Sentences with phrase «even miles you drive»

Other kinds of donations that can count include donated goods (even a car), cash, and even miles you drive on behalf of a charity.

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(I liked driving the F - PACE so much that I didn't use these very much, even with a few hundred miles on the program.)

Most people don't think much about all the time they spend in their cars driving to sales calls, meetings or even OfficeMax, but those work - related miles add up.

Some have top speeds of 250 km per hour (155 miles per hour), even though no one drives that fast.

Whether it's an overzealous attendance policy or taking employees» frequent flier miles, even a couple of unnecessary rules can drive people crazy.

In the last decade alone, the figure has dropped 17 percent, even with the industry operating an additional 2.7 million trucks and driving an additional 54 billion miles over that time.

Instead of getting in the car, driving to the store sometimes miles away, walking around the shop looking for the item, purchasing it and driving all the way home taking a few hours in the process, we can literally hop on our PC's or tablets and in much less time (minutes) we can achieve the same things, even more.

It's important to settle on a routine that works for everyone and takes several things into consideration, such as both parents» work schedules, your kids» school schedules, their extracurricular activities, and even driving considerations if you live more than 30 miles apart.

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).

A lot of the time parents may not even know that they have been driving along all the while their child has not been buckled for one mile.

Even driving 20 miles to buy anything was not uncommon if you lived in Speculator or Munnsville, (although to be fair Munnsville had a Sears less than 10 miles away in Oneida).

By Martill's reckoning, he had to drive «about a hundred miles» to find even building plaster, a poor prepping substitute.

But with the researchers» approach, sometimes even one drive is enough to reveal the person's destination within a third of a mile or less.

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.

While zipping around Earth several hundred miles above the planet's surface, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano drove a 220 - pound (100 kilograms) rover across a moon - mimicking landscape here at NASA's Ames Research Center, even ordering the robot to deploy a simulated film - based radio telescope antenna.

Even though most people drive pretty reasonably, you always get a few people going 150 + miles per hour.

He's driven for many years and even more miles.

I was cordial but flabbergasted that he didn't even try to hide the fact that he'd driven almost 50 miles just to see me for 10 minutes.

For some reason, the house is also able to haunt people that aren't even on the premises, such as when they are driving in a car miles away, or a far away church, or when they are on the phone with someone from the house.

Stuck in a car on 2,200 mile road trip with one obnoxious person is more than enough, so while Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) laments his misfortune of having to hitch a ride from Atlanta to Los Angeles with the trouble - causing, id - driven wannabe actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis), we have to put up with Ethan and the occasionally violent (in a rage to the point of blackout even), manic - depressive loose cannon that is Peter.

When she learns about a screenplay competition, Wendy completes a 500 - page Star Trek script and becomes determined to enter, even if it means traveling hundreds of miles outside of her sheltered and protected life to submit in person, much to the concern of her big sister (Alice Eve) and therapist (Toni Collette), both of whom are impressed with Wendy's determination and drive.

Teachers can move or drive a few miles to a neighboring district and instantly improve their base pay or even find schools with better resources.

You can «drive» like this for miles, even, potentially across states for as long as there's gas in the tank.

Mine's made a click ever since I replaced a broken drive shaft, and it even does it since a pro garage replaced that same driveshaft some 5 years / 50k miles later, post me breaking the CV joint and them not being able to find a replacement that fit the non-oem driveshaft I fitted years earlier.

And this progress comes even as Americans drove a greater number of miles than ever before.

The nonadjustable, shell - type folding seats are surprisingly comfortable and very supportive, even over drives lasting several hundred miles.

It should be hard to drive 2175 miles in two days, and those two days of driving should be even harder when they're bookended by three days of little sleep, lots of partying, and really loud music, but driving our Four Seasons Kia Cadenza to and from Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama, couldn't have been easier.

We drove the 2015 McLaren 650S over Laureles Grade and back (not far, but far enough), and found it even more poised and supple at civilian speed than we remember from putting a couple hundred miles on the McLaren MP4 - 12C in metropolitan Los Angeles.

I left for the Chevrolet Cruze first drive in Nashville early on a Monday evening, stopping for the evening in Carollton, Kentucky, a bit more than 200 miles from the final destination.

I m pretty shure you don t own or drive a 4C nor other even faster cars in your live, exept maybe in the us with 45 miles an hour.

I will never return here for service again, even if it means driving miles out of my way to the burbs.

The Ram even manages to beat the best in the midsize class — the two - wheel - drive Toyota Tacoma with a 2.7 - liter four - cylinder and a five - speed manual — by three miles per gallon in the highway rating.

I haven't driven the Berlinetta F430 but within a few miles I know that the Spider is an improvement over the 360, even the Challenge Stradale.

Even though I couldn't plug in to recharge at my apartment, I managed to drive about 80 miles over the weekend — once the battery pack's charge was depleted, I simply continued on gasoline power.

Drive not even 200 miles and the worst and most annoying sound screeching from my transmission....

Even with over 20,000 miles sitting on the odometer, the interior remains solid and rattle - free — when you've got a six - hour drive on your hands, the last thing you want to hear the whole time is some annoying squeak.

Even after a week and hundreds of miles of driving, I had a hard time judging the brake response.

Now the problem, it feels to me as if the car is down on power, it seems to be a bit reluctant to accelerate at anything over than a leisurely pace lower down the rev range, and even when the revs pick up it doesn't feel like it once did, I appreciate that it isn't going to drive like new after 157k miles, but this power loss seemed to happen over a fairly short period of time, rather than a gradual decay.

151k miles is a long time for fluid to last, especially in a performance car that's probably been driven hard, so I would suspect fluid even more.

Even though I drove the same 44 - mile commute with a similar driving style, I only used up 50 miles of range this time.

Even with over 200k miles I feel completely comfortable driving it across the country.

Mercedes - Benz also says that the car's Airmatic air suspension has been adapted to deal with the extra weight of the protection modifications, and special run - flat tires that can drive up to 19 miles even when damaged are standard.

Waiting for the engine to warm up was no problem — every M3 I've driven has restricted rpm until the engine was warm — but the transmission was stiff and notchy in first and second gear for several miles, even with the clutch firmly planted on the floor.

I had just finished a 60 - hour workweek and was exhausted, so I was not looking forward to my impending 240 - mile drive on Friday evening.

The soft - top folds down in 15sec, and even comes with a fun «openometer», telling you how many of your miles of driving have been sans roof.

I then drove 170 miles with no visible issue, even stopped and idled for about half an hour in the middle, and about a mile before my house I smelled the burning smell again and the coolant temp spiked very suddenly.

Once it launches later this year, up to 20 competitors will drive race - prepped Model S P100Ds through three qualifying rounds, a 37 - mile (60 km) day race, with a second race that evening over the same distance.

But I'm still not sick of the 2015 Jaguar F - Type, even after all those miles of freeway driving.

«I drove the Acura for a week, and it was quiet, comfortable, and rattle - free — even with more than 23,000 miles on it,» senior editor David Zenlea said.

I still get complements on its design and handling and I absolutely love the drive and sound, even with 97,000 miles it had no... Read full review