Sentences with phrase «hundred feet»

The Roof Gardens in Kensington One hundred feet above the bustling London streets is this extraordinary urban oasis, complete with fab panoramic views of the city and resident flamingos.

Last month, Mr. Sieb appraised a home that turned out to be several hundred feet smaller than what the paperwork on the house claimed.

The much smaller Winwood Mall, located a few hundred feet to the west, predated it by several years.

It'd crashed just a few hundred feet into my run and the preceding half mile of tracking was lost.

The range is impressive, and the Gear Live remained connected to my charging Samsung Galaxy S4 through walls and doors, sometimes up to several hundred feet away.

Its numbers jive with the other popular wearables we tested it against, give or take a few steps, and the distance logged in the Huawei app corresponds to Google Maps data within a couple hundred feet.

That means the X only covers a few hundred feet in its 0 - 60 run.

If all the salt were removed from the oceans and deposited on land the resulting mass of salt would cover all available land on Earth to a depth of approximately 500 hundred feet.

Heavy snow and fog can obscure a lidar's lasers, and its accuracy decreases with range, but for anything from a few feet to a few hundred feet, it's an invaluable imaging tool and one that is found on practically every self - driving car.

For instance, they pass right through some stuff, and because of the physics involved, radar can be tricky to use at lengths below a hundred feet or so.

The lidar unit, if operating correctly, should have been able to make out the person in question, if they were not totally obscured, while they were still more than a hundred feet away, and passed on their presence to the «brain» that collates the imagery.

Clearly, the building management had strong contingency plans, because an orderly evacuation of a building on fire five hundred feet off the ground with flames up to 150 feet tall is certainly a tall order.

There's one major thing in Plano that is dividing neighborhoods, and can change in just a few hundred feet.

The public land around the art goes for many miles in every direction, although a wildlife fence runs along the highway a few hundred feet from it, no fence encircles it, if they have authority were would their domain end?

For now, Boucher has been ordered by the court to stay at least 1,000 feet away from Paul and his family at all times unless he is in his own home, which is a few hundred feet away from Paul's.

The top several hundred feet of the ocean does not contain the majority of the heat.

We get out and scramble a couple hundred feet up a limestone outcropping sprinkled with colorful little barrel cacti to survey the entire Ivanpah Valley.

Submarines hide under thermoclines a couple of hundred feet down... where did they come from?

At various sites along the Orin Line, large machines removed a hundred feet of overburden to begin an invasion of the planet unprecedented in scale.

This will temporarily raise the level of the ocean, but not more than a few hundred feet (the search area, taking into account the latest info, has quadrupled in size) and eventually the ocean bed will dry and we shall be able to see the remains of MH 370.

The lead paper in last week's issue of Science, by Aradhna Tripati et al, demonstrated that it had been 15 million years since carbon concentrations were this high — and that when it happened last the seas rose a hundred feet above their current level.

To design the study, DeJong and others drilled seventy boreholes, many up to a hundred feet deep, in and around the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, near Washington, on the Chesapeake's eastern shore.

The heating system is very impressive: a pile of straw and manure with six hundred feet of pipe in it.

For the study DeJong and his team drilled seventy boreholes up to a hundred feet deep on the Chesapeake's eastern shore.

Remember we are talking about several hundred feet of ocean rise.

Heck, you can get big changes in temperature over just a few hundred feet, if the elevation change is big enough.

The researchers drilled into sand and found pockets of hydrate up to a hundred feet thick at two sites off Texas and Louisiana, known as Walker Ridge and Green Canyon.

The raw temperture data is filled with examples of measurements as close as a few hundred feet showing temperatures varying 10deg C.

«For decades, wind turbines have required cranes and huge towers to lift a few hundred feet off the ground where winds can be slow and gusty,» explained Ben Glass, Chief Executive Officer of Altaeros, a company led by alumni of Harvard and MIT.

Pavillion's aquifer sits several hundred feet above the gas cache, far closer than aquifers atop other gas fields.

Another turbine can be put a few hundred feet downstream so that MORE energy can be captured.

I've never noticed this around dawn — any difference the temperature several hundred feet from the house is imperceptible to me (granted, I'm not a digital thermometer) from that adjacent to the house.

Later, McDonough and I stand on the green roof in San Bruno, and although we are only a few hundred feet from a freeway, the rolling vegetation up here gives the illusion of being in the Irish countryside.

My casual observation is that flight line are much colder in winter and much warmer in summer than even just a couple of hundred feet off the edges.

When the sun heats the ground, it is possible to heat the air near the ground enough that it becomes lighter than the air a few hundred feet above the ground.

Even inexpensive equipment can pick up such emissions at a few hundred feet (the apartment or house next door, the van parked down the street).

«What I don't get,» said the officer, «is how you lose ya cufflinks a hundred feet in front of where ya car is: a person usually stops his car past the place he loses somethin', not a hundred feet before he gits to the place.»

At our small - scale Inn Serendipity, created from a four - square farmhouse on five and half acres, our guests can relax, savor a local breakfast with most of the organic ingredients harvested from a hundred feet from our back door and drive away knowing that their carbon dioxide emissions were carbon off - set through our participation in the non-profit Trees for the Future Trees for Travel program.

When adiabatically heated air reaches the ground we get foehn storms, and when it hovers a few hundred feet above the ground we get heat waves.

One meter of sea - level rise might not sound like much, but in many areas it would bring the sea inland a hundred meters or more (a few hundred feet), and even farther if storm - driven surges grew stronger.

Just a few hundred feet away from the Crawford plant is the vibrant and diverse community of Little Village, a small but densely populated neighborhood of some 100,000 residents, mostly Latino families and children.

When the next very big earthquake hits, the northwest edge of the continent, from California to Canada and the continental shelf to the Cascades, will drop by as much as six feet and rebound thirty to a hundred feet to the west — losing, within minutes, all the elevation and compression it has gained over centuries.

Who wants a city where the nearest eyes on the street are a hundred feet up?

The passage between the Arctic and the North Atlantic is broader, but across its bottom, between Norway and Greenland, extends a shallow sill, less than three hundred feet deep in most places.

I conclude that I should not buy land within a few hundred feet of sea level.

Yonge Street was Toronto's main street and it was a hundred feet away from it, with no presence on it.

If the ocean rises a couple of hundred feet, I might even have waterfront property.

... Researchers estimate the melt pond in the picture was just over 2 feet deep and a few hundred feet wide, which is not unusual for an Arctic ice floe in late July.

A portable pump and hose works if Retreat and Shed are within a few hundred feet.

At least daily traces of sound velocity from operating depths (a few hundred feet) to periscope depth were submitted.