Sentences with phrase «for about a kilometer»

«After I've trekked for about a kilometer, I saw someone to whom I cried for help.

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Now imagine the same information cloaked in the trappings of a great story, «a story about a family in South America that is being affected by changes in the global economy — a story about the father going to work in a foreign country to earn enough for the family, and the mother having to drive 100 kilometers for health care.»

The distance between Stockholm and Helsinki is about 300 miles, and doing the math, the figure points to about $ 36.7 million cost per kilometer or about $ 64 million for every mile.

Barreling across the desert straightaway, air horns no doubt at the ready, Miller and Lange's Liberty Belle broke just about every record for such behemoths: in seven runs they smashed various standing - start and flying - start marks at a quarter mile, a half kilometer, a full kilometer and a mile — 14 in all, each of which has been certified by the U.S. Auto Club as a national record.

Observations of supernovas suggest that the universe is expanding at 73 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (about 3.3 million light - years).

For example, a 6 - metric - ton Tyrannosaurus rex's top speed may have been about 27 kilometers per hour (slightly more than an average human's running speed but nowhere near Jamaican sprinter and world record holder Usain Bolt's), they estimate.

The rocket headed into geosynchronous orbit — about 35,000 kilometers above Earth's surface — to deliver a communications satellite for Luxembourg - based SES.

Such a voyage is a straight shot westward and would take about 3 weeks of daytime sailing at typical Viking ship speeds (which, for the uninformed, is about 11 kilometers per hour).

For about 10 kilometers, the river passes through the Hobet 21 surface mining complex, which has been active since the 1970s and is among the largest in the Appalachian coalfields.

Those pictures, some of which are sharp enough to spot features 10 centimeters across, were taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which has been orbiting the comet (seen here in July from a distance of about 160 kilometers) for more than a year now.

Fossils of the other new species, found in rocks of a similar age a few dozen kilometers away, suggest that creature — dubbed Vilevolodon, roughly from the Latin for «toothed glider» — was about as large as a midsized mouse.

Drawing on his data from the Hubble observations, Li estimates that the nucleus — the solid body of the comet itself — is no more than about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) across, smaller than what many astronomers initially expected for such an energetic comet.

For instance, the melt starts about 182 kilometers under South Africa and about 163 kilometers under Antarctica.

Nationally, the 10 - kilometer - per - decade velocity for land use is about 10 times slower than the climate velocity of about 100 kilometers per decade.

(For comparison, the Mount St. Helens disaster discharged about 1 cubic kilometer.)

«For the first time, we have used a geophysical method to determine the internal structure of Enceladus, and the data suggest that indeed there is a large, possibly regional ocean about 50 kilometers below the surface of the south pole,» says David Stevenson, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetary bodies.

The larger Białowieża Forest, which extends beyond the national park and covers about 1500 square kilometers, has been protected for more than 600 years.

In the city of Rio de Janeiro, the project is treating about 150 square kilometers over the course of two years and aims to protect 2.5 million city - dwellers for years to come.

For the most part, today's subducting slabs can only sink so far, to about 670 kilometers below the surface, before the mantle's makeup turns from a honey - like consistency, to that of paste — too dense for most slabs to penetrate furthFor the most part, today's subducting slabs can only sink so far, to about 670 kilometers below the surface, before the mantle's makeup turns from a honey - like consistency, to that of paste — too dense for most slabs to penetrate furthfor most slabs to penetrate further.

Before 1750, most Americans found a spouse within six miles (10 kilometers) of where they were born, but for those born in 1950, that distance had stretched to about 60 miles (100 kilometers), the researchers found.

We don't hear too much about natural dust, the kind that the winds loft from deserts and dry lakebeds into the air and carries for hundreds of kilometers, crossing oceans and continents, but we should.

The new, high - resolution map of the mantle — the hot rock below Earth's crust but above the planet's iron core — not only shows these connections for many hotspots on the planet, but reveals that below about 1,000 kilometers the plumes are between 600 and 1,000 kilometers across, up to five times wider than geophysicists thought.

Railway tariffs cost about 0.15 yuan per metric ton for each kilometer, less than half the cost of around 0.35 yuan by truck, according to data from the China Coal Transport and Distribution Association.

Martin Dokulil of the Institute for Limnology at the University of Innsbruck studied data from nine lakes larger than 10 square kilometers, or about 2,500 acres.

There were things we didn't know, for example how huts in south Tyrol looked like 5000 years ago, but we did know how huts looked like near Lake Constance [about 300 kilometers away] at that time.

The rupture extended about 180 kilometers, by far the longest rupture for any deep earthquake recorded, Lay said.

