Sentences with phrase «few dozen miles»

Nigel is behind the wheel as we leave, enjoying his first few dozen miles at the helm of the F - Type.

Anyone griping abut the intensity forecast for Irene simply has no case, in that these forecasts are always portrayed as conditional and history shows just how much small shifts in conditions in the last few dozen miles offshore can make or break a tropical cyclone.

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).

Hillary Clinton has not spoken out in a political race since leaving the State Department (although there are relatively few this year), and the New York race is taking place a few dozen miles from the couple's Chappaqua home.

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.

The seating position does offer good visibility when driving around town, and after a few dozen miles it seems almost normal.

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

I had the opportunity, with one other reporter, to accompany scientists to a research camp set up on the drifting sea ice a few dozen miles from the point at which everything else is south.

The 25 - minute documentary outlines how this Caribbean island nation, tucked a few dozen miles from the South American coast and long a refining hub for Venezuelan oil, is struggling to expand tourism but do so without degrading a prime asset drawing visitors — its coral reefs.

The song took on new meaning for me in 2003, when I accompanied a team of climate and ocean researchers on their annual expedition aimed at studying changes in the Arctic Ocean beneath the shifting sea ice just a few dozen miles from the North Pole.

I start by noting some of the unnerving situations I've been in while reporting about climate change and related issues — sitting with a murderous cattle rancher on his porch deep in the Amazon rain forest, camping on cracking sea ice floating on the 14,000 - foot - deep Arctic Ocean a few dozen miles from the North Pole.

The autonomous camera that took these images was placed on the ice a few dozen miles from the North Pole in early spring, but has since drifted hundreds of miles.

They can recharge a Tesla Roadster in about 3.5 hours (though that's for a full charge — if you only need to charge a few dozen miles to get back home where you can plug overnight, you could do it more quickly).

Residents of this growing Texas burg get the benefits of a unique community culture with proximity to the bright lights of the «Live Music Capital of the World» a few dozen miles to the north.