Sentences with phrase «about a hundred miles»

By Martill's reckoning, he had to drive «about a hundred miles» to find even building plaster, a poor prepping substitute.

At one point, we were about a hundred miles off the coast of New York City when we drifted over a place known to scientists as the Hudson Canyon, which is where the Hudson River used to drop over the continental shelf twenty thousand years ago when seas were lower.

I love browsing bookstores, but I have to drive about a hundred miles for some good ones.

Plans were made to supplement Hong Kong water with some 500,000 gallons a day brought in from Canton, about a hundred miles from Hong Kong.

Amarillo is a major city in the Texas Panhandle, about a hundred miles due north of Lubbock.

Bakersfield is located near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, nestled in Kern County about halfway between Fresno and Los Angeles, each of which is about a hundred miles north or south, respectively.

There is a Norwegian Elkhound in a shelter about a hundred miles from my area.

But I began to see that there is even a point in being doctrinaire and rigid about the hundred miles, for you learn the value of what you are missing, but more importantly, what you have.

From here you head east on US 50, which the tourist people bill as «The Loneliest Road in America» (it isn't, by any measure), then turn off on Nevada 722, which might be a contender — in about a hundred miles, saw 5 cows on the road, but no cars.

Today's airship designers share a vision: magnificent amounts of trucking going on in the sky — regular convoys of enormous airships carrying timber, coal, wind turbines, prefabricated homes, or an entire summer harvest, puttering gently along at about a hundred miles an hour, ten thousand feet over our heads.

Amarillo is a major city in the Texas Panhandle, about a hundred miles due north of Lubbock.

Bakersfield is located near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, nestled in Kern County about halfway between Fresno and Los Angeles, each of which is about a hundred miles north or south, respectively.

Having spent the past year on different continents - I moved to America for a year as part of my degree while he stayed in in the UK - we are now living in two English towns, about a hundred miles apart.

Not exact matches

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.

When the angel measured the city, it was about fifteen hundred miles high and fifteen hundred miles wide.

The Russians are more likely to be a few hundred miles off the coast, which should allow us about five minutes to leave our change of address at the Post Office and join the gridlock on Interstate 680.

This church at Colossae, a hundred miles east of Ephesus, was never visited by Paul, but he was concerned about the Christian groups everywhere.

I am doing that this year, too, but I confess that I have also been driving four miles to the crossroads store at Demers Centre, just south of Chapeau (which, with a population of about two hundred, is the metropolitan center of L'ile aux Allumettes) to pick up the papers.

Families of the victims accompanied black and white hearses in limousines as fire marshals and sheriff's deputies shepherded hundreds more - some in funeral attire, others in everyday clothes - to the service in Floresville, Texas, about 12 miles from the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, where the shooting occurred.

According to Jeans its diameter is about 200,000 light - years and it takes 3 million years to complete a single revolution, at a peripheral speed of several hundred miles per second.

In this particular quasar, the water vapor is distributed around the black hole in a gaseous region spanning hundreds of light - years in size (a light - year is about six trillion miles).

«Jerusalem and Mecca are hundred of miles apart, both geographically and theologically, and never has anyone in this mosque expected me to be anything but straightforward about that separation,» he said.

In fact, it was hundreds of miles away, while talking to my former pastor about where we would move those flags for an upcoming service, that I realized just how bizarre and, well, kind of disturbing that flag - draped scene really is.

The indicated distance of about seven miles (literally sixty stadia) from Jerusalem would narrowly limit the possibilities if its accuracy were not made doubtful by a different reading in a few important manuscripts, which read a hundred and sixty stadia, i.e., about eighteen miles.

Covey grew up within a mile of Cougar Stadium, cutting out hundreds of articles about Brigham Young football for his scrapbooks, attending home games, mimicking the great BYU quarterbacks in his backyard.

Jim Kennard and Roger Pawlowski, both of the Rochester area, said the wreck of the Bay State is in water hundreds of feet deep, about seven miles off Fair Haven in central New York, 155 miles west of Albany.

In the ten weeks since they began, the ninety - seven participants taking part in the «A Better Me: Fit, Healthy and Happy» fitness program sponsored by the Oneida County Health Department have cumulatively walked the equivalent of 39 - hundred miles while learning about the benefits of proper nutrition and the prevention of diabetes and... Read more

Hundreds showed up at rallies in Fort Lauderdale, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) away, and in St. Petersburg, 250 miles (400 kilometers) northwest, to demand action on gun - control legislation.

