Sentences with phrase «as miles of»

One the other hand, the ocean option gives you the feeling of freedom as miles of water stretches before you.

Enjoy full use of our lodge facilities, as well as miles of pristine hiking trails in our stunning mountain setting.

Water sports are available as well as miles of pristine shoreline to enjoy.

All this combined with outstanding shopping opportunities as well as miles of sandy white beaches is a sure bet that a visit to San Carlos will be a trip that will be talked about for years.

Modern development has claimed much of the trail, supplanting it with shopping centers and housing development, as well as miles of interstate.

According to Andres Lopez, professor of engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, twice as many miles of new railways are being planned as miles of motorway.

«It's above 5,000 feet, and there was an indoor track as well as miles of trails,» says Shorter.

Commercial fishing is destroying biodiversity as miles of nets sweep up the fish in their path, taking other marine life and coral - based habitats with them.

Not exact matches

As well as disputes over stretches of a 3,500 km (2,200 miles) border, they are bumping up against each other in the Indian Ocean and squabbling over Xi's signature Belt and Road infrastructure initiativAs well as disputes over stretches of a 3,500 km (2,200 miles) border, they are bumping up against each other in the Indian Ocean and squabbling over Xi's signature Belt and Road infrastructure initiativas disputes over stretches of a 3,500 km (2,200 miles) border, they are bumping up against each other in the Indian Ocean and squabbling over Xi's signature Belt and Road infrastructure initiative.

Twenty miles an hour over the speed limit qualified as reckless driving, so I figured 40 miles an hour over was a one - way ticket to the magistrate's office, a lost license, and months of hassling friends for rides to work.

«Outsourcing to a trucking firm would allow UPS to enter into the final - mile business without committing its own capital up front to expand its fleet or acquire end - of - line, final - mile infrastructure such as terminals,» R.W. Baird analyst Ben Hartford said.

Hurricane Sandy paralyzed businesses throughout some of the most densely populated places in the country as the center of the 500 - mile - wide storm barreled ashore in the mid-Atlantic states.

After graduating with a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, she spent a year as Operations Manager aboard the record - breaking biofueled powerboat Earthrace, where she traveled 25,000 miles, visited 120 cities, and ran a campaign to promote the use of alternative fuels.

Hubble was about 400 - 500 million miles away from Jupiter at the time, and it was taking pictures of Europa's backlit silhouette as it moved across the gas giant's surface:

This popular vacation spot has beaches and plenty of palm trees, as well as 185 miles of waterways and canals (earning it the nickname «Venice of America»).

As it is now, most of the major trucking and logistics firms in this final - mile bulky goods business hire regional contract - carriers and there are hundreds nationwide to haul products from warehouses to living rooms across the country.

These Jack - of - all - trades shoes are light enough for speedwork, cushioned for long runs, and have a smooth ride that doesn't fade even as you pile on the miles.

Check out the rest of U.S. News & World Report's top 15 Best Cheap Summer Vacations, which includes Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (60 miles of free, sandy beaches); Moab, Utah (think free, beautiful hiking trails); Annapolis, Maryland (Airbnb rooms are as low as $ 55 per night); Bar Harbor, Maine (access to Acadia National Park is just $ 12); and Surfside Beach, South Carolina (resort condos are as low as $ 120 a night).

Meanwhile, the long - range surface - to - air missiles designated as HQ - 9B, have an expected range of targeting aircraft, drones and cruise missiles within 160 nautical miles.

A detonation several miles from a coastline would deposit only about 1 % of its energy as waves hitting the shore.

«When a thermonuclear weapon is surrounded with with ordinary cobalt (cobalt - 59) metal,» as Russia's Status 6 is rumored to be, «the fast neutrons escaping the explosion will instantly transmute it into radioactive cobalt - 60, which would vaporize, condense, and then fall back to earth tens, hundreds, or thousands of miles from the site of the explosion.»

