Sentences with phrase «good at the miles»

A large miles / points balance isn't indicative of someone good at the miles / points hobby — knowing when to collect and how to redeem for maximum value, is.

Not exact matches

At 111 miles per hour, he'd better not be thinking about anything except his Buick.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

Robert Burgess, editor at Head for Points, talks about the most cost - effective way to use air miles and which airlines have the best schemes.

In its survey, WalletHub also singled out the Lufthansa credit card as the best for airline rewards, due to its signing bonus of 35,000 miles if you spend at least $ 1,000 in the first three months — a value of about $ 780 in airfare, according to WalletHub's calculations — as well as the lack of foreign transaction fees.

Surveys conducted of the 50 Best Workplaces for Recent Graduates found teams substantially more likely to say they can count on colleagues to cooperate, as well as a greater willingness to go the extra mile to do their jobs, compared to workers at peer companies.

The EHang 184's battery, which takes between two and four hours to charge, is good enough for a 23 - minute flight at a cheetah - like 62 miles per hour.

Stuck in that crowded boat, with miles of freezing water behind us and weeks of thirsty rowing ahead of us, it didn't feel very good at the time.

However, plans for building the first section of Hyperloop are alive and well for the supersonic train that can carry passengers at speeds up to 800 miles per hour.

Some travel credit cards have no bonus at all, but the best travel rewards cards offer bonuses of up to 100,000 miles or points, sometimes worth thousands of dollars in free travel.

So tell me my good fellow How someone is going to manage the equivalent of an 45 minute drive without a car or access to public transit (that would be about a 30 mile trip, so at least 10» ish hours walking for the average person or 3» ish hours on a bicycle if I recall base speeds correctly right)?

The fires, which incinerated at least 30 buildings in the core of Lac - Mégantic, a tourist town of 6,000 people about 150 miles east of Montreal, limited the work of accident investigators, as well as attempts to search for survivors and the remains of victims.

The meeting of temporary profitability targets may earn execs their bonuses and make for good headlines, but at some point, you aren't aren't just cutting fat — you're chopping into the muscle itself that you need to walk the next mile.

While miles can be redeemed at any SkyTeam member airline (including Delta), the benefits which make this card better than average are locked to AeroMexico Airlines.

In the spirit of Pope Francis, my wife and I attended the Good Friday service at St. Bernadette's of Cedartown, GA (only about 20 miles from where we live).

Hmm, so you're telling me that a «heat shield» that was made of «special plastic» (as NASA called it back in the day), which was nothing but epoxy smeared over a ss honey comb «protected» the astros barreling into the upper atmosphere at hypersonic 5 miles / sec, or well over 30 times the velocity of a jumbo - jet and thru temperatures *** as quoted by NASA *** that are «10 times hotter than the surface of the sun», and then they «braked» with only a parachute to a safe splashdown?

In a statement, his agent Jo Sarsby said: «At 5 pm local time (PNG) Mr Keith Copley, the Coordinating Director for New Tribe Mission in Papua New Guinea confirmed in writing that Benedict Allen was safe, well and healthy and is presently located at a remote airstrip 20 miles northwest of Porgera, Enga ProvincAt 5 pm local time (PNG) Mr Keith Copley, the Coordinating Director for New Tribe Mission in Papua New Guinea confirmed in writing that Benedict Allen was safe, well and healthy and is presently located at a remote airstrip 20 miles northwest of Porgera, Enga Provincat a remote airstrip 20 miles northwest of Porgera, Enga Province.

I was raised not to see people in their skin, but to see them in their hearts, well anyway as a baby and child we would go shopping at a store 12 miles away, and I always loved the «eleavator lady» she was so kind to me, she was like another grandma.

But I've since resolved that if this is the kind of relationship they want, I must be willing to walk the extra mile and do my best at maintaining it... always leaving the door open for something deeper, if and when they are ready for it.

But the Coens do their best to keep the puzzle and possibility open, as we later learn that the first cat Davis lost miraculously made its way from Greenwich Village back uptown to Washington Heights, and at one point Davis's eye fixes on a poster for Disney's INCREDIBLE JOURNEY, the one where pets find their way home across hundreds of miles of wilderness.

Two years of work at a university in western Canada, where I studied with Wittgensteinian defenders of «ordinary language» as well as with Trotskyites and non-Marxist socialists, provided the necessary distance in terms of both ideologies and miles.

I am so grateful — for all these opportunities, of course, but mostly for the kindness of other people: the reader who shoved a $ 50 Starbucks card into my pocket at a signing; the flight attendant who gently patted my arm; Dad's idea to make my favorite comfort food for dinner and Mom's faithful execution of pork loin, rice, and fried apples; Marvin and Brandon at Belk; Dan's shoulder; a call from my sister; readers who pile into minvans and drive many miles just to talk, friends who understood why, with all this good publicity, I would just need a good, long cry.

Dr Schurf of the University Law Faculty was equally worried when Luther visited him at his home at Kemburg eight miles from Wittenberg; he warned Luther that he had better not attack the Pope.

We knocked out about 3 miles and ran at a pretty good pace so I was happy about that!

The texture is just miles better than anything else out there in my opinion, and with the obstacle of cost removed (or at least reduced to the equivalent of every other GF flour out there,) there's no reason not to use it in practically everything.

Good thing at my new house I have fifteen stores in a 1 - mile radius so it isn't too inconvenient.

