Sentences with phrase «about a kilometer in»

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The Arkema plant in Crosby, Texas, is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north east of Houston.

In June, Shanghai opened the country's first intelligent vehicle pilot zone, where its trialed about 200 vehicles across nine miles (15 kilometers) of test roads in a closed zone at Shanghai's international automobile city, the government said in a statemenIn June, Shanghai opened the country's first intelligent vehicle pilot zone, where its trialed about 200 vehicles across nine miles (15 kilometers) of test roads in a closed zone at Shanghai's international automobile city, the government said in a statemenin a closed zone at Shanghai's international automobile city, the government said in a statemenin a statement.

The weather forecast was nasty — rain, temperatures near zero and possible snow — and we were set to do back country camping, about five kilometers in from the nearest road.

These permitted maximum emissions of 44 milligrams of NOx per kilometer, about one - fourth the 180 mg / km permitted by the Euro 5 standard that would also take effect in 2009.

Backed by U.S. air support, they've swept west from their bases in Iraqi Kurdistan and captured a huge swath of northeast Syria, estimated by one official at about 17,000 square kilometers.

When I was growing up in Austria, about 20 kilometers outside Innsbruck, I wanted to become a chef.

Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning said the missile was launched from Sain Ni, North Korea, and traveled about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) before landing in the Sea of Japan within 370 nautical kilometers (200 nautical miles) of Japan's coast.

Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said the missile landed inside of Japan's special economic zone in the Sea of Japan, about 250 kilometers 155 miles) west of Aomori, which is on the northern part of Japan's main island of Honshu.

Now imagine the same information cloaked in the trappings of a great story, «a story about a family in South America that is being affected by changes in the global economy — a story about the father going to work in a foreign country to earn enough for the family, and the mother having to drive 100 kilometers for health care.»

The missile flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and landed in the sea east of Japan, but it crested at a remarkable 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles) above the Earth's surface, making it the highest and longest - lasting flight North Korea has completed to date.

Xiao Zufu, 44, who works in brand sales, needed to do just that on a recent trip from his home in Zhejiang Province to Shanghai, about 380 kilometers or 236 miles away.

In an unfamiliar town and his battery down to about 60 kilometers of charge left, he used QQ to find a fellow Tesla owner nearby who let him charge his battery.

«If I'm driving a diesel car, even if the light has turned yellow I'm confident there's still about 50 kilometers left in the car.

Puerto Rican police said the incident occurred around midnight Saturday in the town of Comerio, about 19 miles (30 kilometers) southwest of San Juan.

The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade came ashore late Friday about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Corpus Christi as a mammoth Category 4 storm with 130 mph (209 kph) winds.

The Matternet M2 drones that attained clearance in Switzerland have a maximum range of 20 kilometers or about 12 miles, and can carry a 2 kilogram payload.

The attackers reportedly rode up in pickup trucks and opened fire on the buses in Egypt's Minya province, about 220 kilometers from Cairo.

The distance to Jerusalem is about 190 miles (300 kilometers), a two week trip by donkey in ancient times.

They traveled to Bharatpur, about 150 kilometers west of Kathmandu, to make their public proclamation in Pastor Bishnu's church.

«At the place where we stood in hiding,» he says, «the cars would pass at about 40 kilometers an hour, so we had to skate very fast in order to catch them.

Barreling across the desert straightaway, air horns no doubt at the ready, Miller and Lange's Liberty Belle broke just about every record for such behemoths: in seven runs they smashed various standing - start and flying - start marks at a quarter mile, a half kilometer, a full kilometer and a mile — 14 in all, each of which has been certified by the U.S. Auto Club as a national record.

My grandmother lives 55 kilometers away from my parents and it's usually about a 40 minutes drive — on a main road where cars drive much faster than in any village, town or city.

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.

Worshippers at Dariqa mosque in Yartabki village, about 15 kilometers from Funtua were scared when they spotted a black polythene bag inside the mosque in the morning.

