Sentences with phrase «dozen miles of»

One of the highlights of celebrations marking the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage in 1909 was the dedication of the Palisades Interstate Park, a joint effort by philanthropists and the legislatures of New York and New Jersey to stop quarrymen from destroying the awesome curtain of rock that hugs a dozen miles of the Hudson River's western shore running northward from the George Washington Bridge.

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

As I finished the last remaining steps to the top, an intense and unrelenting gust of wind swept over me, almost sending my hat over the edge towards the several dozen miles of plains that lay below.

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.

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).

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.

Some warheads can also be exploded dozens of miles overhead to generate a widespread, fearsome, electronics - destroying effect called electromagnetic pulse, or EMP.

Once the booster has used up its fuel dozens of miles above Earth, it detaches, and the second - stage rocket motor ignites.

Working out of a dozen corrugated - metal buildings in a dismal windblown patch of desert in Mojave, 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, it has rolled out 26 new types of manned aircraft in 30 years, many of them rule - breaking and innovative; most big aerospace contractors, by contrast, struggle to get a single new aircraft out in an entire decade.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

Which is why Amazon has already built dozens of fulfillment centers that put it within 20 miles of over 30 % of the US population and 50 % of it's target market.

Yet there are about a dozen craft breweries within a five - mile radius of their home office.

Flanked by legislative leaders and dozens of lawmakers, Sandoval presented a Nevada license plate with «TESLA» to Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla's vice president for business development who helped pick the site at an industrial park along Interstate 80 about 15 miles east of Sparks.

The sleepy 65 - mile stretch of water once lined with slave plantations now passes through dozens of small communities.

Though there were dozens of royal rulers and religious leaders within a few miles of Bethlehem, God chose to make the angelic proclamation to people without power, riches, and authority — to poor shepherds in the cold, dark, night.

The result is a movie that blurs the lines between fact and fiction, documentary and feature film, telling the story of childhood elation and adult struggle, in a motel where this happens every day and featuring dozens of extras who live within miles of the set.

Specifically, we pop in a DVD titled Winged Migration, Jacques Perrin's Oscar - nominated documentary that follows dozens of species of birds on their amazing migratory trek — some covering more than 2,000 miles.

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.

The 5 1/2 - mile route will take place over two hours and will feature dozens of floats and 20 marching bands led by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns as the Grand Marshall.

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.

He only wants a third of a tank, just enough to get him to the racetrack and then launch him through a half - dozen blistering passes down the quarter - mile.

When both reappear, joining Carver and a dozen past and future foes for Coronas and Jackhammers in the shade of one of the few trees in this sun - baked part of the park by the Belt Parkway, Pamz has six pizzas, and Caca's smile is a mile - wide: The BQFL has presented him with a prize far more valuable than a check or trophy: professional receiver's gloves stitched with No. 24.

With championship golf courses, hundreds of miles of walking, jogging and cycling trails, dozens of outstanding sports facilities, find out why Placer Valley attracts tens of thousands visitors each year.

When your daughter dons «scrubs» (pajamas) and checks her dolls using a «stethoscope» (for my daughter it was a hair ribbon) her mind is going a mile a minute, practicing what she has experienced herself dozens of times.

A half - dozen Tinley Park residents concerned about an undeveloped portion of the Radcliffe Place subdivision attended a recent meeting to discuss changes to the land about a half - mile west of the Tinley Park Public Library.

MCAGCC Youth Sports provides programming on this isolated training base — located in the high desert 50 miles northeast of Palm Springs — with more than two dozen sports activities for children ages 3 to 18.

On Saturday, Giordani joined dozens of children and teens at Burnham Park to compete in the Chicago Park District's Cross Country Championship, a 1 - mile race on the shores of Lake Michigan.

The Gandhi statue also prompted the designation of Heritage Park, a half - mile - long strip of green space along McCormick between Dempster and Church Streets, where more than a dozen other statues honoring international icons could be erected, officials say.

The proposed 124 - mile pipeline would cross dozens of bodies of water and would require tens or hundreds of thousands of trees to be felled.

A dozen massive fermentation tanks slowly traveled on barges along a 225 - mile stretch of the Erie Canal before reaching Rochester last week.

Close to four dozen top NYC officials — including a pair of forensic scientists at the medical examiner's office, three federal litigators at the Law Department, and the director of the city's GreeNYC program — will be joining the spandex - clad masses on the Verrazano Bridge next week for the 26.2 mile NYC Marathon.

A half - dozen Democrats qualified to run for the heavily Democratic district, whose population centers of Charlotte in the south and Winston - Salem and Greensboro in the north are separated by about 90 miles of territory, roughly along Interstate 85.

«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.

Just a few miles away, a couple dozen of the president's supporters waved «Honk for Trump» signs along the road outside of the Onondaga County Republican Party headquarters.

About a mile away, Staten Island Democratic Chairman John Gulino addressed a small group of about two dozen Reichard supporters at the party borough headquarters in New Dorp.

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.

Ever since, he has made dozens of deep expeditions, sometimes paying his own way, and discovered bacteria living more than two miles beneath the surface in 140 - degree - Fahrenheit heat.

The first time Tullis Onstott ventured underground, he squeezed into an elevator with dozens of South African gold miners and descended a mile into a pit called Mponeng.

Then she joined a dozen other foreigners on three skiffs heading down the Sangha River toward the Republic of Congo, 50 miles to the south.

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

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.

Unlike the Olympic road and mountain bike races, which take place over dozens of miles and last several hours, a BMX race is a sprint.

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.

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.

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.

But I'll probably hold out on buying a microdrone, because even the Draganflyer is a mere toy compared with what dozens of engineering teams at universities and companies around the world are hard at work on: miniature, autonomous, inexpensive aircraft that you or I could send flying miles to perform any of a wide range of tasks.

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