Sentences with phrase «at a quarter mile»

He was last at the quarter mile.

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.

And that is a raw result of 7.6 to 60 and a 16.02 at the quarter mile at 90 miles an hour.

Not exact matches

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.

The upgrade, offered at a cost of $ 10,000 to new buyers, «results in is a 10 % improvement in the 0 to 60 mph time to 2.8 secs and a quarter mile time of 10.9 secs.

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

At one of their homes they have six snowmobiles, a quarter - mile - long lighted sledding hill, basketball and volleyball courts, and snow cone and popcorn machines.

Leroy Goldstein, a dragster from Chula Vista, Calif., took top honors in the AA fuel eliminator class at the National Hot Rod Association Spring National in Odessa, Texas by covering the quarter - mile strip in 7.23 to defeat David Beebee, also of California.

C. V. Whitney's small but mighty Fisherman gave away weight to rest of field, was held off early pace by Jockey Hedley Woodhouse but took over lead with three furlongs to go and then beat off Joe Jones's determined bid to take $ 29,500 Excelsior Handicap by three - quarters of length in 1:45 for 1 1/16 th mile at Jamaica, N.Y.

«I took the scope out one night during a rainstorm and shined it at the bay,» says Magoon, «and, wow, I could see the raindrops a quarter of a mile away.

(The previous week in Detroit, Garlits had become the first man ever to exceed 200 mph at the end of a quarter - mile drag strip, but that single performance might have been criticized as a fluke and possibly another among many questionable claims to 200 - mph runs.)

It is one thing to say 200 mph in less than eight seconds, but it is quite another thing to see the dragster roaring and smoking at the starting line, look away for a moment, and then turn back to see it a quarter of a mile away.

But Madison is staring ahead at a quarter - mile of straight, smooth asphalt.

When the afternoon finally died, Garlits had beaten The Greek twice, accelerating to a speed of 200.44 mph at the end of the quarter mile in one run, and 200.89 mph in the other.

For one thing his race, known appropriately as the Stepping Stone, was only at seven furlongs (compared to the Derby's mile and a quarter), and all week long Trainer Reggie Cornell had been saying perfectly frankly that his concern was not for Silky to win but for him to run a respectable race and return to his barn in good condition.

Braulio Baeza took Stupendous to a three - length lead only to have Shoe and Buckpasser nail him at the quarter pole after a mile in a fast 1:34 [3/5].

The Woodward, run for only the 10th time last week, is an important race for us because for the first time each fall it brings together — or tries to — the best older horses and top 3 - year - olds on a weight - for - age basis at the Kentucky Derby distance of a mile and a quarter.

By 13 he was a consistent winner on full - size bikes at his home track, Ross Downs, a quarter - mile oval — or short track — near Fort Worth, a 5 1/2 - hour drive from Lubbock.

He saw an apprenticejockey named Bill Hartack who was trying to get some mounts and gave him a fewrides at the three - quarter mile track in Charlestown.

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.

The fine filly Miss Grillo won 10 stakes during 1946 - 49, including the mile - and - three - quarters San Juan Capistrano at Santa Anita.

To compare times, Zeno Colo won at Wengen in 1948 in 4:16 when the course was a quarter mile shorter; then in 1969 Schranz was doing the longer course in 3:01 with good equipment.

The manager admitting he «forfeited» the Carling Cup Quarter - Final away at Cardiff, where loyal fans had travelled over 200 miles from Blackburn to watch their side in (very little) action.

According to Creek, «One of the doctors at the game and fish lab said there was enough poison in any one of the quarters to kill people for a mile down that s ream.

In the first division of the Palm Bench Handicap at Hialeah DRUMTOP ($ 4.20), the only mare in the field, closed strongly to nip Kling Kling by three - quarters of a length, clocking 1:41 [2/5] over a mile and a sixteenth.

When the match race takes its place in racing's history books, the fundamentalists will almost inevitably give decisive weight to the circumstance mentioned by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons elsewhere in this issue: over an off track (in patches slow) Nashua and Swaps raced together at killing early speed: five - eighths of a mile in 58 seconds, three - quarters of a mile in 1:10 2/5 — two seconds faster than Swaps's time at the same point in the Kentucky Derby over a fast track.

I run on a treadmill (I switched to distance at week 3 because I'm too slow to run 5k in 20 - 30 minutes) so that I could tell myself, «another quarter mile and you can walk.

