Sentences with phrase «dozen miles»

In addition, they found that even in the same river basin, streams that are a few dozen miles from each other can have different sets of species.

It seems obvious on the surface: when you're driving a few thousand pounds of metal and glass around at several dozen miles per hour, it's nice to be protected.

The seating position does offer good visibility when driving around town, and after a few dozen miles it seems almost normal.

The skeletal material was found in sandstone in the Woronso - Mille paleontological study area that lies some three dozen miles north of Hadar, the fossiliferous site that has yielded since 1973, the most fossils from a single site attributed to a single species, Australopithecus afarensis, the same species designation claimed for Kadanuumuu.

Several dozen miles west of the Smoky Mountain Range, on the outskirts of the Nashville scene, those who own properties in relatively dry areas have a good chance of getting decent rates on homeowner's insurance.

A concept vessel from Blueseed would enable residents to live, work, eat, and play two dozen miles off the U.S. coast.

Anyone griping abut the intensity forecast for Irene simply has no case, in that these forecasts are always portrayed as conditional and history shows just how much small shifts in conditions in the last few dozen miles offshore can make or break a tropical cyclone.

Researchers have determined that the «shallow» glaciers that edge Greenland's coast actually stretch approximately five dozen miles inland - potentially contributing more to rising sea levels than previously thought.

Hillary Clinton has not spoken out in a political race since leaving the State Department (although there are relatively few this year), and the New York race is taking place a few dozen miles from the couple's Chappaqua home.

In the meantime, check out the pictures from the trip, which covered most of the length of Armenia and took us within a few dozen miles of the Iranian border (one funny sight — a couple of bar / strip joint / party clubs out in the middle of nowhere, basically tourist traps for Iranian men eager to get out and have A Good Time).

Several dozen miles west of the Smoky Mountain Range, on the outskirts of the Nashville scene, those who own properties in relatively dry areas have a good chance of getting decent rates on homeowner's insurance.

I had the opportunity, with one other reporter, to accompany scientists to a research camp set up on the drifting sea ice a few dozen miles from the point at which everything else is south.

And now the Middle Eastern bishops» Synod demands that Israel end its «occupation» of the West Bank, which as a practical matter means that Iranian proxies would install missiles on hilltops a dozen miles from Tel Aviv.

Two brothers, peasants from the nearby village, were looking for fertilizer at the base of a cliff about a dozen miles across the Nile River from Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt when they found and broke open the jar.

Recently I was walking along a stream that empties into Lake Michigan within half a dozen miles of my farm.

My skin was cold, my heart raced as though I had run a dozen miles.

But the Glenview man never expected to see one emerge from 6 inches of snow at Beck Lake dog park in Des Plaines, about a dozen miles from Lake Michigan.

«There are three paths for reducing crashes: design safer streets, stop / prevent dangerous driving and reduce the number of vehicles,» said Charles Komanoff, an energy - policy analyst and environmental activist who has criticized Mr. de Blasio for his daily routine of driving from Gracie Mansion to a gym in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and then to City Hall, a detour that adds more than a dozen miles to his commute.

The tiny, reddish world, dubbed 2014 MU69, stretches just a dozen miles or so, a red potato about the size of Manhattan.

Neutron stars, stellar corpses that pack the mass of the sun into balls a dozen miles across, are among the most extreme objects in the universe.

On a foggy spring morning just before sunrise, 27 miles northwest of Cape Mendocino, California, a pimple of rock roughly a dozen miles below the ocean floor finally reaches its breaking point.

In 2005, the Japanese probe Hayabusa hovered a dozen miles away from a lumpy asteroid named Itokawa, then collected some material in anticipation of a 2010 return to Earth.

Falcarius utahensis was unearthed from the Cedar Mountain Formation about a dozen miles southeast of Green River, Utah.

4 Rogue black holes Our galaxy is full of black holes, collapsed stellar corpses just a dozen miles wide.

But scientists have been daunted by the challenge of designing an instrument that could bore down through a dozen miles of ice to find out.

I live a dozen miles from the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on the central coast of California.

According to the latest analysis, Rheasilvia formed 1 billion years ago when an asteroid measuring about a dozen miles across slammed into Vesta, gouging out enough material to fill the Grand Canyon 400 times over.

Photographer Joyce Lessimanuaja Bluett captured the early morning blast from her home in Kokopo, about a dozen miles away.

Soon after, pulsars were identified as rapidly spinning neutron stars, the remnants of supernova explosions; they weigh as much as the sun but are just a dozen miles wide.

The danger lies not with the moons themselves, which are pikers (on the order of a dozen miles across), but with the rough lives they lead.

They are composed mainly of neutrons and measure about a dozen miles wide.

We're told the SUV will use a plug - in version of the powertrain in the ActiveHybrid 5 sedan — a 3.0 - liter inline - six engine, a powerful electric motor / generator, and a large enough battery to permit at least a dozen miles of electric - only driving.

It could be as simple as an exhaust leak; it could be your engine trying to tell you it only has a dozen miles under its belt before things get really expensive.

Nigel is behind the wheel as we leave, enjoying his first few dozen miles at the helm of the F - Type.

However, hiding in deep within the engine was its biggest sore spot, a puny 159 pound - feet of torque that sucked up a gallon of gas after only about a dozen miles.

If you live in or around Fairhope, Alabama («a dozen miles as the laughing gull would fly across the bay from the port city of Mobile») you might be lucky enough to know Sonny Brewer, the owner of the Over The Transom Bookstore in Fairhope.

In the days when inflation adjusted gasoline was likely $ 8 - $ 10 per gallon and cars only got a dozen miles out of one; we didn't venture that far.

For a change of pace, drive a dozen miles or so up into the hills and you'll find a beautiful forest of coastal redwoods in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park.

There are countless trails to explore, although only avid hikers should attempt the more strenuous ones, which are more than a dozen miles in length and have climbers scrambling over rocks at certain points.

In 1525, Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés passed within a few dozen miles of the place without learning of it.

Playground's artists have taken even greater liberties this time, condensing half this giant landmass into a map that's only a dozen miles from corner to corner.

To call the Storm King Art Center a sculpture garden hardly does justice to its five hundred acres of hills and light, a dozen miles across the Hudson from Dia: Beacon.

The 25 - minute documentary outlines how this Caribbean island nation, tucked a few dozen miles from the South American coast and long a refining hub for Venezuelan oil, is struggling to expand tourism but do so without degrading a prime asset drawing visitors — its coral reefs.

The song took on new meaning for me in 2003, when I accompanied a team of climate and ocean researchers on their annual expedition aimed at studying changes in the Arctic Ocean beneath the shifting sea ice just a few dozen miles from the North Pole.

I start by noting some of the unnerving situations I've been in while reporting about climate change and related issues — sitting with a murderous cattle rancher on his porch deep in the Amazon rain forest, camping on cracking sea ice floating on the 14,000 - foot - deep Arctic Ocean a few dozen miles from the North Pole.

The autonomous camera that took these images was placed on the ice a few dozen miles from the North Pole in early spring, but has since drifted hundreds of miles.