Sentences with phrase «covering millions of miles»

A whole fleet of development vehicles are being subjected to twelve months of gruelling tests, covering millions of miles between them to ensure that the Evoque achieves the same standards of ruggedness and all - terrain versatility as every Range Rover before them.

Not exact matches

This year's version of Arctic Edge was the first of its kind in more than three decades and covered more than 1.5 million acres on the ground and 65,000 miles of inland air space.

The Deepwater Horizon spill released 3 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, which eventually covered over 1,300 miles of coastline in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, taking a severe environmental and economic toll on the region.

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 United States Navy is planning a new round of sonar and weapons testing and training exercises in its Atlantic Training and Testing Study Area, which covers some 2.6 million nautical miles of inshore and offshore waters, extending from the...

Under my administration, DPW has completed tens of millions in road work, covering hundreds of miles of roads.

Some $ 12.1 million in road resurfacing projects that will cover about 115 miles of state highway are the first of the» NY Works» transportation improvement projects that were funded under Cuomo's signed 2012 - 2013 budget.

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.

It will contain a $ 20 million annual increase in funding for security in major parks across the five boroughs and the expansion of a crime - fighting tool known as ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to detect gunfire, to cover 60 square miles across the city.

The ShotSpotter program, which relies on sound sensors placed in dangerous neighborhoods to alert authorities to possible gunfire, would also grow to cover more than 60 square miles — more than twice the area it now covers — at a total cost of $ 5.5 million.

The package announced on Tuesday includes $ 341 million statewide for the so - called «last mile» funding, or monies to cover the thorniest, remote areas of the state, many of which rely on spotty satellite service — or have no coverage at all — due to the often - prohibitive cost of installation.

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.

The watershed of the world's third largest estuary — the Chesapeake Bay — covers 64,000 square miles and is home to almost 18 million people who benefit from the flood control, food sources and recreational opportunities that the ecosystem provides.

Around the same time, volcanoes a million times bigger than Mount Saint Helens erupted, spewing enormous clouds of dust and gas into the sky and covering the ground with 2 million square miles of molten lava.

2012: Total ozone reached 124 DU on Oct. 1 and 136 DU on Oct. 5 with the hole covering 8.2 million square miles (equivalent to the area of North America).

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

According to recent calculations, the upper limit on the present amount of water on the Martian surface is 800,000 to 1.2 million cubic miles, or about 1.5 times the amount of ice covering Greenland.

Other widespread population buildups can be toxic — as in May when a bloom of dinoflagellates covered nearly 4,000 square miles off China with a so - called red tide that killed off millions of fish.

Amazingly, the blast had flattened millions of trees in a broad, butterfly - shaped swath covering more than 2,000 square kilometers (775 square miles).

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

This nation has 3.9 million miles of public roads and counting; cumulatively, those road surfaces cover 1 percent of the land — an area equivalent in size to South Carolina.

Mission scientists used state - of - the - art computer simulations to show that the surface of Sputnik Planum is covered with icy, churning, convective «cells» 10 - 30 miles across, and less than a million years old.

This year's maximum was likely reached on March 7, the NSIDC said Wednesday, when sea ice covered 5.57 million square miles, the lowest in 38 years of satellite records.

All told, it covered 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square kilometers) less ocean than even the year before — a loss equal to an area the size of California and Montana combined.

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 ocean contains 320 million cubic miles of water covering 140 million miles of seafloor, more than twice the area of all the continents combined, and we've only had a look at tiny bits of it.

B - Cycle, the company that designs the bike - sharing systems used in Denver and more than 20 other cities across the country, says that on all of its systems combined, 2.1 million bike trips covering 4.5 million miles have been made on its bicycles since 2010, all of which have offset more than 2,948 metric tons of CO2 emissions and saved more than 330,000 gallons of gasoline, B - Cycle spokeswoman Marina Marich said.

