Sentences with phrase «along at a mile»

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FORT BLISS, Texas — Three public affairs officers and I found the command center shown above about a mile from one of many dirt roads along the training grounds at Fort Bliss.

Hike along 36 miles of trails at the Phoenix Sonoran Preserve, or visit Tonto National Forest to see clusters of flowers among the cacti.

Leaf peers are both appreciated, for bringing in the big tourist dollars, and despised for chugging along the roads, rubbernecking, at five miles per hour.

Flanked by legislative leaders and dozens of lawmakers, Sandoval presented a Nevada license plate with «TESLA» to Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla's vice president for business development who helped pick the site at an industrial park along Interstate 80 about 15 miles east of Sparks.

Aerial video captured seas of people — in front of Trump International Hotel in New York; in a central square in Tokyo; along the streets of Boston; at a rally in downtown Fort Worth, Tex.; and crammed into a park less than a mile from Stoneman Douglas High.

The Saudis are 50 miles from Iran and 25 miles from Israel at the nearest points, and they don't get along with either one.

Here, a visit is made to the iconic blowholes, which can be found along the rocky, terraced coastline at Houma, approximately 9.3 miles (about 15 kilometres) from Nuku'alofa.

Our place in the universe, including all our human history all along, as is seen from space starting at 600,000 miles away, and down to a flyby proximity, a tiny speck.

Tens of thousands of Catholics in Poland gathered at locations along the country's 2,000 - mile border on Saturday to pray for the salvation of the country and the rest of the world.

Finally, NASA knew the importance of education along with ballyhoo, and a huge Space Center was erected at Cape Kennedy (just a few miles from Disney World) where families could see a super-wide-screen movie celebrating the technological marvels of the space program, tour actual rockets and historic space capsules, and on occasion even see a blast - off of one of the many space launches.

Tens of thousands of Catholics in Poland gathered at locations along the country's 2,000 - mile border... More

Sometimes you catch sight of a turn leading off into the distance, a dirt track or a county road at right angles to the highway you're on, as you drive along those straight, miles - long lines you find only in the West.

The rallying call follows Poland holding a similar event called Rosary at the Borders last year where tens of thousands of Catholics gathered at locations along the country's 2,000 - mile border to pray for the salvation of the country.

«This includes a culinary innovation center at our headquarters in Aurora, along with our main R&D facility, which is about a mile away.

The B train stop at 167th St. / Grand Concourse is the first along this century - old four - mile thoroughfare, which was originally modeled after Paris» Champs - Elysées.

The Napa Valley Wine Train travels 36 miles round trip from St. Helena, stopping at vineyards along the way, and allowing guests the chance to stay aboard a luxury train that evokes the feeling of 1900s rail travel.

«Throughout this year's exhibition, G - scale locomotives hum along almost a half - mile of track alongside replicas of New York landmarks, artistically crafted of natural materials such as bark, twigs, stems, fruits, seeds and pine cones by designer Paul Busse's team at Applied Imagination,» the Garden says.

Tara Jensen hosts a monthly pizza night, and every time she's sure that no one will come, and every time, nearly 100 people show up, finding their way to the town of Marshall, North Carolina, then heading six miles northwest on Route 70 along the French Broad River, winding around the knoll called Walnut, and stopping at the dirt driveway leading to her compound, which consists of an algae - covered pond, a shack in the woods, a brick oven, and two pitched - roof houses, one of which is a bakery that goes by the name of Smoke Signals.

About three miles east I stop again at a small deserted beach and walk along under walls marked «private» that ring the water around the sweeping half - mile curve that leads to the rocky point where I am headed.

If Ross occasionally plays loose with the facts, he remains true to the core of the story, and many of the racetrack scenes evoke more sharply than ever before on film a sense of the surpassing grace and power of the running horse, the sound of rolling thunder of the hooves and a sense of the precarious, perilous nature of the jockeys» existence as they bound along hell - fired at 40 miles an hour, monkeys on a stick, wind - sheared and often screaming at each other in the din.

The Bull is next scheduled to face Go for Gin along with older horses in the 1 «Äö √ Ñ √ ∂ «àö √ ± «àö ¬ µ - mile Woodward at Belmont Park on Sept. 17.

Abercrombie began seeing a therapist, working harder than usual at the family business and running mile after mile along the streets of River Oaks.

The Vickers plant, three miles of dreary sheds along the inky Tyne, was working a light shift Saturday morning, and the ancient Sandgate market, where Newcastle residents take their old clothes for resale, was open for business at dawn.

