Sentences with phrase «country mile falls»

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The defending national champion in the outdoor two mile (8:53.59), he won the state Federation Championship 5K race last fall (15:30.40) and owns the country's best time in the indoor 3,200 meters this season (9:09.77).

Minutes away from Hamburg, you have Canada and Niagara Falls to the North; winery tours, Amish Country and the Chautauqua Institute to the South; ski resorts and amusement parks to the East and over 9,000 square miles of fishing, boating and water sports to the west.

The EPA Wednesday announced that a two - mile long tidal portion of Wappinger Creek that includes locations in the Village of Wappingers Falls and the Towns of Poughkeepsie and Wappinger has been added to the list of the country's most hazardous waste sites.

That number has since fallen by more than two thirds, to less than 2,500 square miles in 2011, which is the lowest rate of destruction since the country began keeping records in the late 1980s.

No narrative filmmaker working regularly in this country has anything like the international profile or intrinsic significance of, say, Mike Leigh or Aki Kaurismäki (to name a couple of figures who aren't a million miles from a classically «Australian» sensibility) though many have succeeded artistically once or twice before falling silent or moving to other fields.

Becoming FilmDistrict's biggest hit by a country mile, Olympus Has Fallen fell just shy of the $ 100 million mark domestically and added an okay $ 62 M from outside the country whose resolve it celebrates.

Three years later and thousands of miles away from daily politics (King left office in January after serving the maximum two terms), he is even more enthusiastic about the Maine Learning Technology Initiative that took effect last fall and that he predicted would «put Maine on the technological map,» produce «the country's most digitally literate teachers and students,» and «be the most significant project in the history of the state.»

Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles through relentless, stifling heat, a variety of deadly bacteria, polluted seas and toxic fish — all in a country where the only music to be heard for miles around is «La Macarena.»

NATIONAL FOREST RESERVE: The Mountain Pineridge This area is a favourite destination for nature lovers, due to its high elevation, mountain - fed streams and falls, the abundance of wildlife, orchids, caves, plus hundreds of miles of some of the best roads in the country.

While the broad trend in Brazil was bad news for its forests, there were moments of elation for environmentalists, including the creation of the 12,000 - square - kilometer (4,630 - square - mile) Turubaxi - Téa Indigenous Territory in Amazonas state; some of Temer's most environmentally damaging proposals failed to advance; infrastructure expansion in Brazil and neighboring countries got bogged down by corruption scandals and basic economics; indigenous communities won a series of legal victories and settlements against the state, and the headline deforestation rate in the Brazilian Amazon fell 16 percent versus last year.