Proponents talk about tens of millions of plug - in hybrid or even electric cars, each of which might use 10 kilowatt - hours a day from the grid to cover 30 or 40 miles of travel.

New estimates focused on areas described as» Snow Leopard Conservation Units,» covering only 44 percent of the snow leopard's extensive range (which extends over roughly 3 million km2 or 1,158,306 square miles) suggests that there may be between 4,678 and 8,745 snow leopards just in these units.

Arctic sea ice extent was below normal for the 11th consecutive April this year, covering an average of 5.7 million square miles (14.7 million square kilometers) 2.1 percent below the 1979 - 2000 average extent and the 15th smallest April extent since records began in 1979.

With land that covers 3.8 million square miles, it can be a challenge to pinpoint the best US date spots across the country, but we have done our best to give you a little taste of everything in our suggestions below.

The pans and plastic valve covers can last the life of the vehicle which can easily exceed 1 million miles.

Moose, Kelly, and I snuggle up in a king - size bed before getting another early start to take a slight detour south and visit Arches National Park, a remarkable 120 square miles covered with elaborate entrada sandstone structures that have been eroded by rainwater over hundreds of millions of years.

Studies have been done as part of BMW's Project i, involving more than 1,000 participants covering over some 12.5 million miles.

Other improvements made to the Ford Transit's new diesel engine encompass efforts to minimize noise (using sound - deadening engine covers, optimized gear geometry with optimized meshing, etc.), and improve durability (the new engine has been subjected to the equivalent of 3.4 million miles of durability testing).

Considering that VZ's wireless network stretches across the country, with its LTE network covering more than 2.4 million square miles, and the fact that the company ranks No. 1 in speed, data, and reliability tests, the chance of a newcomer to the wireless arena taking away market share is virtually nonexistent.

Neither feral cats, nor even just a giant rug made from their fur, really cover all the nearly three million square miles of Australia, the world's sixth largest nation by land mass.

Before being taken out of service in 1997, this luxury ship completed 968 official voyages, covering more than one million nautical miles.

The Balearic Islands cover a total area of about one thousand nine hundred and twenty seven square miles, and have a population of approximately one million, one hundred thousand residents.

Our cross country network covers 13 million miles every year and we want to ensure every route offers the best combination of destinations, price and journey time for customers.»

The easy to read map covers about 10 million sq km (3.8 million sq miles) of the red planet's surface, or about 7 %.

Howat and his colleagues concentrated on the southeastern region of Greenland, an area covering about one - fifth of the island's 656,373 square miles (1.7 million square kilometers).

The range of ocean remaining frozen over the northern polar region reached its minimum extent for 2009 on September 12, when it covered 1.97 million square miles (5.1 million square km), and now appears to be growing again as the Arctic starts its annual cool - down, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.

The total area covered by thick older ice that survives one or more summers («multi-year ice») shrank 42 percent or 1.54 million square kilometers (595,000 square miles), leaving thinner first - year ice («seasonal ice») as the dominant type of ice in the region.

Arctic sea ice cover as of Wednesday reflects had already begun to slowly recede two weeks after it had reached its maximum extent for the winter of 2016 - 17 on March 7, when it reached 5.57 million square miles (14.42 million square kilometers).

Arctic sea ice declined by roughly 10 percent in the past decade, culminating in a record 2007 minimum ice cover of 1.59 million square miles.

A few feet thick, sea ice covers one million square miles of ocean in summer and grows to six million square miles in winter, doubling the size of the continent.

The so - called minimum sea - ice extent in «07 was at that time the lowest since satellite monitoring began in 1979, covering an average of 1.65 million square miles.

About a million more square miles of ocean are covered in ice in 2013 than in 2012, a whopping 60 percent increase — and a dramatic deviation from predictions of an «ice - free Arctic in 2013,» the Daily Mail noted.

According to the latest monthly report from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, only 4.67 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean was covered in ice in December 2016, the second - lowest total the center has even recorded for that month.