Sentences with phrase «about a mile down»

If one were to take the believer's approach, one should live about a mile down an abandoned coal mine to avoid a very, very unlikely, but fatal meteor impact.

We bounce through the dark and a spatter of rain to the Happy Landings Bar, about a mile down - key.

Mahoney said she convinced Cuomo to provide $ 200 million in state money for a sports stadium on the site of the demolished Kennedy Square public housing project - about a mile down the hill from the Dome.

Make a left at the big oak tree about a mile down the road.

It was really just the proximity to my house, about a mile down the street can't beat that.

There is now a McDonalds and a Kmart - but when I was growing up, you had to ride your bike about a mile down a very dark country road thick with night insects stinging your face to even find a plugged - in Coke machine where you could buy a vended soda for thirty - five cents.

The 1.8 - mile, well - groomed trail to Tennessee Cove begins at the trailhead parking lot, about a mile down Tennessee Valley Road.

Located just about a mile down the beach, also directly on Grace Bay Beach, sits Ocean Club West.

They camped about a mile down from the Spaniards.

Sandy Lane Beach is a beautiful walk or quick car ride away, while the Sandy Lane Golf and Country Club — the top golf club on the island — is about a mile down the road.

In August, the company revealed that it would build driverless shuttles to tootle between Apple Park, the company's vast «spaceship» campus that opened just recently, and 1 Infinite Loop, Apple's longstanding head office situated about a mile down the road.

To get to where the restaurant, library, summer farmers market and other shopping are is about a mile down the road.

Not exact matches

New images beamed down from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the impact scars from the two tungsten counter-weights and the cruise stage, which broke apart and landed about 50 miles from where Curiosity hunkered down at its landing site, later named Bradbury Landing, in Gale Crater on Aug. 5.

Further, as of now, about one in 20 rocket launches fails, or more precisely, explodes in a massive fireball that rains debris down for miles around.

Fifty minutes later, I've walked 1.2 miles, without even thinking about it — until I get an email from an acquaintance down the hall with the subject «Got ta ask»: «Are you going to be working at a treadmill desk all week?

I recently switched jobs so I travel about 3000 miles a month in milage and purchased a new car that I could pay down but its 0 % financing for 60 months so I plan to finance all 35k of that which gives my a total of 60k outstanding.

Then it was suggested that the man ought not to die too quickly, and he was let down to the ground while a party went to Dexter, about two miles distant, to procure coal oil.

I remember driving down one road (I can not remember which one) and it seems that for about a mile or two, there was a mega church on ever corner.

I'm not sure what would happen if the sun stopped rotating but if the Earth's rotation stopped in order make the sun appear to stop in the sky, or delay «going down about a full day,» then the momentum of everything not solidly attached to the earth would carry it eastward at nearly 1000 miles per hour, e.g. people, animals, many buildings, cars, all open water, etc..

Only an outbuilding on the property of Miracle Baptist Church on Murfreesboro Road in LaVergne, about 30 miles southeast of Nashville, was scorched by flames, thanks, in part, to a man who was down - on - his - luck and reached out to the church for help just days earlier.

I could talk to you about watching portions sizes, counting calories, running 4 miles after dinner, or drinking a gallon of water and eating 7 1/2 carrot curls before you sit down for the Thanksgiving meal, but let me read your mind: It's Thanksgiving — get real.

All of my specially curated food photography props, bowls, and spoons, were about 1,200 miles away safely wrapped and snuggled inside storage boxes waiting to be sent down.

On weekdays, it's all about getting a nutritious breakfast down my gullet in between running a few miles and responding to emails.

Three miles down the road from the high school is another Marysville big employer, the Ohio Reformatory for Women prison, opened in 1916 and home to about 2,000 women, including Donna Roberts, the only women on Ohio's death row for having her husband murdered in 2001.

It is about five miles down, and it takes us more than an hour and a half.

With little more than a quarter mile remaining in the $ 82,575 Remsen stakes last Saturday, a 2 - year - old named Royal Ski was in about as much trouble as a horse can get himself into without actually falling down.

