Sentences with phrase «feet less than a mile»

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It will travel at 1,451 miles per hour (10 % faster than Concorde), and will fly at around 60,000 feet — higher than any other aircraft has flown, according to The Daily Mail, resulting in a quieter, less turbulent experience.

The swim workout was the hardest physical thing I've ever done, and I once rode a 100 - mile Gran Fondo, with four mountains and 11,000 total feet of climbing, less than five months after I had a heart attack.

The following analogy might help: Cover the entire North American continent in dimes all the way up to the moon, a height of about 239,000 miles (In comparison, the money to pay for the U.S. federal government debt would cover one square mile less than two feet deep with dimes.).

He can match many a sprinter in sheer speed of foot and he can run five miles in less than 25 minutes.

Flatlanders race March 23 will be limited to skiers living below 3,000 feet, at least 200 miles from a lift and who have skied less than 21 days a year.

And is it really a less natural way to augment my life than flying 38,000 feet above the planet at 500 miles per hour?

But that and other far - fetched ideas may inspire the ambitious projects necessary to catch a glimpse of the core — a place just 3,950 miles below our feet and yet, in many ways, less accessible than the edge of the visible universe, 13.8 billion light - years away.

By the time the teenagers turned to head back, just a few feet from the summit, the wind was gusting at up to 94 miles an hour, visibility was less than 10 feet, and the temperature had fallen below zero.

The landslide, from top to bottom, fell 2,790 vertical feet, but its runout — the distance the slide traveled — was almost 10,072 feet, or just less than two miles.

The most recent such study, published in Environmental Science & Technology, finds that at least 6,900 oil and gas wells in the U.S. were fracked less than a mile (5,280 feet) from the surface, and at least 2,600 wells were fracked at depths shallower than 3,000 feet, some as shallow as 100 feet.

As of March 24, 2016, the program had counted 14,020 near - Earth asteroids, with diameters ranging from less than 30 meters (98 feet) to larger than 1 kilometer (0.6 mile).

Their sizes range anywhere from 33 feet (10 meters) in diameter to less than 620 miles (1,000 kilometers).

I left the pedicure salon, started my car and drove less than 3 miles to pick up something from the store, when I stepped out of my car my feet were black... and I don't meant just from dirt, It looked like someone dumped a bucket of black paint on me from shins down.

I left the pedicure salon, started my car and drove less than 3 miles to pick up something from the store, when I stepped out of my car my feet were black... and I don't meant just from dirt, It...

That's a long way from your average Prius, to be sure, and yet driven with a less - than - leaden right foot you should be able to coax up to 31 miles of electric - only range from the car.

I tried it for less than a mile before my lead foot got frustrated and I went back into sport.

As for just how quick will the 61 - liter gas tank will deplete under a heavy foot's command, we did it in less than 100 miles of beautiful public French B - roads.

Performance targets for the all - new 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 include a 0 — 60 mph time in the low 5 - second range, 0 — 100 — 0 mph in less than 17 seconds, a 1/4 - mile elapsed time of less than 14 seconds, 60 — 0 mph braking distance of approximately 100 feet, and a skid pad performance of 0.88 g.

The less expensive variant will pack a 133 - horsepower, 291 - pound - foot electric motor mated to a 39.2 - kWh lithium ion battery, which Hyundai estimates will provide for 186 miles of range by European measurements (US EPA figures trend lower), which is better than the 2018 Nissan Leaf.

Between the money paid for the property and the new library space, the cost came out to $ 211 per buildable square foot — less than the $ 270 average for development sites in north Brooklyn and $ 311 for land sales within a two - mile radius in the last two years, according to the study.

Beyond your 4800 square foot private estate, you're just a few minutes by car from Country Line Beach, Point Sand Dune, and Sandy Hill, while El Matador Beach and Lechuza Beach are less than ten miles away.

Intricate marine waterways and fresh wetlands nearly bisect the island and several portages of less than 5 miles allow one to cross the entire island on foot.

Elevations range from 1,100 feet (340 m) at the southwest end along Cedar Creek to 4,083 feet (1,244 m), less than three miles away at the top Red Mountain.

The incline starts at 6,600 feet and climbs over 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

To better accommodate their trading, it is believed that the Mayans dug a narrow channel, less than a mile long and no wider than a few feet, at the northern most tip of the Caye.

Nestled on 400 feet of private beach, this 5 - acre property is less than a mile from the famous Belizean Reef — the world's second largest barrier reef.

Departing from the marina, in less than 25 minutes you'll be 1.5 to 5 miles (2.4 - 8 km) from shore in waters 6,000 feet (1,820 meters) deep.

This ride is about 64 miles with less than 1,000 feet of elevation gain.

Though it's tempting to stay at the villa from sunrise to sunset — both of which can be viewed from the terrace — the village and nearest beach are both less than a quarter - mile away on foot.

The exhibition will be staged at the defunct, 7,500 square - foot Giant Motors: Auto Body & Paint Shop (1750 Bay Road, Miami Beach), less than one mile away from the Miami Beach Convention Center.

Local effects at night due to site relocation are quite variable, usually negative, with a few having ASOS minimum temperatures more than 1 °F cooler than the previous location even though the location change was less than one mile horizontally and 100 feet vertically..

Most of the Nation Less Than Three Feet Above Sea Level To put all of this in perspective, Tuvalu has a population of about 12,000 people (only Vatican City and Nauru have fewer people) and has a total land mass of just 10 square miles in size, spread out over several islands.

«One in every 10 people on the planet lives in an extremely vulnerable zone within 60 miles of a coastline and less than 33 feet above sea level, and more people seem to be heading in that direction.

Operators must maintain a speed of less than five miles per hour when operating a PDF within 200 feet of shore, a dock, a swimming area or another person or vessel in the water.

When Menin Development Cos. completed the 350,000 - square - foot property in 2005, the presence of the Gardens Mall, a 1.4 - million - square - foot regional mall, less than a mile away wasn't seen as a problem.