Sentences with phrase «area the size of»

But when it is, Moment Factory will have plastered the terminal's Antonio R. Villaraigosa Pavilion — consisting of a departure lounge and shopping area the size of three football fields — with video of cityscapes dissolving into ink, floating flower petals, beautiful dancers and yes, parrots, all inspired by the destinations of the disembarking flights.

But given the chance to elaborate on how far he is willing to bend in other areas the size of the deficit, whether it would exceed his previous $ 10 - billion threshold, moving up the budget timetable Trudeau would only say his government would put forward a budget that is «the right one for Canadians.»

So, let's be clear — will we ever have a mined area the size of England in Alberta?

Probability, no matter how small, can be discounted when speaking in terms of billions of years, and an area the size of the universe.

At its zenith, it housed some 150,000 Christians in an area the size of San Francisco.

A coordinated effort across an area the size of the United States would require some form of organization which we call government and that government can not operate without resources which are provided through a contribution of everyone that benefits from that organization.

«Mexico City has a population of 25 million people in a geographic area the size of Los Angeles,» Lustig notes.

Located in Bolivia's eastern lowlands, the concession covers an area the size of Rhode Island and its forests provide habitat to tapirs, giant otters, and pumas.

An area the size of Nicaragua is razed every year.

And lost and wasted food consumes about one quarter of all water used by agriculture, requires cropland area the size of China, and generates roughly 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

It also consumes about one quarter of all water used by agriculture, requires cropland area the size of China, and generates about eight per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Food that is ultimately lost or wasted consumes about one - quarter of all water used by agriculture each year, requires cropland area the size of China to be grown, and generates about eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions annually.

It requires cropland area the size of China to be grown.

«Food that is ultimately lost or wasted consumes about a quarter of all water used by agriculture, requires cropland area the size of China, and is responsible for an estimated 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Director of State Operations Howard Glaser said NYSEG has reported 2,500 wires down and 200 utility poles broken over an area the size of Connecticut.

«Food that is ultimately lost or wasted consumes about a quarter of all water used by agriculture, requires cropland area the size of China, and is responsible for an estimated 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Although Brazil rivals Europe in size, much of the leading research in South America's largest country emanates from an area the size of the United Kingdom.

After studying high - resolution satellite imagery and compiling records from local and regional government agencies, the authors concluded that all land leased for palm oil production in Indonesia added up to an area the size of Greece.

Then in 2008, an area the size of Manhattan broke off the Wilkins Ice Sheet.

The eight - week - long pulse will release enough water into the dry riverbed to fill an area the size of a Manhattan city block with a column six kilometres high.

In central British Columbia, the insects have destroyed more than 14 million hectares of trees — an area the size of Connecticut — in the single largest outbreak the world has ever seen.

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA — In the mountains east of here there are plants so rare they are only found in an area the size of a soccer field.

Their study, published today in Nature Geoscience, shows that the Southern Ocean melted 1,463 km2 of Antarctica's underwater ice between 2010 and 2016 — an area the size of Greater London.

On 30 June 1908, an asteroid struck the Tunguska region of Russia, devastating a forested area the size of a large city.

«Soil area the size of Berlin lost each year due to water erosion in the EU.»

Tree stumps are recovered from one in every ten clearcutting areas, totalling some 10,000 - 20,000 hectares annually, which is, at its highest, equivalent to an area the size of Helsinki.

So far, 1.9 million square kilometers have been mapped — an area the size of Mexico.

By the 1998 growing season, it was estimated that genetically altered crops planted in the U.S. — including tomatoes, squash, cotton, canola, corn, soybeans, rapeseed and potatoes — covered an area the size of Scotland.

Yet strip mining in the United States has already obliterated an area the size of Delaware.

Six months later, when the eruption ended, it had produced enough lava to cover an area the size of Manhattan.

In an area the size of the Wadden Sea, for instance, sediment turnover could drop by more than 130,000 liters each year.»

All told, it covered 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square kilometers) less ocean than even the year before — a loss equal to an area the size of California and Montana combined.

Imagine storing two copies of War and Peace on an area the size of a pin head.

But for some reason, the terrain beneath the trough slowly gained elevation over millions of years, and those lakes gradually gave way to a long - lived region of wetlands covering an area the size of Egypt or larger.

Katrina, a category 3 hurricane when it made landfall on August 29, 2005, ultimately damaged an area the size of the United Kingdom.

«In an area the size of Cleveland, Ohio, you could easily have eight of these units operating, taking 20 % of the waste polymers,» says Schabel.

More than 15 million hectares — an area the size of Bangladesh — is commonly stricken, and the lost rice is enough to feed 30 million people, said Pamela Ronald, a plant geneticist at the University of California, Davis.

«[Fighting terrorism requires] an awareness of what's going on in a wide area the size of a medium city.»

A patch just two feet wide by seven feet long — roughly the area of a typical dining room table — could blossom into an area the size of a football field in just one day.

The total area these fires burned increased at a rate of nearly 90,000 acres a year — an area the size of Las Vegas, according to the study.

It is like looking for a soccer ball — a person's head above water — in an area the size of the state of Connecticut.

Indeed, when you hear what it can do, the gut sounds more like a superhero than an internal organ: with a surface area the size of a basketball court, it secretes acid strong enough to burn your skin!

But nearly 120 feet below the surface, an estimated 9,000 tons of material sits spread over an area the size of about 100 football fields.

So to develop a device which can measure a fraction of an erg is really a remarkable thing, particularly when it's spread out over an area the size of a house.

Tens of thousands of particles may bombard an area the size of a small parking lot on Earth daily, while rarer high - energy particles strike less than once a year in the same area.

In the Eastern Pacific, sea - surface temperatures are about two degrees colder than normal over an area the size of the United States.

The Selenga River is the primary tributary to Lake Baikal and drains an area the size of France.

The object, with a surface area the size of Russia, is so far away — currently about 3 billion miles, more than 30 times the distance between Earth and the sun — that even the best telescopes show Pluto as an indistinct disk with light and dark patches.

In the North Pacific is an area the size of Turkey of floating plastic rubbish.

Further inland, the glaciers widen into a two - mile - thick reserve of ice covering an area the size of Texas.