Sentences with phrase «flight took about»

The flight takes about three hours; the resort is just minutes from the airport.

Fly to Alice Springs or Ayers Rock airport (direct flights take about three hours from Sydney).

The flight takes about 50 minutes.

Rio de Janeiro has a direct flights to Salvador de Bahia and the flight takes about 2 hours, between Rio and Bahia there is one hour difference in time zone.

The 8,450 mile flight takes about 17 hours depending on winds.

Not exact matches

You can use the room for about twenty minutes, and you can take one shower per flight.

When you're at the tail - end of a long - haul business flight, you probably start dreaming about taking a hot shower and washing off the grime that has accumulated after hours on a plane.

The flight eventually took off with a different crew the next morning after about 250 passengers spent the night at hotels.

(My suggestion is Justin Cronin's surprisingly well written and totally addictive vampire thriller The Passage, which once made a transatlantic flight I took feel about 20 minutes long.)

Even better, they play music tied to the flight that is actually about to take off.

Still, when flights at Atlanta were grounded for most of one day last spring, it took Delta five days — and about 4,000 canceled flights — before it fully recovered.

While packing for a short - haul weekend away can be simple, what about taking a a small suitcase on a long haul flight?

Additionally, you can tune into Build 2013 to learn more about how Microsoft is helping the next generation of smart companies take flight.

At the same time, investors can take it upon themselves to be proactive about tracking mini flash crashes in equity markets, and to integrate technical safeguards to moderate cross-market flight to safety, when instances of abnormal instability arise.

With all these innovative leaders, you can hear about the best practices to optimization innovation across different forms of industry, how material science is changing the world of innovation, and how innovation takes flight into the new space economy.

In January, about 250 flights took off from the U.S. to Cuba and 193 Cuba - bound planes flew last month, according to industry - data tracker MasFlight.

Once the ten - minute pleasantries are done with (wives, kids, colleagues, flight, book recommendations), he'll be telling me about the shower gel in the hotel, or that brand of jacket taking over Italy, his mate's pet insurance or what he learned about eBay's competitors in Africa.

In my view, Reno's concern about the flight from politics deserves to be taken very seriously.

Jesus is a welcome guest at my table and is invited along as a flying companion — I think he does just fine at taking great leaps and isn't too concerned about making sure a rigid flight plan is followed.

Just because you can't prove that wings won't sprout from my but, doesn't mean that I am about to take flight.

After about 5 minutes of flying to God - knows - where, the pilot finally started talking to us in that weird, overly - casual tone pilots always take when announcing a flight ETA or informing passengers of their impending death.

I lay awake at night when I should have been getting desperately needed sleep thinking about the plane ticket that had my name on it — the ticket for the flight that would take all three of us back to Laos.

Yet it also took me forever to realize it... True also about the clueless looks of flight attendants «are you SURE you're refusing the food tray???».

Then on Sunday, my girlfriends took me to brunch at Petite Provence and we sipped mimosa flights, ate crepes, croissants, and French baked eggs and talked and laughed about anything and everything.

Any flight over 8 hours take me about 24 hours to recover from.

It costs roughly the same amount (2,044 pounds) to take in the classico and about seven other huge games all over Europe throughout the season (including flights and accomodation).

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

The Tigers have seen a glimmer of hope about staying up in the top flight since Marco Silva took over as boss but they are still embroiled in a tight scrap for survival.

This weekend is all about taking flight!

I can't advocate posting about this flight faux pas on Facebook, but it does reinforce that it's only a matter of time before taking a sick child out of the house is unavoidable.

It took me a while to write about this because Amanda and I have been doing a bit of «research» (ie intentionally pinching fingers in armrest hinges) on the myriad of flights we've taken over the past few months.

The flight attendant took Brenna on a «walk about» through the plane where she got to charm everyone.

When my daughter was about 12 months old we went on a long summer trip and took quite a few plane flights.

If you are worried about an altercation with the flight attendant or the gate staff allowing you to bring your car seat on board, take with you a printed letter that clearly states that your car seat is approved.

The only issue with that is sometimes you get a flight attendant who will make you take them out for take off and landing — I find that to happen about 50 % of the time.

The lawyer said nothing about charges that Grant took bribes and had sex with a prostitute during a free flight to the Super Bowl on a private jet.

The threat that the Families of Continental Flight 3407 worried about finally started to take shape, as a key senator — John Thune, a South Dakota Republican — said he would propose changes to the pilot experience requirements that the families fought to get enacted into law seven years ago.

David Cameron failed to tell the Electoral Commission about three free flights taken during his own leadership campaign, although they were registered with the Commons register of members» interests.

«So, if somebody of Pastor Adeboye's calibre can take six - hour flight and go to see President Buhari and, within 48 hours, Buhari came home, then it is speaking a different thing about what some people are saying that Buhari is a religious bigot.

An employee for the state Council on the Arts has been suspended after being kicked off a Delta flight about to take off from JFK International Airport to Syracuse.

In Portugal train services are down to ten per cent, with 160 flights cancelled and protests taking place in about 40 Portuguese towns and cities.

David Cameron does not, it is safe to assume, have strong views about the ideal number of cabin crew members it takes to staff a transatlantic flight.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

Once scientists began studying flying squirrels in the lab, it didn't take long to discover that there is nothing passive or constant about the species» flight.

Lehto's detailed chronology of «individual lift devices» is on the dry side, but you learn the sober truth about why these machines never took off: Flight times were measured in seconds rather than minutes; the devices often cost as much as a luxury car; and there was no elegant solution for a malfunctioning jetpack in midair.

It took me only about 30 minutes to learn how to drive my galvanic skin response levels at will; after that I found myself levitating virtual balls, opening massive oaken doors, and controlling the flight patterns of birds with relative ease.

The image above, taken during a high - priority flight that IceBridge carried on Aug. 29, shows Helheim Glacier, with its characteristic wishbone - shaped channels, as seen from about 20,000 feet in the sky.

With NASA's support, McCandliss and his rocketry team at Johns Hopkins took about six years through early 2013 to build the $ 3.2 million telescope launched on this flight.

So what was special yesterday about the runways of New York City's John F. Kennedy airport that drew over 150 diamondback terrapin turtles to cross its dangerous runways to lay their eggs, delaying flights for hours while wildlife workers took them home?

Debates about the mechanisms driving the shocks will take time to settle, says Chandra project scientist Martin Weisskopf of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.