So true about Michael Oliver being the best ref by a mile; even when I disagree with him on something I always feel he is either completely justified in his decision or at least it was a very 50/50 decision that really comes down to an unbiased interpretation.

It was the first Atlanta United game for his grandfather, who drove down about 80 miles from Ellijay, Georgia.

I have always been more of a turtle pace person, but in the last year, my per mile pace has gone down about 1 minute so I'm curious to see how this shoe will respond!

Rosi, for instance, testified that he told a woman in labor to crouch on all fours in the back seat of her car while a family member drove her 75 miles an hour down the Edens Expressway from her Mundelein home to Weiss Memorial Hospital on Chicago's North Side, about an hour away.

Just after they're born, in the middle of the night, baby turtles walk down the beach, the equivalent of about a mile for their little legs, get in an ocean which is full of things that eat turtles, and don't come home for a year.

I am so thankful that I have relocated to a small farm in the midwest, where next year I will be raising my own meat chickens and won't have to worry about where my chicken meat is processed... it will be «processed» by the Amish farmers a few miles down the road.

This is why I suspect the recent announcements about a return to weekly bin collections, raising the speed limit on the motorways to 80 miles an hour and the renewed emphasis on «right to buy» will go down well.

The plane went down at N'sele, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the source said.

We all want to live in a cow pasture next door (about 25 miles from next door actually) to those run down falling apart heaps that pass for «towns» outside of the cities upstate.

Later that afternoon, about 30 miles down the road in Ticonderoga, United Steelworkers District 4 Staff Representative Rick Saure announced their endorsement of Democratic challenger Mike Derrick.

Silver didn't knock down the suspicion that he was about making as much money as possible a few years ago when he began defending his bizarre practice of flying on the state's dime from New York City to Albany via Washington, DC, or some other distant spot so he could pick up a few extra frequent flier miles for his personal use.

To get a glimpse of that dusty, thirsty future, all one needs to do is head down the Colorado River to where it ends about fifty miles south of the US border.

There is enough turnover so that rock is constantly cycling through; pieces of crust have probably reached all the way down to the bottom of the mantle, about 1,700 miles below the surface.

On a plane chartered by the Forest Service, I fly about 65 miles down the 100 - mile length of the Middle Fork.

Each flicker, called a granule, is a column of gas about 600 miles wide, which vibrates up and down about once every five minutes.

Developed by Carnegie Mellon roboticist Hagen Schempf, the Explorer - II features a remote - controlled fish - eye camera that allows above - ground operators to see what the machine does; drive - train motors that give operators unprecedented control over the pig's direction (most pigs still move passively according to natural gas flow); and a lightweight electromagnetic coil that detects changes in magnetized pipe walls without weighing the robot down, enabling it to inspect about two miles of pipe a day.

The Odyssey IV can do all this to about 6,000 meters down, some three and three - quarter miles below the surface which means that this machine is well suited to its main goal the study of deep sea coral.

Tropomi can get its resolution down to about a square mile on Earth — a area that lets it see the emissions from a specific city.

One of the state's largest spills to date occurred in 2014, when an underground pipeline leak caused approximately 1 million gallons of brine to flow down a ravine and into Bear Den Bay, about a quarter mile upstream from a drinking water intake on Lake Sakakawea.

Using its filter, the team was able to create maps that revealed details about the subsurface of Long Beach down to a depth of more than half a mile (1.1.

When Stern and the Pluto Underground were sitting down to dinner in 1989, the planet had reached its near point to the sun at about 2.7 billion miles and had begun receding toward the far end of its orbit, about 4.5 billion miles out.

Based on a maximum tolerable temperature of about 250 degrees, that would meanmicrobes could exist more than three miles down.

The thing about the mud that marine geologist and geochemist Erwin Suess hoisted from the bottom of the Pacific in 1996, half a mile down and 60 miles off Newport, Oregon, was that it was seething — cold, but seething.

Far below your feet — about 3,219 miles down — is Earth's other moon.