Sentences with phrase «at least a mile from»

Commercial seed producers avoid cross-pollination by isolating varieties and planting them at least a mile from each other, which is farther than the average bee flies.

2 In 500 B.C. Athens created the first municipal dump, requiring trash to be disposed of at least a mile from city walls.

The District provides yellow bus service grades K - 5 for all students who live at least a mile from their «assigned school.»

Not exact matches

In November 2012, Hyundai and Kia conceded they overstated fuel economy by at least a mile per gallon on vehicles after the EPA found errors for 13 Hyundai and Kia models from the 2011 to 2013 model years.

That's down three points from 2015, when 56 percent of respondents reported not having taken a vacation in a year and 41 percent admitted to having not been on a leisure trip of at least a week to a place 100 miles or more from home in more than two years.

Barrel bombs filled with chlorine gas were also reportedly dropped on Sunday in the town of Saraqeb, a few miles from Maasran, which injured at least nine people.

For those reasons, the cornerstone of any successful disaster - recovery — or, in more positive parlance, business - continuity — plan is at least one offsite data center anywhere from a few miles to a few states away.

Cruz, 18, pleaded no contest in exchange for a six - month probation term accompanied by conditions that include staying off drugs or alcohol, staying at least a mile away from the Parkland high school he once attended, and staying away from firearms.

(If you had no workplace, the new job must be at least 50 miles from your old home.)

Your new workplace must be at least 50 miles farther away from your old home compared with the distance between your old job and old dwelling.

Your new job site must be at least 50 miles further away from your old home than your old job was, though, and you may not have moved earlier than a year before starting to work in the new location.

I will make sure to stay at least 50 miles away from him.

In contrast, such politically neutral refugee aid groups as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees purposely located their Honduran relief camps at least 33 miles from the border to avoid involvement with the hostilities.

Some 90 miles from home, we passed all manner of vehicles, including at least a dozen with Texas plates on them.

In the first place, the Strait of Gibraltar separates the Iberian Peninsula and north Africa by only a few miles, so it is a logical assumption that chiles would filter southward from Cadiz to Tangier by at least the early 1500s.

Having misplotted Checkpoint 14, we spent our second night trudging vainly through Caribou Valley, a boggy, godforsaken concavity strewn with moose pies and at least five miles, it turned out, from where we belonged.

Tiger Woods was presumably at least a couple hundred miles from TPC Sawgrass when Players Championship contender Justin Rose was assessed and then awarded two shots for a penalty that a few hours later the PGA Tour decided was not a penalty after all.

Flatlanders race March 23 will be limited to skiers living below 3,000 feet, at least 200 miles from a lift and who have skied less than 21 days a year.

Many clubs now demand that carters sign a form releasing the club from all liability, and in at least one case where these forms have been broadly and carelessly drawn up, the carters out playing golf could be held legally liable for almost any catastrophe that happened to anyone within five miles of the clubhouse.

Everything we eat or otherwise consume has to be trucked in from at least one - hundred miles away.

Both my son and daughter are at least 3 states and 1,000 miles from home.

The state determined that an area encompassing just over 1 million acres can accommodate wind turbines at least 21 miles from land to «ensure that, for the vast majority of the time, turbines would have no discernible or visible impact from the casual viewer on the shore.»

A possible solution could be found in providing travel cards to rural unemployed (allowing travel for free or at a reduced rate), who live at least 2 miles from the nearest major centre of employment — valid for use 1 month after finding permanent work.

Among the lawmakers eligible for daily expense payments for living at least 50 miles away from the Capitol, the Assembly Energy Committee chairman from Kingston was a relative bargain.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx said Buffalo should consider resurrecting at least a portion of the grand, tree - lined boulevard that once stretched 3 miles from Delaware Park to Martin Luther King Jr..

Andrew Cuomo's public - relations staffers have denied putting words in praise of the governor in the mouths of local officials, but to those who read more than one newspaper from at least 50 miles away it sure looks like it.

But people in the United States who were popping pills were at least 5,000 miles away from the Japanese reactors.

Boosting average fuel efficiency in 50 percent of cars from 20.8 miles per gallon to 30.7 mpg — and there are at least 26 vehicles available today that would do that, ranging from compact cars to sport utility vehicles — would save roughly 30 million metric tons.

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.

So, too, areas in which people of color make up at least 25 percent of the total population average nearly five times as many pounds of chemical emissions from industrial facilities per square mile, compared with communities where less than 5 percent of the population are people of color.

Criticisms tended to come from scientists working in the same fields, but separated by at least 150 miles geographically, according to the study published on 26 October in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

From the speed of the pellet, he calculated the fly was going at least 90 miles per hour.

What's more, detailed studies of the Southeast Asian coastline of 50,000 years ago showed that an 800 - mile - long stretch of islands and at least eight ocean straits separated the island continent from the Asian mainland.

Results reveal that all states except North Dakota and Wyoming contain a primary professional address for at least one gynecologic oncologist, though all states but three have at least one county further than 50 miles from the closest specialty care center.

While most of these «low access» counties are located in the Mountain - West and Midwest regions, the findings of a recent study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania also reveal that 47 states have at least one county located more than 50 miles from the nearest gynecologic oncologist.

The most recent such study, published in Environmental Science & Technology, finds that at least 6,900 oil and gas wells in the U.S. were fracked less than a mile (5,280 feet) from the surface, and at least 2,600 wells were fracked at depths shallower than 3,000 feet, some as shallow as 100 feet.

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

Or it may be influenced by a tidal tug from the star's red dwarf binary companion (HR 4796B), located at least 54 billion miles from the primary star.

-- Previous research has shown the Yellowstone hotspot plume rises from a depth of at least 440 miles in Earth's mantle.

«There were many others half this size, and they all must have traveled at least ninety miles from their parent rock.»

Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said people should stay at least 3.7 miles from the volcano.

They discovered a planet at least 80 percent the mass of Saturn orbiting 3.8 million miles from the star HD46375, 109 light - years away in the constellation Monoceros, and a planet 70 percent the mass of Saturn orbiting 32.5 million miles around the star 79 Ceti (also known as HD16141), located 117 light - years away in the constellation Cetus.

I swear I could walk for miles in these shoes and will wear them forever or at least until they fall apart from over wearing them!

We can therefore recognise, at least in part, the pain and suffering endured by the Griswolds in the name of «fun» as they hit the road for a 2,408 - mile trip from Chicago to the hallowed Walley World in California.

For example, expanding distance from one mile to five more than doubles the number of families who could gain access to a choice of at least two public schools under an intradistrict choice policy.

That said, UTCs do lack transport funding (given they are sub-regional provisions and take students from at least a 15 mile radius, often further), which could be a barrier for students from lower income families.

Perhaps good news in education has to come from at least 3000 miles away before we can really bear to hear it.

In grades 6 through 12, CMSD will pay the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority to transport students who live at least a half - mile from their «assigned school.»

The policy is likely to prompt criticism from grammar school critics, not least because it could adversely affect pupil numbers, and therefore funding levels, at comprehensive or secondary modern schools within 15 miles of selective schools.

We compare siblings living within two miles from a Superfund site at birth where at least one sibling was conceived before or during cleanup of the site, and the other (s) was conceived after the site cleanup was completed using a family fixed effects model.