Sentences with phrase «by millions of miles»

We live in a mobile society and a nation networked by millions of miles of roads and trails.

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Approximately 60 million Americans use their cars for work - related trips, but 50 percent of them are not capturing that deduction, according to a survey by the mile - tracking app MileIQ.

US - based Chevron (CVX) was fined 50 million reals ($ 28 million) by Brazil's federal government earlier this month for leaking around 2,400 to 3,000 barrels from one of its offshore drilling platforms located 75 - miles off the coast of Brazil's iconic beaches in Rio de Janeiro.

The stats are fairly staggering: four million miles of public roads, 140,000 miles of railroad tracks operated by freight carriers, 25,000 miles of navigable waterways, 9,800 coastal and inland waterway facilities, and 5,200 public - use airports, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Wall Street is going the extra mile to win hearts and minds by plowing hundreds of millions into a wide gamut of community projects.

If Tesla goes ahead with its Tesla Mobility ride sharing business, the amount of data could rise to 400 million miles per day by 2025 or 2030.

After arm - twisting by Gov. Ann W. Richards, who had lobbied to keep Apple from going to another state, Mr. Hays joined two other commissioners to approve nearly $ 1 million in tax incentives to Apple in return for the company's agreeing to build an office complex in this suburban county a few miles north of Austin.

«By compiling millions of accident - free miles, serving hundreds of hours in their communities and articulating the passion they have for their careers as truck drivers, these new captains are excellent examples of the professionalism that's become a hallmark of our industry.»

Before activating the features enabled by the new hardware, we will further calibrate the new sensor suite using millions of miles of real - world driving to ensure significant improvements to safety and performance.

One of the most advanced if controversial efforts is being pushed by electric automaker Tesla, whose semi-autonomous Autopilot feature has logged some 100 million miles but has also resulted in a death of a Florida Tesla owner, which regulators are investigating.

Their reaction is created by colliding two plasma balls made of hydrogen atom cores at one million miles per hour.

However, even if the moon was moving 6 inches a year that would only amount to about 95 miles every millions years, and the orbit of the moon varies by more than that all by itself.

Hundreds of miles away, the colors of the Grand Canyon — layers of red and gold rock millions of years in the making — are often obscured by smog from the cars of Phoenix, Vegas and even Los Angeles.

He asks, for example,»... is it really a coincidence that the height of the pyramid of Cheops [in Egypt] multiplied by a thousand million — 98 million miles — corresponds approximately to the distance between the earth and the sun?..

Several years laterLorillard spent the balance of $ 2 million building a golf course, a racetrackand a mile - long toboggan slide lit by electricity.

Tabbed in 1961 by Roone Arledge (then an ABC executive producer) to be the host of a new sports anthology, McKay became a kind of explorer, traveling nearly five million miles, across 40 countries, over the next 36 years to seek out and report on sport's exotic secrets.

Who cares if it effects the players and we get beat by bournmouth our season is already over a million miles away from challenging for major honours and if we do nt take action now this club will never recover and end up just being a average middle of table laughing stock!!

«a day in the life» is the rambling monologue of a housewife (not a million miles from myself;) juggling with household chores and sorting out the kids, answering the phone while cooking dinner and worrying about the economy — but at the end of the day when the jobs are done, you can escape from everyday worries by going for a run, a bike ride or for a swim — where you're alone to think stuff through or think of nothing at all — and certainly not about the phonebill or the mountain of ironing that needs doing.

Eight miles of revetments, which prevent the shoreline from being eroded, are being built in a $ 300 million venture financed mostly by the federal government, with participation by the state, city and Park District.

She didn't have to go to the bank, the supermarket everyday, she wasn't expected to look a million bucks straight after birth and she never put pressure on her kids to have reached all of their miles stones by the age of 3 weeks, have the house clean and own a thermomix..

This is equivalent to nearly 7000 million miles driven by an average passenger vehicle or 1.03 million tons of waste sent to landfill sites.

Nearly 3.5 million people live in the area served by the food bank, a territory that covers more than 6,000 square miles and much of the Chicago area and its fringes, including Kankakee and Winnebago Counties, but not Cook County.

The New York Times reports on a study by the Regional Plan Association that says the cost of operating 55 miles of planned waterfront parks would be $ 100 million a year — almost one - third of the park department's budget.

Community Walking Project Enters Final Phase «Team Members Log Twenty - One Million Steps» In the ten weeks since they began, the ninety - seven participants taking part in the «A Better Me: Fit, Healthy and Happy» fitness program sponsored by the Oneida County Health Department have cumulatively walked the equivalent of 39 - hundred miles while learning about the benefits of proper nutrition and the prevention of diabetes and obesity, according to Dr. Gayle Jones, Oneida County Director of Health.

