Sentences with phrase «about a quarter mile»

Observations suggest it's about a quarter mile long.

I was stuck about a quarter mile back from that, watching the ominous black smoke darken the snowy sky.

Love, never one to bang them home, sent hisball toward the hole at about a quarter mile an hour.

Among the four Zip Codes in the region with the highest asthma rates, only one was near the Peace Bridge about a quarter mile away and not downwind of the bridge.

The community is about a quarter mile from the Torne Valley Vineyard mansion, which is just across Torne Valley Rd. from the county's garbage dump in Hillburn.

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.

To develop strength, endurance, and balance, Toorock has his advanced trainees do crawling pushups — lowering the chest to the ground from the all - fours position, then crawling forward one step — all the way around the block, about a quarter mile.

And the distance is a cinch to measure — typically about a quarter mile around.

Overshot the distance and finished about a quarter mile from home, so I shut everything off and just jogged real slow the rest of the way to cool down.

Olympia Luxe is a gorgeous luxury villa in Hollywood, about a quarter mile from Sunset Strip.

The beach itself is great to walk on... a nice sandy strip for about a quarter mile, but difficult for swimming and paddle boarding given the rocky surface below the water line.

On New Year's Day 1937, during the Great Depression, the gambling ship SS Monte Carlo, known for «drinks, dice, and dolls», was shipwrecked on the beach about a quarter mile south of the Hotel del Coronado.

The cave has over 2,200 feet (670 m) of passage and is about a quarter mile (400 m) long.

Not exact matches

,» he mused, before continuing, «we work on it, we work on it, and nope... The real problem is that it's so power - inefficient it would get about a quarter of a mile per gallon.

In 2015, vehicle - miles traveled increased about 3.5 percent over 2014 — the greatest growth in a quarter - century.

The drift came from a soybean farm that is southwest of his farm about one - quarter of a mile away.

The only other place that might be more packed is called The Strip: a quarter - mile stretch of about seven bars.

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.

So for a month I pulled Alan - a-Dalein workouts; I never let him go better than 2:11 for a mile and a quarter, andall the time I galloped The Rival at about 2:09.

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.

The head - on crash happened shortly after 8 a.m. on Hicks Road about one - quarter mile north of Lake Cook Road, according to a press release from the Long Grove Fire Protection District.

The 25 - acre parcel, about one - quarter mile west of 96th Avenue just north of 167th Street, was annexed by Orland Hills Nov. 15.

The state Office of General Services next month will auction a 4.49 - acre state - owned piece of land in Chautauqua County, located about a quarter - mile from Lake Erie.

«Some large bergs,» to quote the «Carmania's» captain, were «about 400 feet long and from one - quarter to one - half a mile in width.»

Climate velocity was first established in 2009 in a study estimating that species would have to move about a quarter - mile a year on average over the next 85 years.

Then Brown spotted UB313, which is about 1,700 miles wide, or about one - quarter bigger than Pluto.

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.

Between here and the moon, about a quarter - million miles away, there's virtually nothing — just stray hydrogen, helium and the odd dust particle.

I've been working now there for quarter of a century and Northern Tibet now has a block of countryside that's about 250,000 square miles — that's about the size of Texas — which has a legal protection.

These passages allowed the fire to spread to the coal seam underneath the town and expand along four fronts, eventually affecting a surface area about two miles long and three - quarters of a mile wide.

The next time that asteroid 2015 TB145 will be in Earth's neighborhood will be in September 2018, when it will make a distant pass at about 24 million miles (38 million kilometers), or about a quarter the distance between Earth and Sun.

To date, the rover has covered about a quarter - mile (416 meters) on Mars.

About a quarter of the average annual ice loss came from glaciers and ice caps outside of Greenland and Antarctica (roughly 148 billion tons, or 39 cubic miles).

Indeed, Stars B and C are separated by only some 0.008 AU, around three quarters of a million miles (more than one million km) or about three times the distance between the Earth and its Moon.

It's thought to be about a quarter - mile long, and about 10 times longer than it is wide.

Assistant editor Sam Smith noted that he burned through about three - quarters of a tank of fuel during one 140 - mile stretch at highway speeds while schlepping his 3500 - pound trailer.

The 2017 Kia Optima Plug - in Hybrid Electric Vehicle is scheduled to arrive in U.S. dealerships about the middle of the third - quarter of 2016, with a 9.8 killowatt - hour electric battery pack delivering about six - times the current car's energy output and a pure - electric range of 27 miles.

The 5566 - lb GL450 went around the two - mile course in two minutes and thirty - six seconds, faster than about three - quarters of its competitors.

The heavy police presence prevents us from submitting to spectators» calls to race, but our separate closed - course testing confirms that the 412 - hp «Stang owns the 332 - hp Nissan by about a second both in the 0 - to -60-mph sprint and through the quarter mile.

Never mind the fact that we'll never even approach the 204 - mph terminal velocity or the fact that this car's 10.6 - second quarter - mile run is a far more impressive stat, strangers mostly only ask about top speed.

With Chrysler figuring the Nitro's curb weight at 4115 pounds (or about as much as a Liberty with Kate Moss behind the wheel), the company estimates the 0 - to -60-mph sprint at 9.6 seconds, the quarter - mile in 16.9 seconds, and a top speed of 108 mph, figures that are respectable in this class but unlikely to win the former Calvin Klein supermodel any races.

«This is what you get, when you take everything great about the Durango and combine it with the performance of the Charger SRT: a 12 - second quarter mile, 8,700 - lb.

My brother's»85 Toyota Camry with ~ 190k miles started making a funny rattling sound and lost about a quarter of its power.

Mated to a five - speed gearbox and a Torsen limited - slip differential, the combination translated into 0 - 60 mph times around 5 seconds and a quarter mile in about 14 seconds.

About 50,000 years ago, a 150 - foot meteor slammed into the Arizona desert at more than 26,000 mph, leaving a three - quarter - mile - wide crater deep enough to contain the Washington Monument.

And seeing how we turned a quarter - mile in about 12 seconds in the 580 - hp, supercharged Camaro ZL1, we'd say it did.

Seeing how the original 1969 Camaro ZL1 would go down a quarter - mile drag strip in about 13 seconds on stock tires — at a time when most competitors wouldn't get close to that even on slicks — the new - age ZL1 needed to perform.

One, drag racing isn't all about quarter - mile times.

Ford is claiming 0 - 60 in 3.7 seconds and the quarter mile in 11.7 at 135 mph, but what about the Nürburgring?

According to Chevrolet, the drop - top ZR1 sprints from 0 to 60 mph (96 km / h) in under 3 seconds and can clear the quarter mile «in the high 10 - second range» — we're talking about models that marry the V8 with the eight - speed automatic gearbox.