Sentences with phrase «about a yard long»

Schreiber will take the scraps that are about a yard long and put them together into packs for quilters.

Not exact matches

His paint jobs — applied in about an hour and a half using a spray nozzle attached to a jug of «100 percent nontoxic flower - based» liquid dye — cost about $ 175 each for an average Greater Long Beach area front yard (which around 500 square feet, on average).

With 93 confirmed kills — his longest at 2,500 yards — and an estimated 300 more, for Hathcock, it really wasn't about the killing.

In my mind, all week long, I thought about my commitments, list of chores, spring yard work, laundry, blogging... you name it, the «list» in my mind became overwhelming and I tried to talk myself out of the invitation I had already made.

Side note: the lovely thing about growing thyme in your yard is that it stays green all winter long, with huge growth spurts in the Spring — year - round fresh thyme.

You want to talk about a cluster fuck, it's hard enough to move the ball on that defense, but giving up yards because of presnap penalties when the Panthers already couldn't get their running game going almost guaranteed they would end up facing yet another third - and - long every time it happened.

The path Stabler took was about 200 yards long, and Hollis, watching from the sideline, said, «Damn, that boy runs like a snake.»

It was a long ball over the top, keeper came way off his line to punch, fell to me about 35 - 40 yards out and thought I'd have a bash.

According to Brown, the Bengals changed from tabby cats to tigers in about 11 seconds, or as long as it took Lemar Parrish to run 95 yards against the Buffalo Bills in the eighth game of the 1970 season.

They let the rough grow for the first 210 yards, leaving a fairway shaped like a dewdrop and about the same size — 27 yards long and 25 yards wide.

As she addresses the ball with one waggle, takes her customary one practice swing and then launches a Titleist nearly 310 yards (about 20 longer than her normal drive), you realize that this is perhaps the most efficient transfer of energy from a moving object (her clubhead) to a stationary one (the ball) that you have ever beheld.

An offside would've made it fourth - and - 5 with 21 seconds to go and Michigan needing about 40 yards to get into long field - goal range, all without star tight end Jake Butt.

A salesman asks about Young - blood's lawn, and he snarls, «It's 100 yards long!»

Like Henrichs, Theo is another of the new towering breed of full - back, but his forward gallops are less about thunderous power and more about eating up the yards with his long stride.

You should now have a long strip 30 inches by about 6 yards long.

It is essentially a 5 - yard - long piece of stretchy fabric that is about 1.5 feet wide.

In the middle of the cage, there is a wooden stick about two inches in diameter and a yard long onto which the civet releases its paste.

Unlike light waves, radio waves are long enough — about an inch to a yard for the images in this article — to leap right over bits of interstellar debris.

Motor neurons that control foot muscles are about three feet long, so neurotransmitters must be moved a yard from their origin in the cell body to the location where they can signal the muscles, Zhang says.

Perform sprints in segments no longer than a 100 yards as this is about the max that a well conditioned athlete can perform all out effort before running out of steam and slowing down.

If you're lucky, you'll find one about 50 yards long.

The material is about five to nine yards long.

Although the Lincoln Town Car is about 6 yards long and weighs a shade over 2 tons, its brand of luxury doesn't rely on the Flash Gordon styling of past decades.

The family couldn't quite handle him any longer (2 other dogs / 2 small kids / small apartment; tiny yard) and was concerned about letting him go into the wrong situation.

They can distinguish between two different sound sources 8 cm apart (shorter than the length of an iPhone) at 2 yards and 40 cm apart (about 1 foot, or a little longer than 3 iPhones) at 20 yards.

100 % Cotton Size: XS S M L XL XXL NOTE: * YOUR DOG»S CHEST should be smaller than hoodie's about * 5 cm Loosen your tape when measure your dog The length / back may short or longer than your dog is OK, But your dog's Chest and Neck should be smaller than hoodie's around 3 cm to 5 cm Recommended to buy freshman yard Measure Neck and chest: add extra Neck 2 - 3 cm, chest 4 - 5 cm for dog comfortable!

The overhang should be about two feet long, and project inward at about a 45 degree angle, so the cat can not jump over the fence, and it also makes it harder for another cat to jump into your yard.

Potential adopters who do not have fenced yards should be prepared to take their Greyhound for a minimum of four on - leash potty walks and at least one longer walk (for exercise) daily, and will need to find a safely fenced area where the dog can run off - leash about once a week (or more or less, depending on the individual dog).

As I talk to Georgie, I realize this softly spoken Rastafarian with a long beard and battered clothed is the man immortalized in the lyrics of the famous song, «No Woman, No Cry» about life in this very Trench Town yard.

A few hundred yards further south, in about 12» of water, there are two long, narrow anchors that are lying side by side as if lashed together when they fell into the water.

The whole beach is about 3 yards long and gentle slope which make it excellent for swimming.

Some notes: You can not enter the water here but if you go down to the right about 200 yards the rocks are flat and smooth, as long as the waves are not crazy.

(You can read his views in my first long article on global warming, published in 1988; it's worth noting that in 2005, Mr. Titus hedged his bets, spending $ 20,000 to elevate his summer house and yard on the Jersey Shore about five feet.)

I cut a piece of cording about 2 yards long (I wasn't sure how much I would need, and I wanted to make sure I would have enough).

For the design with thiner tubes, I cut 2 stripes of fabric about 1.5 yard long and 4 1/2 inch wide, sewed the withs together (to turn it into a 3 yard stripe), and followed the same method as explained above; except that for this design I doubled the tube (making it as one strand) to make the knot.

I was hosting bunco at my house (which is quite a project since the house has to be spotless, the yard beautiful and the food and gifts impressive), and I was serving grilled Hawaiian chicken; after about two minutes on the grill my grill ran out of gas, so I had to finish it in the oven which took a lot longer than I expected.