Sixty miles into the trip it started to snow, forcing the driver to crawl along at 20 mph.

Cross off a national park and summer fun all at the same time with a visit to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, which runs along 15 miles of the southern shore of Lake Michigan, just an hour from Chicago.

Every year, over 100 citizen scientists assist Stellwagen sanctuary and Mass Audubon staff in conducting surveys at least six times year - round along a 63 nautical mile - long transect located within the Stellwagen Sanctuary.

Mass Audubon's Coastal Waterbird Program protected threatened coastal birds through management and education at 183 sites along 140 miles of the Massachusetts coastline in 2014.

Length: 1 mile, roundtrip Details: This trail begins at the Visitor Center butterfly garden and continues along portions of the Holdredge and Frog Pond Trails.

The cause of the disturbance at Monday night's meeting of the Elmhurst Park District Board was the pile of blueprints for a 1.6 - mile asphalt bicycle and hiking trail that would meander along Salt Creek.

Edgar is expected to attend the ceremony at 11 a.m. Sunday and ride one of several donated bicycles along the new 1.25 - mile DuPage River Greenway Bike Path.

The state's proposed expressway would start at its present terminus at Lake - Cook Road near Buffalo Grove and run north through central Lake County to a point just south of Grayslake, then east along Illinois Highway 120 to the Tri-State Tollway near Waukegan, a distance of about 19 miles.

«It's focused on looking at the vulnerabilities and threats along the 5,200 mile Great Lakes coast and looking at ways that we can address those threats through a series of projects,» David Schulenberg, Chief of the Planning Branch for the Corps» Buffalo district, said.

Bicyclists taking part in the 400 - mile cross-state Cycle the Erie Canal trip made their way along Broadway yesterday to the finish line at the Albany Visitors Center.

«So I think the governor is an elected official and I think he looked at a map and realized that there was no casino for hundreds of miles along the Pennsylvania border on Route 17 and to his credit basically asked them reopen it because I think no governor can make a promise and not keep it,» said Gural.

Further west, along the lake, workers are trying to save a 17 mile - long sand dune at Sandy Island Beach State Park in Pulaski.

Cuomo also announced that the $ 387 million double - track project, expected to increase capacity along 12.6 miles between Farmingdale and Ronkonkoma, will be completed next summer — months ahead of the MTA's planned schedule at the end of 2018.

«But to have a concert that you may not even be aware is happening be the reason why you can't be hauling along at 70 miles per hour going home, probably poses an unacceptable risk.»

Main Street Revitalization Initiative: Buffalo Billion Phase II proposes a transformative investment along 10 miles of Buffalo's central spine, Main Street, from the Outer Harbor, Inner Harbor and medical campus to the University at Buffalo's North Campus.

A few hours and several miles of snowshoeing later, I was hard at work in the diminishing February twilight, setting up lines of strobes and high - speed cameras along gaps in the tree canopy that framed a forest lake at the edge of Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness.

In the figure, measurements of the strength of mantle flow are shown along with the colored map of seismic wave speed at 195 kilometers (121 miles) beneath the Earth's surface, under the North American tectonic plate.

They simulated earthquakes with magnitudes between 9.0 and 9.6 originating at different locations along the Aleutian - Alaska subduction zone, a 3,400 - kilometer (2,113 - mile) long ocean trench stretching along the southern coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands where the Pacific tectonic plate is slipping under the North American plate.

Those high - altitude winds zip along at more than 300 miles per hour and generate electrical currents that surround the Earth.

The shield is designed to keep the probe's scientific instruments at a comfortable average of 86 °F and to constantly adjust its orientation while the spacecraft races along at up to 450,000 miles per hour.

From Dawn to Dusk: When you're not stargazing, try your luck at wildlife watching (including caribou) along more than 600 miles of hiking trails at the park.

To mimic the conditions of the early universe, researchers sent electrically charged gold atoms racing along the collider's 2.4 - mile - long tunnel at near light speed, producing a fireball 150,000 times as hot as the center of the sun.

Swirling winds blustering at more than 1,000 miles per hour, along with heat rising from the planetary interior, create the gold and yellow atmospheric bands.

A storm trundling along at 30 miles per hour is no problem, as long as you can see it.

A 360 - degree panorama of Titan, taken five miles up, shows fuzzy streaks — possibly methane fog — along the border between the lowlands and lighter highlands at left.

Even at a distance of six miles, sailors could see patches of lava steaming along the mountainside.

The AUV and ROV dives showed that the new field extends for at least 400 meters (one quarter mile) along this fault.