Sentences with phrase «dozen miles off»

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

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

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

You could pull off where it's safe — which may not be possible on the interstate, where it's unclear as to where the breakdown lane really is — and clean the half - dozen or more sensors, then repeat it every couple miles.

That makes its round - the - world awards for 140,000 miles in economy and 220,000 in business a great way to check dozens of countries off your bucket list.

In other words, if you agree that there is lots of energy at higher prices than those consistent with Hummers in every garage, and if you agree that political manipulation in almost every country (including the US) to keep prices down is hurting us more and more every day, and you note from ample literature, demonstrations, and at least a dozen European countries where energy use used both more efficiently and more carefully than in the US, you have to conclude that the forecasts of continued rapid growth in demand will be cut off at the pass, so to speak, by higher prices, drying up of subsidies, and above all more efficient and more careful energy use, fewer miles run and all that.

Rough calculations show if you drill about a dozen mine shafts as deep as possible into the thing, and plunk megaton nuclear bombs down there, and then fire them off simultaneously, you'll get a repeat of the Long Valley Caldera explosion of about 800,000 years ago — which coated everything east of it with miles of ash and injected a giant aerosol cloud into the stratosphere — the ash layer alone formed a triangle stretching from the caldera to Louisiana to North Dakota, including all of Arizona and most of Idaho and everything in between — I bet that would have a cooling factor of at least -30 W / m ^ 2 — and you could go and do the Yellowstone Plateau at the same time — geoengineering at its finest.

Giant wind turbines a dozen or so miles off the Atlantic coast have great potential to cost - effectively produce massive amounts of emissions - free electricity.