Sentences with phrase «get miles of»

If I lived full - time on a beach I'm sure I could get miles of use out of this skirt.

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Cruise control is not just the easiest way to make sure you don't get a ticket — I routinely set mine 6 or 7 miles an hour over the speed limit, and (knock on a huge piece of wood) can't remember the last time I got a speeding ticket — but it's also the courteous move, especially on the interstate.

This involves a pair of SEAL divers swimming two miles underwater, «using nothing but a depth gauge and a compass to get to their target.»

I don't really believe that any startup should get so far out ahead of themselves that they're «a mile wide and an inch deep,» because there are huge execution risks in terms of support and maintaining effective connections to your customers.

Owners just love getting a text with a picture of their horse content in an overnight stall hundreds of miles away with a message saying all is well.»

He gets his daily dose of exercise by walking the five miles from his home to Twitter headquarters while listening to audiobooks and podcasts.

As part of United's crisis management, the airline said late Wednesday that all passengers on Sunday's United Express Flight 3411 are getting reimbursement equal to the cost of their tickets, which can be taken in cash, travel credits, or miles.

The booster pushes the top of the rocket (including the payload) about 40 miles into the sky, then detaches, lands back on the surface, and gets refurbished — a clever method that saves the company millions per mission.

In 2001, European cars of all sorts were getting 7 % fewer miles per gallon on the road than they demonstrated on the dynamometer.

«You should be able to get from Westwood to LAX in 5 - 6 minutes,» Musk says of the approximate 10 - mile journey.

With that status he gets: another year of upgrades, free liquor, waived bag frees, the ability to skip security lines and double miles on all his flights.

Because of the way frequent flyer programs work, you can usually get a lot more value from a lot fewer miles than credit card points.

Even with its small size, the 89 - room Villa has an attractive all - inclusive package — a compact but still luxurious version of what you get at many of the mega-sized resorts several miles north, out of town.

Someone who has racked up thousands of miles with an airline gets to skip the lines, enjoy the lounge and check baggage for free.

Working out of a dozen corrugated - metal buildings in a dismal windblown patch of desert in Mojave, 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, it has rolled out 26 new types of manned aircraft in 30 years, many of them rule - breaking and innovative; most big aerospace contractors, by contrast, struggle to get a single new aircraft out in an entire decade.

Why it's hot: One square mile of boutiques and condos, Hoboken is just across the Hudson River from New York City and boasts a 2,221 member - strong N.J. Tech Meetup that gets together monthly.

Old school tales of trudging five miles through the snow to get to class may give way to accounts of glitchy laptops and faulty interactive whiteboards.

Estimates range from as low as $ 8 billion to as much as $ 67 billion or more, depending on whom you ask and the number of miles of wall that get built.

Emily Hall had just arrived at the research center on Summerland Key, a tiny barrier island 40 miles off the southern tip of mainland Florida, when she got the bad news.

writer said the Variant X.S.R. shoes have the «cushioning and support to [help you] get the most out of every mile.»

For example, this month, while I was on a 544 mile bike ride through Colorado, I got an email from a team member with five questions he needed answered by the end of the week.

«The miles people currently walk to fetch water, even fetch dirty water, is time and energy spent that could be spent otherwise — to get educated, to take care of children, to earn money,» says Hendriksen.

For instance, the company will send subscribers who run a certain number of miles each week items that are also based on the data it gleans from more regular customers as well as on e-commerce data such as what is bought more frequently and gets top reviews.

Lastly, when you hire veterans, be prepared to have employees who work hard, are willing to go the extra mile and get along well with a diverse group of people.

When the tap water gets cloudy, she drives around to the nine gas well pads within a mile of her farm, writing down which ones have trucks and men working.

When running the last five miles of an ironman while your legs are cramping so badly that you can see the muscles knotting in your legs between each step, or diving a 3,000 - foot shelf, at night and in the dark, while someone accidentally kicks off your mask leaving you temporarily blind, getting into and staying in your flow state is not just helpful, it can be lifesaving.

Standard buses today get about 2 - 4 miles per gallon, but Proterra says its buses get more than 20 miles per gallon, allegedly saving transit operators about $ 50,000 of fuel per year.

Unlike the Capital One card, however, the Arrival Plus lets you get the equivalent of 2 percent cash back in miles.

The goal is to get batteries to power a car of average cost on a 500 - mile trip.

Every time 9 - 11 is dispatched for a cardiac arrest case, it informs users of the app who are within a quarter - mile radius of the event in the hopes that they may be able to get there first.

«So instead of paying $ 2,000 for a ticket, you can use your miles to get it for just some taxes and fees, which can be around $ 100 depending on where you're going and what airline you're on.»

Fat Envelopes» advice is based on the answers to 45 questions Hofmeister posed to 55 MBAs on a 12,000 - mile road trip around the U.S. «I wanted to find out how they got in, and what their struggles could teach a new generation of applicants,» he says.

Go to any number of Prius forums and you can see how, like any enthusiastic World of Warcraft gamer, Prius drivers are a tight - knit community, constantly sharing tips and tricks with each other in the hopes of getting to that next level — 70 miles per gallon or 700 miles on a single tank of gas.

,» he mused, before continuing, «we work on it, we work on it, and nope... The real problem is that it's so power - inefficient it would get about a quarter of a mile per gallon.

The larger battery gets 300 miles of range at an average of 55 mph, Tesla says.

We want it to be as easy and convenient, to get big, bulky, hard - to - handle stuff delivered hundreds of miles, as it is to get a sandwich delivered down the street,» Gorlin told me.

Compare that with the F - 150 EcoBoost, which starts at almost half the price of the Raptor and gets an EPA - estimated 19 miles per gallon in the city and 25 miles per gallon on the highway.

The ZBoard 2 is a motorized skateboard with a range of 16 miles that can get you to the office at speeds up to 20 MPH.

In fact, Napoleon Hill, one of my mentors, said that going the extra mile is the one principle you must follow if you want to write your own price tag and be sure of getting it.

Complementary research from academics Xavier Drèze and Joseph C. Nunes conclusively shows that airline miles incentivize customers even when they are meaningless (taking into account that 90 percent of airline miles never get used, they are essentially meaningless).

FUEL ECONOMY - Diesels can get up to 30 percent more miles per gallon of fuel than similar gas powered cars and can be more economical than gasoline - electric hybrids.

If you spend $ 4500 in the first 90 days of opening up you account you get a 50,000 - mile bonus, which is approximately $ 500 cash bonus.

You will get a bonus of 10 % on United MileagePlus redemptions, so 200,000 Marriott points would get you 7 free nights & 55,000 United MileagePlus miles.

Bootstrap ecommerce: Not to get too philosophical here, but the quote about a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step sums up the approach to shipping for new ecommerce store owners.

The value of getting 7 free hotel nights and miles to get you there seems like a potentially good UR redemption.

In the way that we know that a car pulling up behind a stopped garbage truck is probably going to change lanes to get around it, having been built with 700,000 miles of driving data has helped the Google algorithm to understand that the car is likely to do such a thing.

This Discover It has a similar rewards structure to the Venture card: you can redeem miles for travel statement credit (at a rate of 1 cent per mile), meaning you'll get a flat rewards rate of 3 % the first year and 1.5 % each year after that.

For many of those $ I got double frequent flier miles from United — can you say Free First Class Trip to Japan!!!!!!

The WSU Carson College of Business delivers the same caliber of coursework and expert faculty that you'd get on campus, but from your home, office, favorite coffee shop, or an Air Force base 7,000 miles from home.

However, if you transfer those points to airline miles, you can get more than $ 700 out of the introductory bonus.