Sentences with phrase «dozen miles from»

Nearby Portsmouth is home to IBM's UK headquarters and the UK headquarters of Zurich Financial Services is located a dozen miles from Southampton in Fareham.

The irony is that not a dozen miles from the met office in Exeter are some astounding sites demonstrating climate change in action as people colonised then retreated from these hills as the climate changed.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The Raleigh portfolio encompasses dozens of subsidiaries, including an archival records - keeping firm, a rental provider for film and TV production equipment and a vineyard adjacent to Rosenthal's majestic vacation retreat four miles from the Malibu coastline.

On one ten - mile freeway drive from downtown to the RV park, we counted more than a dozen cars that drifted into other lanes.

On a desert hillside, 225 miles from their bombed - out homes in Syria, a half - dozen refugee fathers and sons have a modest winterization project going on.

One expedient was to assign them to monasteries, which became themselves the rectors and the recipients of the revenues.30 Sometimes they undertook to provide for the cure of souls from their own ranks, but of this arrangement there was grievous complaint inasmuch as the only baptismal font was located at the monastery, and the villages might be a dozen miles away.

Sitting on 15 acres of rolling parkland, with an adjacent golf course, The Westin Prince is just minutes from downtown Toronto and within five miles of more than two dozen major corporations including Kraft, Sunoco, IBM, McDonald's and SAP.

Some 90 miles from home, we passed all manner of vehicles, including at least a dozen with Texas plates on them.

Some 10,000 grade - A fans who had made the 186 - mile trip from Baltimore helped swell the attendance to 71,163, a record for professional football in New York; they whooped and howled and noisily followed the cues of a dozen short - skirted young ladies who led cheers, but all in vain.

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).

«As state legislators representing millions of New Yorkers who live within the 50 mile blast radius surrounding Indian Point we demand that FERC respect New York's authority and jurisdiction in this matter,» reads a letter sent Friday from Democratic Sen. Tony Avella of Queens, Democratic Assemblywoman Sandy Galef of Westchester and three dozen others to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Sanders urged the Cuomo administration to use its power under the federal Clean Water Act to reject the 124 - mile Constitution pipeline, which would cross dozens of bodies of water on its way from the fracking fields of Pennsylvania to Schoharie County.

Each site varied in the number of people living within one kilometer (about five - eighths of a mile)-- from nearly a dozen to over 17 thousand.

That same day, a research vessel seven miles from the spill site discovered dozens of communities of dead and dying coral.

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.

Instead of heading to sub-Saharan Africa, the birds made regular trips from their permanent nests to landfills dozens of miles away — something previously unheard of.

Months later, dozens of ragged survivors make landfall on an island off the southeast coast of Africa, more than 3,000 miles from home.

He brought dozens of donors to Kumar from his hometown, Meerut, an old city about 40 miles from Delhi.

On Mondays, he bikes 20 to 30 miles with more than a dozen older men — many of them from his men's group — followed by lunch.

Erlandson recently collected dozens of these little stemmed points from San Miguel Island, a scrap of land 27 miles off the coast of California.

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

In Adapazari, about 25 miles from Izmit, dozens of buildings pitched over at crazy angles but were not severely damaged.

Thousands of miles of undersea fiber - optic cables that convey data from continent to continent rise out of the ocean in only a few dozen locations, branching out from those hubs to connect to millions of computers.

Modern passenger jets have miles of wires and dozens of computers and other instruments that control everything from the engines to the passengers» headsets.

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.

There are millions of people using online dating, and there are dozens of sites to choose from — most of which allow you to search for matches by zip code and mile radius (e.g., 10, 50, or 100 + miles).

(In Danish, English and Korean with subtitles) The Way Back (PG - 13 for violence, a nude image, depictions of physical hardships, and brief profanity) Fact - based bio-pic, based on Slavomir Rawicz's memoir chronicling his undertaking a grueling 4,500 mile trek from Siberia to India following an escape with a half - dozen fellow prisoners from a Russian gulag in the Forties.

While the ECU logs out byte by byte, crackling like a dozen scrunched - up packets of chips, the steering - wheel monitor tells us that the range dropped from 295 to 167 miles after only five laps, while the state of charge fell from 100 percent to 55 percent.

Rusty Wallis Volkswagen has earned the trust of our loyal customers that travel dozens of miles from cities like Richardson and Frisco to visit our Garland, Texas dealership.

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.

After averaging dozens of flights from different itineraries, here are some the sampled mile values.

If a dog is in heat, she might draw the attention of dozens of intact local male dogs, sometimes even from several miles away.

This week, two dozen puppies and dogs made the 900 mile trek from North Carolina to Massachusetts, as the Animal Rescue League of Boston (ARL) expanded its network of transport partners to the Tar Heel state.

Jackson recently drove over 1,000 miles to transport dozens of cats and kittens from shelters that couldn't save them to organizations that welcomed them into their adoption programs as part of his new Operation Homeward Bound.

Not to mention more than a dozen road killed cats in the same amount of time within a mile from my house.

The Clearwater Kennel is 893 miles from the Farmerstown Auction, and has received dozens of citations from USDA inspections during the past 14 months, including transportation - related violations.

On Monday, Jackson Galaxy and his wife Minoo started a 1,000 mile journey from Los Angeles to Boulder, CO to save the lives of dozens of kittens through a new program by the Jackson Galaxy Foundation, Homeward Bound.

The most miles can be had by choosing United as the air partner for these combo packages, but you can choose from dozens of airlines.

Running coast - to - coast through the heart of America on a 3,200 - mile odyssey from sea to shining sea, US ‑ 50 passes through a dozen different states and four state capitals, as well as the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. Along the route are some of the country's most magnificent landscapes: the Sierra Nevada and the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains, the endless farmlands of the Great Plains, and the desiccated deserts of Utah and Nevada.

With over a dozen Class IV rapids and a spectacular jaunt through a gorge twice the depth of the Grand Canyon, Mountain Travel Sobek offers a 120 - mile trip that, due to the construction of a nearby dam, may be impossible to experience a few years from now.

A paved road from Punta Gorda leads - inland for 21 miles to San Antonio and beyond to a dozen Mayan villages.

There are dozens of fun surf spots from lefts, rights, beach breaks, reef breaks and A-frames — something for everyone over 13 miles of coastline, mostly protected by -LSB-...]