A colt named West Coast cruised to victory at the Travers Stakes, finishing the mile and a quarter in 2 minutes 1.19 seconds and returned a generous $ 14.20 to backers who had bet $ 2 on him.

Cuomo elicited a chorus of oohs and aahs during his appearance at the Buffalo Museum of Science yesterday as he unveiled a $ 6 million effort to study covering a three - quarter - mile stretch of the Kensington between Best and Ferry streets, transforming it into a tree - lined parkway.

Speed cameras have less legislative momentum, but language was included in the Assembly's budget priorities that would allow them to be placed in 290 school zones — double the existing authorization, which expires at year's end — and allow cameras within a quarter - mile of schools, not just on adjacent streets.

That a one - quarter mile study radius is insufficient (CB3 believes the impact area should extend at least to Grand Street and the Bowery).

On the quarter - mile walk between his office at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and the nerve center of his research across campus, Henry Markram gets a brisk reminder of the rapidly narrowing gap between human and machine.

(That's an angle, the team's literature explains, the width of a human hair seen at a distance of a quarter mile.)

The preserved layers in the core revealed that the site held a sediment record stretching back at least 14,000 years — and the spot, Lake Hill, was only a quarter of a mile away from the cave where Graham had made his discovery.

Runners that averaged over 2 and a quarter miles per day were at 95 % lower risk for breast cancer mortality than those that did not meet the current exercise recommendations.

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

Take for example, a person whose home is at the end of a cul - de-sac a quarter mile from an intersection.

These youngsters also suffered from asthma at significantly higher rates — those living within a quarter of a mile from a freeway had an 89 percent higher risk of asthma than kids more than a mile away.

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.

Last year Ohio legislators passed a law requiring wind turbine blades to be at least a quarter - mile from the nearest property line.

Some analysis, however, suggests the threat should not be as great this time because «energy at Mount Agung's magma chamber is not as big» and the ash column only around a quarter as high so far as the 20 km (12 miles) reached in 1963, Sutopo said.

Then take a 1 - mile progression run to finish, beginning with a 10K pace and finishing with a mile pace for at least the last quarter mile.

After a light warm - up of very leisurely walking, walk at a good pace where you don't feel too much stress — say 4 km / hr (2.5 m / h)-- and record your average heart rate every quarter mile or half kilometer a few times.

On a more positive note: The maps are huge and unique in geography, the vehicles are very much fun to use, all of them, except maybe the inflatable landing boats, and the combat roles the different classes play out is refreshing: The sniper can lay down claymores and sit back, plinking enemies from, in some maps, perhaps up to a quarter of a mile away, considering he / she is good, and has a good gaming rig, the combat medic can heal allies, and revive those who were fragged, saving them from having to respawn back at base, the support guy can lay down suppressing fire and resupply his allies with ammo, the spec ops guy can sabotage bridges, vehicles, and team assets (such as artillery and UAV trailers) with sticky C4 charges (pity the soldier who takes off in a jet only to have it explode in midflight from a hidden c4 charge stuck on it's body), The engineer repairs vehicles and lays down anti-tank mines, the anti-armour troop works on destroying said vehicles with wire - guided rockets (note that the armour guy in bf2 has his own gun ALONG with a pistol, not just a pistol like in 1942), and the assault guy....

For characters that live «a quarter mile at a time,» it's been a long, strange trip for the «Fast and Furious» franchise.

As part of the Move Across America program at Adams Elementary School in Arkansas City, Kansas, students kept track of the number of quarter - mile laps they have run or walked to see if they can reach the total number of miles between San Francisco, California, and New York City.

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.

Although our best quarter - mile time was 12 seconds flat at 129.2 mph, the Super Snake has been known to go much faster in the right conditions.

If you like to drive a quarter - mile at a time, you might like to know that one of those magazines that specialize in testing Mustang hot rods slapped a set of Nitto drag radials on this car and went down the quarter - mile at Bradenton Motorsports Park in Bradenton, Florida, in 10.66 seconds @ 137.60 mph.

At the drag strip, the F12 Berlinetta nails 60 mph in 3.6 seconds and reaches the end of the quarter - mile in 11.3 seconds at an incredible 131.7 mpAt the drag strip, the F12 Berlinetta nails 60 mph in 3.6 seconds and reaches the end of the quarter - mile in 11.3 seconds at an incredible 131.7 mpat an incredible 131.7 mph.