Sentences with phrase «drove for a hundred»

By 2010 one could buy a terabyte disk drive for a hundred dollars and hold it in the palm of one hand.

Derived from a Spanish word meaning «direct» or straight ahead,» it describes a forward - moving band of turbulent weather that feeds on the warm, moist air in front of it, creating a cycle of warming and cooling that can whip up violent winds and drive itself for hundreds of miles in a single direction.

BETTER BATTERIES are the key to electric cars that can drive for hundreds of miles between rechargings, but progress on existing technology is annoyingly incremental, and breakthroughs are a distant prospect.

Simply put, you can rest assured that you'll get your money's worth out of a Corolla when you're driving it for hundreds of thousands of miles.

If you can take defensive driving for an Hundred West Virginia traffic ticket, or you get a break on your insurance for completing a defensive driving school course, then sign up today for Driving University and do it all online.

I have driven for hundreds of kilometres outside of Vancouver.

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Here's the thing: You drop your several hundred grand for the privilege of supercar ownership — and then you are informed that actually driving the thing will destroy its resale value.

Our shareholders are people in 17 countries around the world waiting for a rig to drive into a village to provide clean water to a few hundred people living there.

For instance, while hard drive sizes on the consoles are of decent size, they're not yet the hundreds of GBs one sees commonplace in PC computing, so there is a storage issue.

Hundreds of patents for self - driving car technology exist, but the company that broke through the barrier was an Italian machine vision company called VisLab.

Add the hundreds of billions of hours people spend annually driving and riding in cars instead of engaging in other, potentially more productive (or stimulating) activity, and automotive transportation as practical utility and time - consuming necessity seems ripe for a redesigned consumer experience and relationship.

The strong sales figures are driven via hundreds of profitable SKUs, with no single SKU accounting for more than 10 % of sales.

Along East Riverside Drive, hundreds of run - down, 1960s - era apartments have been demolished in recent years, making way for mixed - use developments.

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

Failing each time, and driven to further demonic measures by the love of Michal, his own daughter, for David, he sets what he hopes will be a fatal price on Michal's hand — the foreskins of a hundred Philistines.

The broadband customer services agent hung up on me yesterday and I have to drive my son a hundred miles to serve at a Mass for the Martyrs of the English College.

Hundreds of thousands of Arabs were driven out of the Jewish state to create space for the new political entity to evolve without a disturbing pluralism.

Through the Consumer Goods Forum, the CDP / We Mean Business Coalition, and the public - private Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, hundreds of major companies have committed to eliminating commodity - driven deforestation from their supply chains by 2020, including companies that account for 90 percent of the global trade in palm oil.

There are hundreds of thousands of fans who remain sane when the Western New York winter dumps a human's worth of snow on them, only to be driven nuts by the constant failures of the Buffalo Bills, and if you don't feel for these people from the bottom of your heart, then you don't have a human soul.

The 2013 Heart of Carolina Food Drive brought together hundreds of local businesses, schools, clubs and individuals in November and December to collect food and raise funds for families in need throughout central and eastern North Carolina.

Never had an accident in more than 25 years and hundreds of thousands of miles driven, got one ticket for passing back when she was 16, but has never been pulled over even since (learned her lesson, although to be fair, the place she got a ticket was deceptive).

After diving into the literature and research while studying for my advanced degrees and working intimately with hundreds of families through my work (plus 3 co-sleeping babes of my own), I discovered that those natural drives of early childhood are actually brilliant and essential for a little one to thrive.

«Tomorrow, I am announcing the details of a new partnership that will create hundreds of new jobs at an idle dairy facility in New York,» Cuomo said in announcing the appearance, which will tout HP Hood's plans for the facility at the Genesee Valley Agri - Business Park, 5140 Ag Park Drive.

The campaign, through e-mail and online advertising, mobilized tens of thousands to drive hundreds of miles to volunteer for the candidate in states stretching from Washington to Florida.

To help defray some of the cost of prom, I started my Prom Dress Drive three years ago and it has helped hundreds of local girls find a perfect gown for the dance,» Legislator Dixon said.

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon's Winter Clothing Drive was extremely successful and volunteers spent hours sorting hundreds of items and preparing for distribution.

Public services including the payment of tax credits and the production of new driving licences could be hit by strike action after hundreds of IT staff voted for industrial action over pay.

At noon, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Food Bank For New York City will celebrate the donation of hundreds of diapers in her office's holiday diaper drive, Borough President's Northern Manhattan Office, 431 W. 125th St., Manhattan.

ALBANY - Nine people were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs in Albany County on New Year's Eve, though hundreds more took advantage of the county's Safe Ride program, Sheriff Craig D. Apple announced Sunday.

