Sentences with phrase «few long car»

Bob has taken a few long car trips with me, and he couldn't be more gracious!

laughing We've been listening to all the comedy stations on XM Radio during our past few long car rides.

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The company, which manufactures parts for the automotive sector — like the foam used for safety components, car seats and noise reduction — has existed only a few years longer than he's been working there.

Even if few doubt Musk's vision, there's a long way to go in commercializing the Model S. Tesla first began shipping the car in June and expects to deliver about 3,200 this year, well short of its target of 5,000 cars.

After a week - long standoff with regulators last December when Uber argued that its cars do not meet the state's definition of an autonomous vehicle because they require constant monitoring by a person, Uber moved its self - driving cars from San Francisco to Arizona, a state with fewer regulations for autonomous vehicles.

Jay, if prayer worked, then the prayerful would have less disease, live longer, have fewer divorces, miscarriages, children with birth defects, car accidents, kids on drugs, etc, etc, etc..

Our family loves these muffins and I like to keep a few in the freezer to grab on my way out the door so the kids have a healthy snack to enjoy on long car trips or busy mornings out.

Back around 1900, when the new Trans - Siberian Railroad began long - distance passenger service, a few of the first - class dining cars and station buffets were sumptuous indeed, serving gourmet dishes, fine wines, and French brandies to well - heeled customers.

The few spectators — mostly friends of those behind the wheel and erstwhile drivers who will lapse morosely into long descriptions of what exactly has kept their car in the shop this week with little provocation — hang around the starting line in twos and threes, arms crossed.

Clearly the Indy racers had learned a few tricks from their Southern stock - car cousins in NASCAR, who have long since found ways around similar power restrictions.

There are a few studies indicating that babies, especially premature but also some full - term babies, may have some difficulties breathing if kept in an infant car seat for too long.

Some mums use them for long car journeys or for going out when their children are in the middle of the training process and are still having quite a few accidents.

I wondered how she did during labor, if she found a midwife closer who as able to illegally deliver her child, if she had to ride in the car for those long hours to get here, or if she stayed in a hotel near the midwife during those last few weeks.

Car seats have come a long way in the last few years and can accommodate a wider range of ages and sizes.

If you are going on a relatively long car trip, buy a few new toys ahead of time so you have a backup plan when all the usual toys fail to keep your toddler happy.

I love this post, so many moms look at me like I'm crazy but really after the first few months I ditch the diaper bag, or pack one specifically to leave in the car just in case I'm out longer than anticipated.

Keep some books in the car and always have a few handy in your bag for long visits to the doctor or lines at the post office.

Magazine ran a campaign trying to get them banned a few years ago, and although they are still available, the two biggest car seat manufacturers, Maxi - Cosi and Britax, no longer produce them.

Maybe long car rides when they're finally trained, but who wants to sit in these bricks while strapped into a car seat for a few hours?

My 7 year old daughter has a few friends her age that are no longer in car seats or boosters, so she started complaining about having to use a booster seat when we travel.

In the past few days, he's achieved the communications equivalent of breaking his enemy's lines (right after our talk today, a CNN car whisked him off to an interview), but it only came at the end of long months of months of bombarding the world with blog posts, tweets and emails.

9,000 fewer potholes will be filled, child care co-payments will increase, police cars will stay on the road longer and prisoners will be fed fewer slices of bread.

Researchers have installed a molecular engine into a «car» just a few billionths of a metre long.

The model found that long - term, less easily reversed behavioral changes, such as insulating homes or purchasing hybrid cars, had by far the most impact in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and thus reducing climate change, versus more short - term adjustments, such as adjusting thermostats or driving fewer miles.

Add a few spoonfuls to club soda before your long car ride and you should be able to ward off «the queasies.»

Giving up so many things due to fear of causing more pain: planting flowers, playing the guitar, watching a movie comfortably, driving a car longer than a few minutes, surfing the Web, volunteering at my kids schools.

Taking a few detox teabags with you when you travel is also a good way to keep things moving when the stress of travel, changing of time zones, and sitting for long periods on airplanes or in cars can throw bathroom habits off schedule.

Baby girl will be here in just a few months, and one of the things on our long to - do list is to buy a new car!

We couldn't resist hopping out to snap a few pictures when we saw it from the car while on our little Long Island adventure.

They're in the midst of modern South Africa, Johannesburg is only a few hours away by car, and the Xhosa are stubbornly clinging to ancient tribal traditions in a time and society where they may no longer have a place.

This is particularly important because it's otherwise hard to familiarise yourself to your car the game lacks a qualifying mode, each race is only a few laps long and you change cars each six races or so.

Consumers have one other advantage: Americans are keeping their cars longer, and that means fewer total buyers with lots of new vehicles to choose from.

It also went a long way in my benefit when I had to answer for two tickets at the scene — Not guilty on both, only because I could tell the courts everything about the experience, where I was, how many cars were on the road, how I had passed two police cars a few miles up the road, etc, etc..

The great advantage is no one much cares when you come or go or what you do as long as you sell a few cars now and then.

This car is performing at this stage as any 16 yr old car would: It has a few flaws inside and out, but otherwise runs like a top as long as I do regular maintenance on it.

Now, new Volt models will shut off after a few minutes if the fob is no longer in the car.

And when we say teensy, we mean it: the iQ may be 14.0 inches longer than a smart fortwo, but it's 19.5 inches shorter in length than a Fiat 500 and 26.5 inches shorter than a MINI Cooper — which was the smallest car sold in America only a few years ago.

On the other hand, if you only need a car for a few hours, Hyundai is teaming up with WaiveCar to allow users to grab a car for free, as long as you don't mind driving around a rolling advertisement.

Texas - based Hennessey Performance has long been celebrated for extracting big power from American muscle - cars, but in the last few years it has also become famous for a Veyron - trumping Lotus - based supercar.

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In Belgium it's a few hundred dollars to race a car, but here for $ 30 I can take it to Bremerton or Seattle to the racetrack and go as fast as I can go in the quarter - mile all day long.

Sure, we would love for the GT - R to shed a few pounds, OK a bunch, but we still hop on the Boeing 747 for the long flight back to the States knowing that we have just driven one of the best cars to come out in a long time.

Chevrolet says a full charge on 240 takes about 4.5 hours, which is substantially quicker than the old car versus as much as 13 hours at 120 volts, which is a few hours longer than for the old car.

Most cars made in the last few decades are actually pretty reliable and as long as you keep on top of maintenance a 5 year old car shouldn't be any more risky than brand new one, especially if it a model with an established record for reliability.

The plan is to keep the SportWagen TDI in our long - term fleet for a few years, assuming VW doesn't buy back and scrap our car if a fix to make it emissions - legal doesn't pan out.

(Just in time, as it turned out, for the few remaining diesel passenger cars on the market to no longer be able to satisfy emissions regulations — but that's another story).

Long, open stretches of two - lane or freeway remain the Continental GT's favorite playgrounds, however, because that's when you really unleash all that torque and enter Bentley - Land, where speed and serenity combine in a way that you experience in few other cars.

The only things I found a bit off - putting about this test car were the blue interior (which clashes a bit with the black buttons on the center stack) and the clutch (which seemed too heavy and long upon first impression but became perfectly familiar after a few gearchanges).

A few months ago my car fan became very noisy after a long journey.

It's actually a 5.5 - litre — the men at Benz, like their rivals at BMW, have long since binned any truth in badgery — and it turns out a hearty 382bhp, which is more than the badass AMG cars had a few years ago.