Prioritizing Infrastructure Repairs: The executive budget increases the city's road resurfacing investment by $ 49 million, to a total of $ 226 million FY 2015 to resurface 1,000 lane miles, while prioritizing investment in bridges by allocating an additional $ 346 million for maintenance.

By James Briggs The Milwaukee Common Council on Tuesday capped two decades of public transit debate by approving construction of a $ 64.6 million, 2.1 - mile streetcar linBy James Briggs The Milwaukee Common Council on Tuesday capped two decades of public transit debate by approving construction of a $ 64.6 million, 2.1 - mile streetcar linby approving construction of a $ 64.6 million, 2.1 - mile streetcar line.

By then the shuttle was already traveling about 1,000 miles per hour and had burned through more than a million and a half pounds of fuel.

Khipus are mostly known by archaeologists as the records of the Inka civilization, the vast multiethnic empire that encompassed as many as 18 million people and nearly 3,000 miles along the Andes and the Pacific coast of South America.

The extinction at the end of the Permian is thought to have been caused by volcanic eruptions in Siberia over hundreds of thousands if not a million years that produced what are known today as the Siberian Traps: lava fields covering much of northern Russia and originally encompassing nearly 3 million square miles with an average thickness of about 1,000 feet.

Although firms like Google and Uber are teaching their software by physically driving millions of miles in the real world, they also train their algorithms using pre-recorded footage of traffic.

Color and black - and - white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space.

The idea is to expand the grid from the top down by adding thousands of miles of robust new transmission lines, while enhancing communication from the bottom up with electronics enabling millions of homes and businesses to optimize their energy use.

Each used a computational grid of about 30 - 50 million cells and covered a physical area of about 20 miles by 5 miles.

The bubble in question is actually a field of magnetic plasma, and the bigger this field gets, the faster it will travel, powered by solar winds made of particles hurtling from the sun at a million miles per hour.

Before Cassini's visit, the best picture of Phoebe was a blurry view snapped by Voyager 2 in 1981 from 1.3 million miles away.

Titan's dunes are gigantic by any standard, covering about 13 percent of the moon's surface, about 4 million square miles in all.

After the Sun, Jupiter has by far the strongest and biggest magnetic field in our solar system — it stretches about 12 million miles from east to west, almost 15 times the width of the Sun.

This image shows the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera and telescope, and the Earth - one million miles away.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that Arctic ice shrank by 131,000 square miles between August 17 and 21, leaving ice coverage that is well below the 2005 record low of 2.05 million square miles.

They will be linked by three laser beams, forming a triangle of light whose sides are each 3 million miles long.

Remotely controlling instruments aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft, located a million miles from Earth, researchers led by Stanford astrophysicist Stathis Ilonidis tracked the motion of sound waves bouncing around the sun's interior.

With more than 17 million Americans now living within one mile of an oil and gas well, there is concern about the possible contamination of surface and groundwater by trace metals, radioactive isotopes and other inorganic compounds released in these areas, they point out.

At 43 pixels wide, the new images are more than 30 percent higher in resolution than those taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2003 and 2004 at a distance of over 150 million miles (about 241 million kilometers).

Those ponds already cover an estimated 50 square miles, and an analysis of the industry's seepage records by the Canadian environmental advocacy group Environmental Defense suggests that every day around 3 million gallons of contaminated fluid leaks into the surrounding area.

The new research solves this mystery by connecting the atmospheric waves to vibrations of the Ross Ice Shelf — the largest ice shelf in the world with an area of almost half a million square kilometers (188,000 miles), roughly the size of France.

Jolted by the 40 - million mile per hour sledgehammer blow, one knot of gas — 100 billion miles in diameter in a piece of the ring — has already begun to glow brightly, as its temperature surges from a few thousand degrees to a million degrees Fahrenheit.

«We see some gas outflowing from this galaxy at millions of miles per hour, and this gas may have been blown away by the powerful radiation from the newly formed stars,» said Ryan Hickox, an astrophysicist at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and a co-author on the study.

They suggest a population of P. transitus traveled miles of then - open water between South and North America, perhaps on a raft — the earliest mammals known to have made this intercontinental migration by more than 12 million years.

If successful, Falcon I will reach much greater heights than SpaceShipOne, which was developed by Burt Rutan and his aviation company, Scaled Composites, and garnered the $ 10 million Ansari X Prize in October 2004 as the first privately financed craft to carry three people to a suborbital altitude of 100 kilometers, or 62.5 miles.

Paleontologists led by dinosaur curator Peter Makovichy of Chicago's Field Museum found the nearly complete skeleton of a 90 million - year - old, surprisingly bird - like dinosaur in the sandstone of Argentina's northern Patagonia, about 700 miles southwest of Buenos Aires.