Sentences with phrase «hundreds of yards from»

Rip currents occur year - round and can carry swimmers hundreds of yards from shore.

Pilings that held weekend camps surrounded by thick marshes a decade ago stand in open water, hundreds of yards from the nearest land — mute testimony to a vanishing culture.

Pepperweed seeds are transported with the tides, and can sprout hundreds of yards from their source.

Not exact matches

A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the munition landed a few hundred yards from coalition forces and failed to explode.

Perhaps the old rug you plan to toss isn't worth $ 150,000, like the rare tribal antique that a woman rescued from a trash bin, but taking the time to plan a yard sale, visit an appraiser, or sell your stuff online may bring you hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Two hundred yards from Jaffa Gate and 30 minutes later, the procession came at last to the great wooden door of the Jerusalem patriarchate where Diodoros awaited his guest.

He took along his camera for the occasion and had taken pictures of the children just a few hundred yards from the house when they heard the air raid sirens begin to sound.

A few hundred yards from the house at Tyniecka 10, stands the Royal Castle of Wawel» a much less ordinary looking place.

Archaeologists have uncovered the Essene Gate of the City, and it is only a few hundred yards from the upper room.

Along six blocks of Old Town Front Street, hundreds of handmade quilts made with thousands of yards of patch - worked fabric hang from banisters and along storefronts.

I ate at Red's in Wiscasset and Harraseeket in Freeport (cooked fresh off the pier, as basic as it gets), at the Lobster Shack in Cape Elizabeth (dollop of mayo, dusting of paprika), and at J's Oyster and DiMillo's in Portland (lightly mayoed, buttered and grilled bun, a crunchy leaf of lettuce), watching the boats a hundred yards down the pier from our perch at the bar as they delivered the lobster that was then put in our rolls.

Austin's shaggy blond locks and unconventional watercraft immediately drew the suspicion of Moroccan authorities, who were waiting on shore to arrest him; luckily for him a Spanish patrol helicopter turned him back a few hundred yards from his goal.

I've seen it go from a flat calm to force seven in 15 minutes — the kind of thing that can beat a swimmer a hundred yards from the beach.

It also doesn't say squat about the literally hundreds of other things you could worry about (like kids with allergies and asthma getting their hands on certain foods, the host taking the kids in a car without a car seat, a backyard trampoline, alcohol / drugs left around the house, playing in the front yard abutting a very busy street, etc. etc. etc.) It's just meant to talk about your child's preparedness for being away from mom and dad.

Miss Cash and her husband even live in Notting Hill, the West London spiritual home of the new - look Conservative Party, only a few hundred yards from the town house of George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor.

The pollution was traced to the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics plant in the village of Hoosick Falls, a few hundred yards from the village's public wells and water treatment plant.

Its own water tests, done as a result of Hickey's discovery, included results that showed levels of PFOA at 18,000 ppt in the groundwater under its McCaffrey Street plant — several hundred yards from the village's well fields.

For a broader gauge of tourist traffic in this area, the researchers implanted battery - powered counters just outside the wilderness boundary, a few hundred yards from the campground.

A few hundred yards from the cliffs, piles of crumbled stone and conch shells a few feet high are evidence of altars the seafarers built north of the harbor entrance.

Digging just a few hundred yards away on the main mound of what today is called Tell Brak, the archaeologists recently uncovered large buildings and extensive workshops from the same period — around 3800 B.C. — as well as imported material and fancy tableware.

These are so - called short - baseline experiments with detectors just hundreds of yards away from the neutrino source, rather than hundreds of miles away.

On that first trip, on an outcrop a few hundred yards from the mouth of Strathcona Fiord, he immediately picked up three bones lying on the surface.

«Let's take a picture,» Asmin «Oz» Pathare of the Planetary Science Institute says into his walkie - talkie, a hundred yards away from us.

When an insect emits its unique sexual attractant, potential suitors can come a-courting from hundreds of yards away.

Hundreds of yards below the seafloor, microbes called archaea produce methane from hydrogen and carbon extracted from organic sediments.

We host weekly Speed Dating events in Clapham on Thursday night at the Jam Tree located just a few hundred yards from Clapham Common tube station at the heart of Clapham Old Town.