Every week we hear shocking stories about children being held in police cells, or sent hundreds of miles away from home for care, because the right support isn't available in their own community.

It just doesn't make sense that hugely important decisions about credit, that can make the difference between a business succeeding or failing, are taken by someone hundreds of miles away who knows nothing about the business involved.

Community Walking Project Enters Final Phase «Team Members Log Twenty - One Million Steps» In the ten weeks since they began, the ninety - seven participants taking part in the «A Better Me: Fit, Healthy and Happy» fitness program sponsored by the Oneida County Health Department have cumulatively walked the equivalent of 39 - hundred miles while learning about the benefits of proper nutrition and the prevention of diabetes and obesity, according to Dr. Gayle Jones, Oneida County Director of Health.

Hundreds showed up at rallies in Fort Lauderdale, about 25 miles away, and in St. Petersburg, 250 miles northwest, to demand action on gun - control legislation.

We talked for a while about how the surfaces of Mars and other planets, despite being tens or hundreds of millions of miles away, are far more accessible than Earth's core.

The extinction at the end of the Permian is thought to have been caused by volcanic eruptions in Siberia over hundreds of thousands if not a million years that produced what are known today as the Siberian Traps: lava fields covering much of northern Russia and originally encompassing nearly 3 million square miles with an average thickness of about 1,000 feet.

Such a situation occurred about one hundred years ago when Los Angeles went looking for water in the Owens Valley about three hundred miles upstate on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

In a 2016 study, Kalra and a colleague showed that self - driving cars would have to trek hundreds of millions or perhaps billions of miles to demonstrate with comfortable certainty that they caused fewer fatalities than the average person (about 1.1 per 100 million miles driven).

Io is the most volcanically active world in the solar system, with hundreds of erupting volcanoes blasting fountains of lava up to 250 miles (about 400 kilometers) high.

Images from Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrometer (UVIS), obtained from an unusually close range of about six Saturn radii, provided a look at the changing patterns of faint emissions on scales of a few hundred miles (kilometers) and tied the changes in the auroras to the fluctuating wind of charged particles blowing off the sun and flowing past Saturn.

While little is known about any direct physiological effects of sonar waves on marine species, evidence shows that whales will swim hundreds of miles, rapidly change their depth (sometime leading to bleeding from the eyes and ears), and even beach themselves to get away from the sounds of sonar.

For example, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which launched in August, can see an object the size of Pluto located a few hundred astronomical units away [one astronomical unit is 96 million miles — the distance from the Earth to the s Sun], and Spitzer can detect a planet the size of Earth out to about 1,000 astronomical units.

Flying over the ice in a repurposed DC - 3 military airplane, seeing the massive icebergs and the miles - long fractures splitting the surface like frozen lightning bolts, she could not stop thinking about the chaotic terrain hundreds of millions of miles away on Europa.

Biologists had already observed this interaction in living systems — a coral reef whose millions of tightly networked members could communicate data about weather over hundreds of miles and a slime mold whose millions of member cells, spread out over acres, could coalesce and take organized action for survival at a moment's notice.

«You've got about a mile of rock between the areas you are fracturing and the drinking water,» says Doug Hock, a spokesperson for the U.S. Division of EnCana, which owns several hundred gas wells around Pavillion.

Van Nieuwenhuise said oil producers long have been puzzled about the Wilcox Formation's appearance in the Gulf's deeper waters, hundreds of miles from where it appears onshore.

It is a great book about how the Aztecs fueled on chia seeds mixed with water all day long as they logged hundreds of miles a week.

As there are none around for hundreds of miles (unlike back when we lived in Toronto and there was one within walking distance of my house), I recently placed my first ever online order with Forever 21 Canada (only great things to say about the experience — very much including the super quick shipping speed).

For years I searched, waited, hoped and dreamed about Mr. Right with the fevered intensity of a hungry cheetah hunting the last gazelle within a hundred miles.

Another aspect we love about MaiGamer is their focus on helping you meet like - minded men and women near you, so you won't see anyone hundreds or thousands of miles away in your match results.

When she learns about a screenplay competition, Wendy completes a 500 - page Star Trek script and becomes determined to enter, even if it means traveling hundreds of miles outside of her sheltered and protected life to submit in person, much to the concern of her big sister (Alice Eve) and therapist (Toni Collette), both of whom are impressed with Wendy's determination and drive.

I announced the availability of the presentation on the e-mail list for the technology coordinators group, and immediately, participants from hundreds of miles jumped in to listen and chat about what was going on.