Sentences with phrase «hundreds of yards of»

To shoot some beautifully maintained tropical gardens, head to Treasure Island Park and for hundreds of yards of pristine white sands and tide pools, make the journey to 1000 Steps Beach.

The cool thing about car pushing is that there are literally hundreds of yards of empty space around somewhere near you, so all you have to do is put it in neutral, drop your head down, arms straight, get low and push with all you've got for 10 - 30 seconds.

Soon hundreds of yards of carpet and Ripple Rug designs cluttered Ruckel's home.

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.

Of course, ideal is if you can keep your truck on - site even if it means packing it up and moving it a few hundred yards.

I sailed in close, off shore by just a couple of hundred yards.

In four weeks the workers leveled hundreds of acres and moved some 3 million cubic yards of dirt — enough to fill three football stadiums.

I've got a hundred dollars» worth of ads in the newspaper; if I'm out in the salvage yard and the phone is ringing, I'm out.

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.

As he waits for the finals of the one - hundred - yard dash, he tells his friend that he is scared: «Ten lonely seconds to justify my existence.»

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.

You need to get off your couch, brush the potato chips off your chest, lay off beating your wife for 5 minutes, and try getting at least a hundred yards or more outside the front door of your trailer and see a bit of the world.

It also has plenty of churches — at least four were built within a few hundred yards of each other, thanks to the generosity of the developer who built Muswell Hill in the late 19th century.

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.

It's a striking juxtaposition: cattle munching on grass in a pasture, state - of - the - art food production underway in the buildings a couple - hundred yards over.

Remember, though, one can have hundreds of hens and but a single rooster, so whether they hatch their own or buy chicks, for every hen in the yard, there is a baby rooster that lost his life.

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.

At that moment New York withered under a blast of 13 ° temperature, Chicago suffered under a 6 ° reading and it was 15 ° - below in International Falls, Minn. and Lebanon, N.H.. On the lake beyond Tropical's tote board white swans and sea gulls cruised about or beat the air and sailed a few hundred yards and sidled in for another freeload of tender shoots.

The boat, now about a hundred yards offshore, had six inches of water in the bilge, which became seven, then eight, and she sailed a little sluggishly, I thought.

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.

At 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 25, a car and a pickup truck rolled to a stop at mile marker 417 on Highway 287, a few hundred yards south of Tie Siding.

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.

After a few hundred yards he reached the Bradfield Farms subdivision, a standard - issue sweep of suburbia 15 miles northeast of downtown Charlotte.

he averaged over 4YPC, had over a 1,000 yards rushing with no passing threat to take pressure of the run game and he had a few hundred more yards receiving.

Known for placing pinpoint shots to the backs of players» heads in training while they were having a wee against the wall two hundred yards away.

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

Other reinforcements have been made by the Park District at Lawrence Avenue, where a berm, a mound of earth several hundred yards long, has raised the level of the shore by several feet.

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.

I want the mayor to support an expansion of the London Citizens scheme to have a «safe haven» every hundred yards on every high street in the capital that will give young Londoners a sanctuary if they are threatened.

«Through huge efforts and major investments hundreds of miles of rivers and canals running through our towns and cities are now cleaner than in living memory and fish stocks are thriving right in your back yard!

The protests were sparked on Friday when hundreds of detainees at Harmondsworth detention centre staged a sit down demonstration in the court yard.

I had a terrible cold, and the BBC was beginning to worry about all these stories saying how they were spending too much money, so we weren't staying in the Grand, we were in the Old Ship a few hundred yards down, which of course saved us.

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.

Signs sprouted in hundreds of yards that read «No Monster Power Lines» and elected officials have called on the governor to reconsider the lines, which would be taller and wider than the current route, or create a new route entirely in some places.

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.

We found some of her personal treasures under hundreds of pounds of debris in her yard — tiny platinum religious charms that were swept away when her home flooded.

Tiger Woods probably was not born being able to hit a ball 250 yards in a straight line, but hundreds of buckets of balls later, he developed such a skill.

The scientists and volunteers were excavating a site that produced parts of several immature sauropods when Dana Biasatti, then a student at UT - D, «stretched her legs» and came upon the remarkable remains of an adult titanosaur a few hundred yards away.

A cubic yard of air contains hundreds of thousands of microscopic specks, but only about one in a million possesses the exact molecular geometry that will organize water molecules on its surface to spawn an ice crystal.

Soon after, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi accidentally discovered that grounded antennas could send signals more than a mile instead of a few hundred yards.

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.

We rendezvoused at the 77th Street entrance to the museum, just a couple of hundred yards west of the park and then took off on our walk.