Researchers looked at the ratios of two forms of oxygen atoms in the minerals deposited in layers in two stalagmites that had formed in a cave in the Himalayan foothills about 200 kilometers north of New Delhi.

She and her colleagues compared the data with those from similar samples given by another ethnic group called the Saluan, who live about 25 kilometers away in the coastal village of Koyoan, but don't spend much time in the water.

Humans and cheetahs are a case in point: Although the two humans included in the team's study weighed in at 70 kilograms and had an average top speed of about 41 kilometers per hour, the heftiest cheetah weighed about 5 kilograms less but ran nearly three times as fast.

At about 500 kilometers in diameter, Enceladus is a diminutive natural satellite.

Most of the plains, which are visible across the whole moon, seem to originate from debris spewed from the Orientale basin, a 930 - kilometer - wide bowl in the moon's southern hemisphere that formed about 3.8 billion years ago.

And unlike large land mammals in the region, whose dispersal northward was blocked by two broad rivers, these semiaquatic otters and their kin were able to spread unhindered; fossils of a similar species from approximately the same era have been unearthed at another site about 1400 kilometers to the northeast.

In a secluded stretch of desert about 300 kilometers south of Cairo, hundreds of bodies lie buried in the sanIn a secluded stretch of desert about 300 kilometers south of Cairo, hundreds of bodies lie buried in the sanin the sand.

A model of the flows in Earth's mantle below North America, developed by the scientists, reveals that the mantle material below 200 kilometers flows westward at a velocity of about 4 millimeters per year.

Their tremendous mass was packed into spheres about 150 kilometers in diameter.

From there they built a convincing case that Sagittarius A * was in fact a black hole — the biggest one in the galaxy, with a mass 4.3 million times that of the sun and a diameter of about 25 million kilometers.

At its closest, G2 will pass about 25 billion kilometers from the event horizon, far enough that it is unlikely to get entirely sucked in.

It forms only at pressures greater than about 24 gigapascals — corresponding to depths between 610 and 800 kilometers, researchers report March 8 in Science.

«It's about two orders of magnitude faster if measured by the number of kilometers a species would have to move,» said P. David Polly, a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at Indiana University.

For about 10 kilometers, the river passes through the Hobet 21 surface mining complex, which has been active since the 1970s and is among the largest in the Appalachian coalfields.

Those pictures, some of which are sharp enough to spot features 10 centimeters across, were taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which has been orbiting the comet (seen here in July from a distance of about 160 kilometers) for more than a year now.

Fossils of the other new species, found in rocks of a similar age a few dozen kilometers away, suggest that creature — dubbed Vilevolodon, roughly from the Latin for «toothed glider» — was about as large as a midsized mouse.

Correlations among the three data sets revealed that temperature deep in the mantle varied between around 1,300 and 1,550 degrees Celsius underneath about 61,000 kilometers of ridge terrain.

That disagreement may exist, Tharimena says, because to study continental thickness, seismologists had previously analyzed fairly shallow earthquake vibrations that couldn't show Earth's structure in fine detail at depths greater than about 150 kilometers.

About 40 kilometers off Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, in the waters of Lake Superior, rises the stone lighthouse of Stannard Rock.

In such unique, dense environments, galaxies move at a speed of about 1000 kilometers per second.

Each site varied in the number of people living within one kilometer (about five - eighths of a mile)-- from nearly a dozen to over 17 thousand.

In 2018, just next year folks, let's hope, NASA is going to be launching its James Webb Space Telescope, a giant piece of kit that's going to be about one and a half million kilometers out there beyond the orbit of the moon, and it's going to be able to look at these planets as they transit across the face of the star.

It has covered about nine - tenths of a mile (1.5 kilometers) in 23 driving days and brought the mission's odometer tally up to 4.9 miles (7.9 kilometers).

The new images show the spot to be about 150 miles (240 kilometers) smaller than it was in 2014.

The analysis, reported in the 10 August issue of the Astrophysical Journal, showed that cool, denser gas inside the spot sank into the sun at about 5000 kilometers per hour.