This cloud doesn't serve simply as a visual «smoke screen» that allows the octopus to escape unnoticed; it also interferes with predators» sense of smell — such as sharks, which can sniff small droplets of blood from hundreds of yards away.

On a warm night in October, Elon Musk walked out onto a stage just a few hundred yards from his Space X rocket factory to face a cheering crowd of enthusiasts who had been invited to see the unveiling of his latest, greatest thing.

Dozens of griffon vultures are circling overhead and then soaring to a feeding spot on a steep drop a hundred yards from the road.

As we go through Bray Hill at just 30mph it seems to take an eternity to drive from the compression where the slide started to where the last of the skid - marks ends, hundreds of yards later.

Sometimes claims like that make you wonder, but in this case the sound backs up the claim; the SVR Range Rover Sport emits a harder edged bark pretty much everywhere in the rev range, but never more so than under full throttle at over 3700rpm, with its baffles opened wide so that it can be heard from many hundreds of yards away.

Saddle Rock reared out of the water only two hundred yards southeast of the main island, and from certain angles it looked exactly like a dorsal fin.

He talks of the plagues of spiders, snakes and grasshoppers (aka locusts) that exploded, how people tethered themselves with rope just to walk a few hundred yards from their front door, and how the children coughed themselves to death with «dust pneumonia».

The window frames were empty now; it was not a stretch to imagine prisoners, a hundred yards away in their cages, catching some of the terrible sounds that issued from these huts.

Just a few hundred yards from the beach or some of Benidorm's famous nightlife, this complex gets you to the heart of the Costa Blanca without stretching your holiday finances.

Schools of dozens of fish can be seen pushing water like bonefish from hundreds of yards distance.

Location was simply superb just a couple of hundred yards from the castle.

This place was too small for SMERSH headquarters, but what else do you call a walled waterfront compound that consists of a main house full of arched doorways, massive beams and indoor - and - outdoor fireplaces, a guesthouse, multiple cocktail decks, acres of riotous tropical gardens and a couple hundred yards of rock paths and stairs winding from the dock up to the mountain paths.

It's just a few hundred yards from Piccadilly (but far enough back to be away from the traffic noise) so it's easy walking distance to a lot of major London attractions (Green Park, The Ritz, Piccadilly Circus, Bond St etc....)

Placencia Caye is just only a few hundred yards offshore from Placencia Village, yet offers the security, exclusiveness and «cool» factor of living on a private island community.

The Robert Von Hagge designed 18 - hole championship golf course is among the lush foliage of the Yucatan Peninsula and only a few hundred yards away from the crystal - clear, turquoise ocean, and the fine white sands of the Mexican Caribbean Sea.

Is blessed with a mix of pointbreaks, jetty waves and beach breaks ranging from playful sand points throwing up chest high runners that peel for hundreds of yards, to mean, sand - sucking tubes that provide world class barrels.

Kalani Hawaii Private Lodging is located in a quiet area in front of «Rocky Point», a mere hundred yards from the beach and located in between... Read more world famous Sunset Beach and Banzai Pipeline, known for the International surfing championships during the months of October through March, with incredibly high surf and explosive ocean vistas.

Three hundred yards from the beach and Manuel Antonio National Park, the Hotel Costa Verde features two cliffside pools with sundecks and spacious rooms and balconies, all offering a bird's - eye view of the Park's coastline plus rainforest canopy vistas dotted with native birds and monkeys.

The last couple of hundred yards of track from the road is unmade.

Placencia Caye is truly just a few hundred yards away from the village yet offers the security, exclusiveness and cool factor of living on a private island community.

North Side The North Wall, which runs parallel to the north shore, plunges dramatically from around 40ft down many thousands of feet, just a hundred yards or so from shore.

Enemy design is more diverse than ever; long - haired skeletal spider people sucked my face off, fire witches reduced me to ashes from a hundred yards off, and the icy quadrupedal Irithyll knights chopped me up into a big bowl of frosted flakes.

The centerpiece is a used upright piano with hundreds of metal keys (mostly used and lost) attached to its form, housed within a historic candy shop that was rescued from demolition by a local wood salvage yard.

In the beautiful rolling hills of central New York and just several hundred yards from the Golden Artist Colors manufacturing facility, a 19th century barn has been transformed into a 21st century artist residency, with large studio spaces and private residency apartments.