Sentences with phrase «about a hundred yards»

The boat, now about a hundred yards offshore, had six inches of water in the bilge, which became seven, then eight, and she sailed a little sluggishly, I thought.
That has been in question since 2009, when a diver was returning alone to the habitat from a work site about a hundred yards away.
In fact, the three upper classes have the option to leave school for lunch, and many do grab something from the fast - food outlets near Fenway Park (about a hundred yards away).
The driveway led on down to a huddle of mellow brick buildings about a hundred yards away.
Pocketing the windfall, engineers are harnessing the body heat issuing from 250,000 railway travelers to help warm the thirteen - story Kungsbrohuset office building about a hundred yards away.
She is about a hundred yards from Totlenn's camp, moved there by Brinnt after she'd returned yesterday.
For about a hundred yards, the water is shallow -LSB-...]
We understand the body was found about a hundred yards off the Hummingbird Highway in Armenia Village.

Not exact matches

At that moment New York withered under a blast of 13 ° temperature, Chicago suffered under a 6 ° reading and it was 15 ° - below in International Falls, Minn. and Lebanon, N.H.. On the lake beyond Tropical's tote board white swans and sea gulls cruised about or beat the air and sailed a few hundred yards and sidled in for another freeload of tender shoots.
It also doesn't say squat about the literally hundreds of other things you could worry about (like kids with allergies and asthma getting their hands on certain foods, the host taking the kids in a car without a car seat, a backyard trampoline, alcohol / drugs left around the house, playing in the front yard abutting a very busy street, etc. etc. etc.) It's just meant to talk about your child's preparedness for being away from mom and dad.
I had a terrible cold, and the BBC was beginning to worry about all these stories saying how they were spending too much money, so we weren't staying in the Grand, we were in the Old Ship a few hundred yards down, which of course saved us.
A cubic yard of air contains hundreds of thousands of microscopic specks, but only about one in a million possesses the exact molecular geometry that will organize water molecules on its surface to spawn an ice crystal.
The cool thing about car pushing is that there are literally hundreds of yards of empty space around somewhere near you, so all you have to do is put it in neutral, drop your head down, arms straight, get low and push with all you've got for 10 - 30 seconds.
Kenny had filled his tag for a cow elk the next, from a small herd grazing in a meadow, making a clean shot at about two hundred yards.
I've been told hundreds of times that Fluffy never leaves the house or yard, but no matter how often I caution my clients about the possible consequences, lots of them still don't provide any identification for their cats.
Below us, a small sand beach ran into the lagoon which stretched toward the reef about three hundred yards off the coast.
A few hundred yards further south, in about 12» of water, there are two long, narrow anchors that are lying side by side as if lashed together when they fell into the water.
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