Sentences with phrase «car exhaust fumes»

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.

The gases responsible for creating low - level ozone are carbon monoxide, the oxides of nitrogen (all found in car exhaust fumes), methane, and other hydrocarbons.

Still others are almost unavoidable in today's busy world, such as cigarette smoke, car exhaust fumes, cleaning products, air fresheners etc..

People who live in big cities are exposed to car exhaust fumes and industrial chemicals, or if you live in the country you may be exposed to fertilizers and pesticides from neighbouring farms.

Car exhaust fumes contain estrogen - like particles that we inhale through our lungs.

Everyday we're exposed to thousands of toxins... from the chemicals in the coke zero you guzzled down at lunch to the car exhaust fumes you breathe in walking down the road.

A 2003 Greek study associated a 10 - unit increase in carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas found in car exhaust fumes, with a 46 % hike in deaths from cardiovascular disease.

Not exact matches

A catalytic converter on a car, for example, uses metal catalysts to pluck toxins out of exhaust fumes.

Do scented products, gasoline fumes, car exhaust, tire stores, new rugs or carpet, or...

Or perhaps you yourself have Hashimoto's hypothyroidism and experience unpleasant or even debilitating symptoms when exposed to perfumes, scented products, gasoline fumes, car exhaust, or other chemical odors.

When I replaced my muffler some years back, I started the car with the muffler off and was seriously tempted to drive around making a huge racket without any concern about exhaust fumes.

Yet there it was: a sports car straight from Valhalla, that unmistakable 911 shape accelerating into our exhaust fumes, a blonde riding alongside the sunglassed male driver.

- Also the car is running rich because of an air leak since I can smell exhaust fumes when I'm on the road inside the cabin

I'd driven it before, when it was called the Micra R and it had a four - cylinder Primera Touring Car engine fitted, and it was hilarious — deafeningly loud and fearsomely oversteery, with a cabin rich with exhaust fumes.

Now the topic of exhaust fumes is at the forefront, and on the way to emission - free cars, plug - in hybrids are at least a bridge technology.

There are no exhaust fumes or oil leaks, and the drive train of the car tends to stay clean.

Do not put the hutch in the garage if you park your cars in there as the exhaust fumes are dangerous to them.

It also makes life much better in the bike lanes, where cyclists are often sucking diesel fumes and car exhaust, because as one study noted, «Cyclists, she said, «tend to have higher breathing rates than other pedestrians, so whatever they're inhaling is going deeper into their lungs.»

Increases in vehicle traffic and the number of diesel cars on the road prevented any improvements in air pollution from automobile exhaust fumes.

Yes, the do this, they fill the roads with cars to that a pedestrian can not cross them without getting killed (and barricade them too) and stick the pedestrians up in the air where they can suck on all the exhaust fumes.