Thousands of science enthusiasts braved a driving rain on Saturday to participate in the March for Science in Washington, D.C., joining crowds at hundreds of other satellite events across the globe to celebrate what the head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science called ``...

For a sedentary person, even driving to the shops and parking a hundred metres from the entrance can be an important event, BrownelI argues.

For fusion - powered energy, you need big science — massive laboratories, hundreds of researchers making this their life's work, advanced equipment and a concerted multiyear drive — and NIF is nothing if not big science.

As Robert Ernst explains: «Whereas a racing car will often fail after completing a hundred superfast laps because the engine has overheated, a tractor (representing a normal body cell) will continue to drive up and down the field for a lot longer, but also a lot slower.»

The report explains that existing test fleets of self - driving vehicles would take tens or even hundreds of years to drive the number of miles necessary for performing a statistically significant safety comparison.

«Even when the genes driving cancer are known, clinicians don't have an efficient way to choose among the hundreds of possible drug therapies,» said study leader Kai Wang, PhD, associate professor of biomedical informatics and director of clinical informatics at the Institute for Genomic Medicine at CUMC.

It has been used for hundreds of years as a way to increase male sexual drive.

Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I mean, I've saved hundreds of gallbladders just because gallbladder issues are almost always due to food allergens and a combination of low level stomach acid which, you know, may be driven by even a deeper infection, but definitely the food and the stomach acid off the bat is the first perfect storm element that really sets you up for gallbladder issues.

Audiences are extremely familiar with the kinds of story beats that drive not just these «new» programs but the hundreds that came before them; buddy - cop and spy - guy moves have been remixed and repeated for decades, but these derivative works ignore that reality.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening Thanksgiving 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS Australia (PG - 13 for violence, sensuality and profanity) Romance drama, set at the dawn of WWII just before the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese, chronicles the love relationship which blossoms between a genteel heiress (Nicole Kidman) and the rough - hewn rancher (Hugh Jackman) who helps her drive a herd of 2,000 head of cattle to market across hundreds of miles of unforgiving terraFor movies opening Thanksgiving 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS Australia (PG - 13 for violence, sensuality and profanity) Romance drama, set at the dawn of WWII just before the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese, chronicles the love relationship which blossoms between a genteel heiress (Nicole Kidman) and the rough - hewn rancher (Hugh Jackman) who helps her drive a herd of 2,000 head of cattle to market across hundreds of miles of unforgiving terrafor violence, sensuality and profanity) Romance drama, set at the dawn of WWII just before the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese, chronicles the love relationship which blossoms between a genteel heiress (Nicole Kidman) and the rough - hewn rancher (Hugh Jackman) who helps her drive a herd of 2,000 head of cattle to market across hundreds of miles of unforgiving terrain.

In a recent post on Think with Google, Google focused on the opportunity for brands to connect with consumers by focusing on the hundreds of real - time, intent - driven micro moments that make today's mobile driven customer journey.

«Hundreds of schools are now collaborating on a scale never witnessed before - brilliant heads and teachers are working together, sharing best practice and driving improvement throughout the system, raising standards for their pupils,» said a Department for Education spokesman.

And the documents for spending, called Local Control and Accountability Plan or LCAPs, often run hundreds of pages, morphing into the very same bureaucratic, compliance - driven exercises that Brown said plagued top - down accountability systems.

This job called for a car comfortable enough for logging hundreds of miles of freeway driving but spicy enough to keep things interesting.

If you absorb the messaging Ford created for this truck — just take a look at it competing in and completing the Baja 1000 and then driving hundreds of miles back to home base — you might start to imagine the production truck at your local Ford dealership is a purpose - built, knobby - tire monster with enough suspension travel to mimic Baja's more hardcore race trucks.

Four hundred miles strung over a full day of driving can be hard on the body in any vehicle, especially in a small sports car, and all the more so for my long - legged, 6 - foot -2-inch frame.

Unlike the Elise, which was created to replicate the Schuey - does - Silverstone experience, the Tesla is tuned for a grand touring ride, and the compliant springs - bars - and - dampers package means that it could be driven comfortably for hundreds of miles at a time — except, alas, that the batteries would run out of juice before you got nearly that far.

I've driven it a couple hundred miles maintaining about 4000 RPM for hours at a time.

We drive for long hours, nothing in our high beams but two yellow lines and a few hundred hare.

I have on this particular model BMW since it's inception I have driven vehicles for hundreds of thousands of Miles was not one time having it let me down, car is wonderful as a daily driver him when... Read full review

Confirming as much in a 2016 letter to Google, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it agreed with Google that its self - driving car will not have a «driver» in the traditional sense that vehicles have had drivers for the last hundred years or more.