Small employers often hire family members, neighbors, and friends, and requiring these employers to then jump through the same hoops as a multinational corporation whose CEO resides 1,000 miles away from the majority of her workers is counterintuitive and wildly inefficient.

The land - based anti-ship cruise missiles, designated as YJ - 12B, allow China to strike surface vessels within 295 nautical miles of the reefs.

Various sources quote the U.S. LGM - 30 as having an approximate strike range of nearly 8,000 miles.

As part of United's crisis management, the airline said late Wednesday that all passengers on Sunday's United Express Flight 3411 are getting reimbursement equal to the cost of their tickets, which can be taken in cash, travel credits, or miles.

Industrial design is a competitive business, especially when you locate yourself in downtown Palo Alto, where office space goes for $ 4 a square foot per month (as opposed to half that in an industrial park three miles outside of town).

His wallet, for example, has seen him through two decades; his briefcase (burgundy - colored, of course) has «as many scratches as I have miles.»

Air freighting of green beans from Kenya into the UK was seen as unsustainable because of air miles but it also supports up to 1.5 m people and livelihoods in some of the poorest regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Capable of moving up to 620 miles per hour — 40 miles per hour faster than the average commercial jet — Air Force One has the ability to refuel midair, so the president can travel as far as necessary without the need to touch down on dry land.

And of course we can source more food locally and seasonally as well as considering preserved options if we want to cut down on air miles.

An English - speaking archipelago that begins about 50 miles off the south coast of Florida, the Bahamas attracts spring breakers of all ages; college students often pick it because it is easy to reach and has plenty of beach party staples, such as Senor Frogs.

The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun - dials and brick walks and burning gardens — finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.

As a guide, or just a rider who has lots of miles under their belt, you have your head up a lot more.

Estimates range from as low as $ 8 billion to as much as $ 67 billion or more, depending on whom you ask and the number of miles of wall that get built.

But as someone who has traveled more than two million miles over the course of my career, I have come up with some overlooked travel etiquette tips that everyone can benefit from.

Backup human drivers in Uber's self - driving cars had to take over about once every mile as of March 8, according to documents obtained by Recode (Uber doesn't make its data publicly available).

The BFR's spaceship could fly more than 4.6 miles per second, according to SpaceX — over 12 times as fast as the supersonic Concorde jets of yesteryear.

Tokyo clocked the missile as traveling about 500 miles and reaching a height of 1,240 miles during its half - hour flight.

These days, as the director of the Potomac Highlands Guild's anti-stigma program, Masih (pronounced «Ma - SEE») clocks a lot of miles, leading trainings and speaking at town halls about addiction.

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What became known as the «longest traffic jam ever» — a nearly two - week, 60 - plus mile gridlock — took place a few years ago, not in a huge Western metropolis, but in the northern China province of Hebei.

The region features roughly the same number of luxury hotels and wineries as Napa County but spread out over an area three times as big with redwoods and a 55 - mile coastline.

«With ride - sharing, car - sharing, and even bike - sharing we see buyers not nearly as needing of being half a mile to a metro.»

Saudi Arabia has unveiled an enormous new tourism project spanning more than 100 miles of its Red Sea coastline as part of continued efforts to boost the economy and international standing of the Middle Eastern Kingdom.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

The hiring of a schizophrenic man as the interpreter for Nelson Mandela's memorial service is a bold reminder that employers need to go the extra mile when screening job candidates.

That single photo will capture a similar level of detail as the JunoCam image below, which is of Jupiter's wandering Little Red Spot as seen from about 9,000 miles away.

It continues, «As more real - world miles accumulate and the software logic accounts for increasingly rare events, the probability of injury will keep decreasing.

Your mind could have drifted thousands of miles away, but as long as your body showed up to work at Dallas - based tax firm Ryan, that was all that mattered.

His boyfriend, identified in surviving documents only as «S.,» watched the man he loved go off to serve in a war that he did not fully endorse, only to die alone and in pain as S. sat helplessly by hundreds of miles away.