Sentences with phrase «about a mile up»

It's pretty well - known as this tiny mountain village that remains ultra cool even though it's relatively far inland because it's about a mile up in altitude.

I want to know stuff as banal as why in the movie LOOPER they didn't just send those people back in time about a mile up above those corn fields.

For instance, I want to know stuff as banal as why in the movie LOOPER they didn't just send those people back in time about a mile up above those corn fields.

In any case, the restaurant is moving to new digs about a mile up the road at the end of year.)

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When you consider that Saturn is 750 million miles away — about 9 times farther than Earth is to the Sun — these close ups are nothing short of miraculous.

Technically, NextUp is based in Clemmons, N.C., about 100 miles west of Raleigh, where co-owner Rick Ellis lives and picks up the mail.

Other shelters were set up in Dallas, about 250 miles (402 km) to the north, for about 8,000 people, and Austin, 160 miles (258 km) west, to take in 7,000 people.

Most people don't think much about all the time they spend in their cars driving to sales calls, meetings or even OfficeMax, but those work - related miles add up.

To achieve that, I work at a treadmill desk all day, and end up walking about eight miles each day.

For instance, one Inc. 500 CEO set up a disaster - recovery center in an outbuilding near his vacation home, about 45 miles from the high - tech company's headquarters; he already knows how to reach that site by either the main highway or the back roads.

Orion is part of NASA's follow - up program to the now - retired space shuttles that will allow astronauts to travel beyond the International Space Station, which flies about 260 miles (420 km) above Earth.

Far below, ground stations with Internet capabilities about 100 kilometres (60 miles) apart bounce signals up to the balloons.

Using a series of complex maneuvers, TESS will boost away from the Earth and, using the gravity of the Moon as a catapult, end up in an orbit that extends about 232,000 miles beyond Earth.

To circle Earth from about 250 miles up, a spacecraft must reach a blistering speed of 17,500 mph, meaning it orbits the planet once every 90 minutes.

Once it's about 80 miles up, it'll be within one orbit (about 90 minutes) of crashing.

Zuckerberg, who grew up in the sleepy town about 25 miles north of New York City, was visiting from California.

Bootstrap ecommerce: Not to get too philosophical here, but the quote about a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step sums up the approach to shipping for new ecommerce store owners.

While most of the Tesla Semi attention has been on its 500 - mile range and the speculated 1 mega watt - hour battery pack that has the combined capacity of ten Model S 100D batteries, discussion about the semi-truck's impressive quadruple drivetrain set up has remained sparse.

We know that the truck uses four independent electric motors that are derived from the Model 3, that it has an energy consumption of less than 2 kWh per mile, and that it can be charged to up to 400 miles in about half an hour.

The S model averages about 311 miles per electronic fill - up.

While he works about 25 miles away in San Marcos, staying in Ramona — where he grew up — allowed him to get a home for $ 419,000 instead of San Marcos where the median resale home price ranged from $ 514,750 to $ 940,000.

I neglected to notice a new speed limit posted due to construction, and I ended up getting pulled over about 1/2 mile from my job at the publishing company in the parking lot of a strip club.

And one of the most fascinating things about coming up with the idea is that you may now sit having accomplished it — five full continents, 100,000 miles, and 10,000 years in history.

When reading about the birth of Jesus in Scripture, many people do not realize that Bethlehem was situated within a mile or two of the Herodium, a huge palace fortress built upon a hill for King Herod, who had set himself up as the King of the Jews.

The following analogy might help: Cover the entire North American continent in dimes all the way up to the moon, a height of about 239,000 miles (In comparison, the money to pay for the U.S. federal government debt would cover one square mile less than two feet deep with dimes.).

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.

Then, «it's time for a hike» where it's only about two miles up the mountains (whew!)

You lost me when you got up and sang on Sunday morning about not judging other people until we walked a mile in their shoes — yet denied a gay couple a chance for a happy life together.

One of my favorite parts of the book is the section about the Sermon on the Mount and the «third way» of turning the other cheek, walking the extra mile, and literally giving up the clothes off our backs.

«This was a pretty good Bible Belt when we grew up,» says Adkins, who is a few years older than Perry and grew up in Rochester, about 30 miles away.

I didn't know about it until I read the paper on Sunday morning, as I don't really care when someone I don't know shoots someone else I don't know 1000 + miles from my house as it happens daily, and if I got worked up over it life would be pretty miserable.

Originally he had been appointed to educate the Elector's son, Prince John Frederick, and resided at court at Torgau, about twenty miles up the river.

«The Alden is about nurturing our guests,» says Hucks, a native Atlantan who grew up less than five miles from the restaurant, but career took him to Australia, Thailand, Spain and Denmark.

Del Bravo built up its market for its own tequila by first licensing and distributing Tequila Penasco, named for the popular beach town of Puerto Penasco, about 100 miles from the Arizona border.

I grew up in Anchor Bay, about a half mile up the road and spent so many happy days on the beach there (and working in Anchor Bay Store!).

Barry's is located about a mile - and - a-half from my house, and after a tough session it takes me so incredibly long to drag myself home and up the hill to my apartment with my dead legs.

A few years ago, a Trader Joe's market opened up about 30 miles from my home.

It's weird having to go back to running such short distances (I only run about 2 - 3 miles anyway), but that's encouraging that you're up to 9 now!

I'm suddenly questioning my running habit, slamming into a big, fat question mark after reading about you giving up your 50 + mile weeks.

I find the flavor of dried beans superior, but when you want to make it before the baby wakes up from her nap and you didn't think about cooking the beans yesterday, or if you live in the middle of nowhere and buying dried garbanzos would mean driving 32 miles — then canned will do.

I don't understand why Wenger still wants to remain so secretive about his targets, when most of the time he messes it up himself by under bidding by a country mile for the player and it's not as if the other clubs are spying on his transfer activities, like they used to, a decade ago.

Stop this bull about resting players we squaddies get up and go every day tabbing for miles on end or days I the peanuts we get paid wish someone would tell to have a rest

The ankle is bothering him, and Cairns tells him he must hoof it back to the health center — about half a mile away — to pick up some anti-inflammatory medication.

NINE: This lawn is about 0.0006 square miles... the lower 48 United States takes up about 3,100,000 square miles... so I guess the basic odds are one in 5.2 billion.

when I signed up, it was billed as a «5k» (with obstacles and such), a few weeks before the race they were calling it «about 5k», the week of the race they were saying «3 to 5 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.

One is to take a four - mile run up a trail in the hills, a way few know about, a path so narrow it begins to close in behind him as he follows its course.

Townsend shows up to a practice for the Baltimore All - Stars few minutes after 6 p.m. wearing a ski hat to ward off the chill in Elkridge, a suburb about 10 miles from the Douglass campus and right outside the borders of Baltimore County.

You say your a fan since the 70s then we've both seen other managers at the club players come and go and so do managers don't get caught up in nostalgia this is about Arsenal not Arsene and if you watch the team like you claim then you'd see we're miles off the top teams and miles off winning the premier league, we have regressed and if you think by winning the fa cup is progressing your easily pleased!

«My hometown is about 40 miles north of Atlanta and I grew up a Falcons fan,» Beasley said.