Sentences with phrase «about a meter from»

The house wave a short paddle from the beach is set before one of the most stunning backdrops in the region, this super-fun right lies about meters from the resort.

Not exact matches

Gorilla cover glass, which is found in about 5 billion of the world's smartphones, tablets and other devices, can survive a fall from selfie - taking height — about a meter and a half — without cracking in most cases.

We were about 250 meters from the fence,» said Abu Amra.

One unit moved forward, the convoy remained in place, about 300 meters from the others.

«About 8,700 meters» — that's meters above sea level, or 500 feet from the summit.

Early numbers from Nielsen show that Game 7 on ABC earned an overnight average rating of 18.9, which means the game averaged about an 18.9 % share of Nielsen's metered markets throughout the roughly three - hour broadcast.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Israel withdraws from the lake about 700 million cubic meters per year, which it puts into the National Water Carrier, the conduit supplying its population centers all the way to the Negev.

Covering an area of approximately 10,000 square meters in the small town of Kankaanpää, about three hours by car from Helsinki in the southwest of Finland...

Previously, different coffee varieties had been planted about the farm, which has altitudes range from 1,450 to 1,700 meters.

Just Saying No I was touched by Rick Reilly's column about Nick End, the Carnegie Mellonrunner who was disqualified from the NCAA Division III 10,000 - meter finalbecause his coach, Dario Donatelli, clicked the wrong button on the onlineentry form.

what's wrong with Girud???? even aquero need 4 shoots to make a goal, and you call him WC... what about sanches can not make a goal just 2 meters from the net... arsenal fans is sick..

The finals for the men's 4x400 - meter relay and women's 4x100 relay at the 2012 Olympics both take place on Friday, and the speculation about who, exactly, will be selected for the teams from nations» «relay pools» is now over.

However, be careful with the distance from the sound machine to your baby, at least two meters (about seven feet) as well as reduce the volume.

I just returned from vacation in a small town where the forest, although not literally DIRECTLY behind the hospital, does start only about 200 meters away.

They are mostly seen near the Tema Community One market branch of the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB), and the casino area which is about 100 meters away from the Community One Police station.

Even the World Bank pre-paid meters that were installed about 3 years ago have been deliberately damaged by AEDC personnel in order to continue to extort money from us.

At Abesan, Governor Ambode, who trekked about 900 meters from Church Road down to Giwa Street to inspect the Abesan link road, equally promised that work would commence on the road within the next two to three weeks.

An eyewitness told NAN that the gunmen stormed the premises of the three courts which were about 500 meters away from state police headquarters around 8 am.

In the stratum that formed in 1816, about 110 meters down from the surface, scientists found the acidic mark of Tambora.

But «Oumuamua could have an exterior crust — about half a meter thick or thicker — which hid the ice and insulated it from the sun's heat, the researchers calculated.

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We've been excavating a site on the beach about 10 meters from the high tide line for about 10 years, finding stone tools and ancient mammal bones and teeth.

To determine when fire became a routine part of the lives of the cave dwellers, the team looked at flints from about 100 layers of sediments in the lowermost 16 meters of the cave deposits.

One promising material is one that's filled with tiny holes that range in size from about a micron (10 - 6 meters) to about a nanometer (10 - 9 meters).

The Smilow, which opened in 2006, can withstand a storm surge of about 3.7 meters — 20 % higher than that expected from a once - per - century flood, according to the NYU.

A scientific team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has found a new way to take the local temperature of a material from an area about a billionth of a meter wide, or approximately 100,000 times thinner than a human hair.

The closest outcrop at bottom right was about 15 meters from the rover.

The rariphotic occurs just below a previously defined reef zone, the mesophotic, which extends from about 40 to as deep as 150 meters (about 120 - 450 feet).

Based on the unique fish fauna observed from a manned submersible on a southern Caribbean reef system in Curaçao, Smithsonian explorers defined a new ocean - life zone, the rariphotic, between 130 and 309 meters (about 400 to 1,000 feet) below the surface.

Based on the size of the full humerus, the researchers can estimate the size of the turtle, which they put at about 3 meters (9.8 feet) from nose to tail.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 8 or higher would stop the land from rising and also likely would bring about additional sea - level growth of 1 to 2 meters (3.3 to 6.6 feet) in the area, he said.

By measuring the radio - signal strength from all the transceivers while Wilson walked around inside the array, the system could calculate his location with an accuracy of about 1 meter.

The new images, at resolutions of about 80 meters per pixel, show a striking shoreline, where smooth plains of nitrogen ice from Pluto's «heart» rub up against water ice mountains several kilometers high.

The tests indicated that the deepest layer of artifacts — between about 2.15 and 2.6 meters below the surface — ranged in age from about 53,000 to 65,000 years.

Then the researchers injected about 50 liters of liquid CO2 into several plastic corrals in the ocean, 3600 meters deep, from a remotely operated vehicle.

The prototype technology, called Finding Individuals for Disaster and Emergency Response (FINDER) can locate individuals buried as deep as 30 feet (about 9 meters) in crushed materials, hidden behind 20 feet (about 6 meters) of solid concrete, and from a distance of 100 feet (about 30 meters) in open spaces.

As a result, the entire northern portion of Honshu, Japan's largest island, moved about 1 meter toward the east, with one site near the temblor's epicentre sliding 5.4 meters horizontally and sinking 1.1 meters — a sudden subsidence that aggravated the damage from the tsunami that slammed the shore minutes later.

That's about the same intensity as standing 15 meters away from a jet taking off.

The tsunami reached the coastline quickly; in some places the water had surged by more than three meters within about half an hour of the earthquake, according to data from the Japan Meteorological Agency.

At an altitude of about 5,200 meters on the Chajnantor Plateau, a Mars - like red expanse in Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place in the world, ALMA's matching antennas swivel in unison as observers collect light from cosmic objects.

As Stephen C. Riser and M. Susan Lozier note in their February 2013 Scientific American article, «Rethinking the Gulf Stream,» «A comparison of the Argo data with ocean observations from the 1980s, carried out by Dean Roemmich and John Gilson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, shows that the upper few hundred meters of the oceans have warmed by about 0.2 degree C in the past 20 years.

They compared the Tibetans to a group of 50 volunteers from the Cleveland area, which is about 200 meters above sea level.

The paper is one of six appearing in the journal that reports results from the analysis of data and observations obtained during Curiosity's exploration at Yellowknife Bay — an expanse of bare bedrock in Gale Crater about 500 meters from the rover's landing site.

Standing less than waist high, these lithe, bipedal creatures measured as much as 1.5 meters long from the tip of their snout to the tip of their tail and weighed about 23.5 kilograms (about as much as a medium - sized dog), says Xing Xu, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

He suspects that about 1 meter of coastal ground uplift resulting from the fault movement disturbed the sea floor enough to trigger the tsunami.

Using GPS markers, they reckoned that the 38 farms had once taken up about 135,577 square meters, not too far off from the Aztecs» estimate of 124,072 square meters.

An air blast from the event flattened the forest in the valley below, moved 2 million cubic meters of material and killed about 200 people.

At the moment, sewage from hotels and resorts is generally pumped into deep - injection wells 90 meters (about 300 feet) below ground level, sometimes straight into undersea caves.

Within the experimental plots, ragweed density ranged from no plants (a weed - free control) to 12 plants per meter (about 39 inches) of the row.