You may serve at this stage, or go the extra mile and top it with some well needed heaping of shredded cheese.

what sounds weird to me is waking up at 0630, checking the computer to find 106 messages, clicking immediately on theone from Smitten Kitchen, and at 0705 absolutely drooling over the idea of hitting the kitchen this minute and what time does the local co-op open and do they have the best dried chick peas or do I need to drive the 48 miles to the Hanover co-op to get the good ones.

Paul Greenberg, executive director of e-commerce industry organisation NORA, said on Monday that Australian retailers were getting better at the «end mile» and in an ideal world many would like to own the delivery service also to maintain total control from start to finish.

This pie looks so good, and I am so excited to make it tomorrow that I am not at all regretting the fact I drove 80 miles round - trip and paid fifteen bucks for two pounds of sour cherries.

That makes me feel a lot better that you only started with about a half mile at first.

No, I realized my dream baked ziti would probably not be ziti at all (I think other chunky pastas pick up sauce better), but a chunky, craggy deconstructed lasagna with all of the important parts played up — browned crunchy edges for miles, hearty chunks of sausage and thick green vegetables.

Deciding that it was best to avoid the conflict of the Civil War, the Avery family and the newly - wedded McIlhennys settled in at the Avery sugar plantation on Petit Anse Island, located 140 miles west of New Orleans.

For his annual Hot 10 list (see the 2016 list here), Andrew Knowlton dined at hundreds of restaurants, traveled thousands of miles, and devoured something like a million calories — all in search of the country's best new places to eat.

When our Dr. BBQ, Ray Lampe, told me that he had been invited to compete at the Best of the Best Invitational Barbecue Cookoff, I checked my Frequent Flyer miles, found that I had enough, and booked my flight to Jacksonville for the eventual drive to Douglas, Georgia.

Hog Island Oyster Farm, Marshall, CA There's a Hog Oyster Bar in San Francisco, but it's 49 miles north of the city at the Hog Island oyster farm itself that the best bivalve eating is to be found.

Keep in mind, though, that we did have to play Maryland with their first string QB who was miles better than what they're trotting out on the field at QB today.

AKB's just never run out of excuses, it isn't «bad luck» when we are first on the injury ladder (by a country mile as well) EVERY SEASON, the last time i remember having a reasonable injury list was before diaby was injury prone, so whether it's down to his tactics, players diets or imcompetent staff, a 2.5 star manager wouldn't have taken more than 2 - 3 seasons to fix these problems, players join our club with amazingly good injury records (ozil) and become injry prone, players leave our club (fabregas) and are fit 2x as much as they were for us, SOMETHING IS WRONG AT ARSENAL

Arsenal were a million miles better at Chelsea this time than we were last season, which was admittedly a humiliation.

Yes he does not look like a «typical» centre back, he isn't big and strong and doesn't make crunching tackles etc. but he has been our best player by a country mile this season, so I feel he should carry on playing at CB until his levels dip.

Two world records fell at the Maple Leaf Games in Toronto when WYOMIA TYUS of Tennessee State won the 50 - yard dash in 5.6, [1/10] of a second under the old mark, and a Cleveland teen - ager, MADELINE MANNING, took the half - mile in 2:10.2, bettering the old record by [3/10] of a second.

A snowshoe will give you at best a five - mile - per - hour momentum.

Well, only once in the Chase era has a driver finished worse than sixth in the fall race at Loudon and gone on to win the championship (Johnson, in 2006, when he came in 39th at the 1.058 - mile oval).

John Landy, world mile record holder (3:58), gallantly stopped to aid fallen opponent but made up lost 30 yards in plenty of time to win Australian mile championship and Olympic berth with good 4:04.2 clocking at Melbourne.

So no Pellegrini, I don't agree with your statement, especially at Arsenal where a top four finish is the highest accolade we will ever receive under Wenger, a manager who has been in charge of the club for two decades and had the best chance by a mile of winning the league this season, but blew it (almost inevitably).

corzola is very good at giving us good control when we are up against teams that stand off our midfield, but if we up against a team that presses against us we need power to break through and press back, i saw pogba last night and he was miles above all the players on the pitch, when he came on just ran the whole midfield on his own, wenger should blow all of his next summers budget signing pogba, even if it takes everything we got the kid is the best young c / m in the world atm.

TRACK & FIELD — At a meet in New York City, SERGEI BUBKA of the Soviet Union set a world indoor best of 19» 6 1/4» in the pole vault, topping his own week - old mark by half an inch; MARITA KOCH of East Germany ran a world indoor best of 22.89 seconds in the 220; and JIM HEIRING bettered his own world indoor best in the two - mile walk with a 12:05.94.

How well the state of California has succeeded in preparing for her guests can be best summarized by statistics: 45 miles of cross-country runs, 14 miles of downhill trail and, of course, the great jump, 1,300 feet from top to bottom, are all ready and now being tested by advance contingents of skiers; three ski lifts have been constructed at a cost of $ 600,000; $ 50,000 has been spent to secure Squaw against the chance of avalanche; communications on the downhill courses require 80 miles of telephone wire; blasting the trails smooth took two tons of dynamite; 12 miles of construction road were built; it took 50 men and $ 250,000 to build the ski jump.

as for gk neither scz nor ospina are good wenger must sell both & should have gone for bernd leno at 23 he is miles ahead of scz / ospina

for example look at ramsey and ox for example if injury had let walcot play some games in the past few years as ramsey and ox i tell you he would be miles off better..