«For a period of several weeks, wide areas of the Arctic were covered by polar stratospheric clouds between about 14 and 26 kilometers height.

Messick was an undergraduate student in physics studying antibiotic resistance at the University of Washington in Seattle, about 320 kilometers away from LIGO's installation in Hanford, Washington, when he arranged a field trip to the detector for his chapter of the Society of Physics Students.

Although astronomer David Jewitt of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii thinks Rabinowitz has done a good job counting the big asteroids, he is more worried about the hundreds of thousands of rocks smaller than 1 kilometer but larger than 100 meters.

The new measurement indicates that distantly separated galaxies are spreading apart at about 70 kilometers per second for each megaparsec between them.

The country had already been on edge following the volcano's initial eruption this past weekend, spewing hot ash, gas and smoke into the air for several days, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,200 residents and leading to the death of a 92 - year - old woman who suffered a heart attack aboard a navy boat as she was being taken to Puerto Montt, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of the volcano.

For over three years, the scientists have been collecting data on the flight of neutrinos — those mysterious, nearly massless particles that can travel through anything at immense speed — originating in the SPS accelerator at CERN, near Geneva, and traveling underground all the way to Gran Sasso, 731 kilometers (about 450 miles) away.

Named for a god of the Rapa Nui culture of Easter Island, Makemake (artist's concept, above) orbits in the frigid realm far beyond Pluto and was about 7.7 billion kilometers from Earth when the brief eclipse occurred.

The clinic, run by non-governmental organizations under the oversight of the Sierra Leone health ministry, provided clinical care for 603 of the 661 survivors of Ebola living in the Port Loko district, about 45 kilometers east of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.

Its speed relative to the solar system (about 20 kilometers per second) also seems rather slow for any interstellar probe, which presumably would cruise at higher speeds for faster trips between stars.

Supernova measurements indicate that distant galaxies are separating from one another by 73 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (about 3.3 million light - years) of distance between them.

Rosetta is now about 163 million kilometers from the comet and just under 3 years from rendezvous, scientists at the Max Planck institute for Solar System Research reported today.

Digby Race of the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation, in Alice Springs and The Australian National University, in Canberra and colleagues from other universities, report that there is great potential for 200,000 people who live in Australia's vast desert area which covers about 3.6 million square kilometers.

Without the ice sheet that is now weighing down Greenland's terrain, a river in the canyon would, on average, drop about 30 centimeters for every kilometer it flowed seaward, the team estimates.

They randomly chose homes about 2 kilometers apart for the presence of adult mosquitoes and developing immature stages in water - filled containers.

In comparison, the surface oil from the Deepwater Horizon well covered about 11,200 square kilometers and persisted for months, Subramaniam said.

For instance, the large «Sunset Amphitheater» on the volcano's western face contains about 1.5 cubic kilometers of weak rock, rivaling the size of the debris flow 5600 years ago.

That feature — in which the crust thickness drops from 30 to about 10 miles (50 to 20 kilometers) over a large area that is the most visible feature on Mars — has been known to astronomers for more than 30 years and was long suspected to be due to an asteroid impact that flung most of the crust out the area.

For over 20 years, Smith and his fellow researchers have studied animals living on the abyssal plain at Station M — a deep - sea research site about 220 kilometers (140 miles) off the Central California coast.

For babies born to moms living within one to three kilometers away from a site, the chance of being underweight at birth was about 8 percent greater than for babies of the more distant moms, Currie saFor babies born to moms living within one to three kilometers away from a site, the chance of being underweight at birth was about 8 percent greater than for babies of the more distant moms, Currie safor babies of the more distant moms, Currie says.

«Going into deeper water is not something we're comfortable doing yet,» says Jim Lanard a spokesperson for Bluewater Wind, a company that has proposed a wind park 13.2 miles (21.2 kilometers) from the Delaware shore that will employ monopiles to depths of about 75 feet (23 meters).

The spacecraft, which launched in 2016, swung back by Earth on September 22 for a quick gravity assist on its way to Bennu, a carbon - rich asteroid that comes within about 300,000 kilometers of Earth every six years (SN Online: 9/8/16).

Measurements based on exploding stars suggest that distant galaxies are speeding away from each other at 73 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (about 3.3 million light - years) of space between them.

For one week out of every six, Still left his wife and toddler, taking a minibus to the Karoo Plateau, about 20 kilometers from the nearest village and nearly 500 kilometers from Cape Town.

Electricity produced by a fuel cell by combining hydrogen and oxygen powered an electric motor to turn the two - seat test glider's propeller and enabled it to fly for roughly 20 minutes at 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) at about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) above sea level.