers affordable now Assuming a «middle climate change» scenario of about a foot of sea - level rise by midcentury, the team further assessed the cost - effectiveness of each flood - control strategy by measuring whether its benefits, or avoided risk, would outweigh the investment costs.

My condition became so dire that I ended up undergoing emergency surgery on June 1, 2012, to remove about a foot of very diseased tissue.

We also got about a foot of snow over here in Atlanta over the weekend too!

And it kept my feet nice and toasty since we had about a foot of snow I actually was in love with the whole outfit.

Between approximately 10 a.m. EST on Sunday, Feb. 1 (Super Bowl Sunday) and 7 a.m. EST on Monday, Feb. 2 (Groundhog Day), about a foot of snow dropped on Ann Arbor, Michigan, rendering its poorly plowed roads impassable by the majority of Michigan's vehicles, which are typically equipped with useless all - season tires and driven by similarly useless people.

Then we started out down a semi-plowed 200 - foot driveway with about a foot of snow over compressed snow and ice from a previous storm.

Rather than taking up about a foot of the bed length to give you a place for your must - have items, the RamBox ® builds a lockable storage space into the sidewall.

With heat and more legroom than in many large cars, six - foot teens behind six - foot adults still have about a foot of legroom from their knees to the back of the front seat.

The current rate of rise will result in about a foot of rise between 2000 and 2100.

Slow down the Gulf Stream by dumping cold water into the North Atlantic and you can get about a foot of sea level increase off the US East Coast.

The New York plan linked from there talks about feet of SLR.

The perimeter you traced during setup is lined with a «chaperone» fence that appears when you get within about a foot of the limit, so you can avoid hitting walls or furniture.

The gravel looked a little deep, but I didn't want to get left behind so I followed in my Ford Mustang in about a foot of gravel.

If so, it should be large enough to cover most of the landing, revealing about a foot of flooring on all sides.

Unfortunately, I ran out of hem tape and had about a foot of curtain left to hem so I tried fabric glue instead (cause I don't sew) and it didn't work nearly as well.

Not exact matches

John Snyder, the general manager for a 45,000 - square - foot cultivation site in Pueblo, produces about 40 pounds of cannabis a week.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the Mancos Shale formation in Colorado's Piceance (PEE» - yahns) Basin holds about 66.3 trillion cubic feet of gas, up from 1.6 trillion estimated in 2003.

King says to expect «strong statements about basketball» this year, likely in the form of getting «innovative product» on players» feet.

And talking about how to put people on more equal economic footing can be challenging to reconcile with capitalist principles of private ownership and free markets.

I sat standing 1 foot away from somebody who's been in prison for 15 years of his life and I had 60 seconds to open up to him about something that causes me pain in my life while he stares into my eyes I found myself going deeper than I would with even friends or family.

Ken Allen has a favorite story about a man who turned a case of cold feet into a small fortune.

Boehner said he would continue to talk with the Republican caucus in the House about immigration reform, but he laid the blame at President Obama's feet, suggesting the issue was one of trust.

If you're excited about the idea of taking a refreshing shower at 40,000 feet in the air, here's what you need to know about the airlines that offer these coveted showers.

When they make it to the ground, they crawl at a pace of about 1 foot per minute, according to the World Wildlife Federation.

It calls for 200,000 square feet of gaming, 1,250 rooms at three different hotel concepts and about one million square feet of office space, plus nature trails.

McRaven talked about being in SEAL training and reflecting on a crew of physically small classmates, none of whom was more than five - feet - five.

That's nearly 20 times the speed of sound, and it allows Minuteman IIIs to strike a target within about 30 minutes from more than 6,000 miles away, accurate to within hundreds of feet.

The founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online retail mortgage lender, Gilbert is spearheading the revitalization of his native Detroit, investing $ 1.3 billion (and counting) to acquire and renovate more than 60 commercial properties occupying about 9 million square feet of Motor City real estate.

«Taking advantage of the rising - sea - floor amplification effect, tsunami waves reaching 100 meters in height» — about 330 feet — «are possible,» Richardson said.

His paint jobs — applied in about an hour and a half using a spray nozzle attached to a jug of «100 percent nontoxic flower - based» liquid dye — cost about $ 175 each for an average Greater Long Beach area front yard (which around 500 square feet, on average).

A lot of the time, we focus on our upper body or faces, yet our feet reveal more about our emotions than we might think:

We are planning a new corporate headquarters (about 20,000 square feet to start, expandable to 60,000) and another major data center build by the end of this year.

Giving new hires a few small, manageable tasks (and be sure to provide plenty of details about what they entail) their first day will help them to get their feet wet and see the kind of work they'll be doing, without feeling overwhelmed.

For $ 1 million, you can only buy 16 square meters there, about 172 square feet — the size of a respectable walk - in closet.

But when he had to talk about something like the lack of diversity on campus, he would ramble on for 20 minutes while looking at his feet.

Today's price of about US$ 300 per thousand board feet is actually lower than it was a year ago, but Underhill thinks it could hit US$ 600.

The county seat of Greeley sold 1,575 acre - feet of water last year to contractors that supply fracking companies, and made about $ 4.1 million.

The problem isn't the percentage of oxygen in the air, which stays relatively constant at about 21 % until about 70,000 feet — it's the lack of air pressure.

Instead of a trench, the pipeline will be built about 85 feet underground using special boring equipment, Baskins said.

One of the leading complaints people have about trail runners is that they leave the feet hot and sweaty.

«What we've done is renovate about 100 acres of park space, added 46,000 square feet of museum space, a café and raised the riverfront about 30 inches to prevent flooding,» he explained to CNBC recently.

The average guy coming into Hammer & Nails has some sort of foot fungus and doesn't know about it.

With retailers jostling to locate as close to the World Trade Center site as possible, Brookfield Office Properties announced plans in June to improve and expand retail offerings in about 180,000 square feet of retail space at the World Financial Center, just west of the World Trade Center site, as part of a $ 250 million upgrade of the four - building complex.

Most people's parents never talked to them about taking care of their feet.

That's because, «We send about 60 % of our pork variety meats» — things like pig feet and hocks — «to China currently,» explains Dr. Scott Brown, an assistant extension professor of agriculture and applied economics at the University of Missouri.

An actor on the movie spoke to Vulture anonymously about the experience of working with Lord and Miller and then Howard, and painted a picture of a set that didn't find its footing until Howard came on board.

I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.»