Sentences with phrase «in hundreds of yards»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Few Neolithic sites had been found before in Anatolia, and none that size — hundreds of yards long — had been found anywhere.

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.

They live their whole lives in the same area, generally within a few hundred yards of the spot where they were hatched.

For this reason, you may encounter hundreds of chiggers in one general area and not find any just a few yards away.

And then we'll throw in some bear foot sprints or some real real short high intensity things like you know, hundred yard short sprints, 20, 50 yards, things of that nature.

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.

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.

By the time we coasted the last few hundred yards to a truck stop on the eastern edge of the Coachella valley, my cortisol levels, like the poor torque converter's temperature, were in the red.

One hundred yards across the muddy compound, you find the customs office of Tanzania, and a process hidebound in red tape.

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.

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.

It was the dark of early morning; Lynne was in 55 - degree water as smooth as black ice, two hundred yards offshore, outside the wave break.

Carl Webster, the hot kid of the marshals service, is polite, respects his elders, and can shoot a man driving away in an Essex at four hundred yards.

For Tibetans, kora means walking around a sacred place absorbed in prayer, a kind of pilgrimage that can encompass hundreds of miles or only a few yards.

Did you know that the vast majority of Americans have lived within a few hundred yards of an illicit drug lab at some point in their lives?

Having done so, I weighed the odds of an infected mosquito flying it's maximum three hundred yard range in order to feast on my house - dogs when a.) there are no loose dogs in my country club neighborhood, and b.) my dogs are sold to people in upper class neighborhoods where there is no medically - deprived dog population.

Indeed, there were many tears shed in the 14 years of sharing her home, garden, and front yard with hundreds of cats.

If you find just one adult flea in your pets fur, you are really looking at numerous hidden pupae, larva and hundreds of eggs which reside on your pet, in your home's carpeting and yard.

Finally, seal this poop package in three hundred yards of duct tape.

I always explain to pet parents that for every one flea that they see on their pet, there are hundreds of fleas and immature stages in their house and yard.

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.

A few hundred yards further south, in about 12» of water, there are two long, narrow anchors that are lying side by side as if lashed together when they fell into the water.

With the look of the building and the hundred - year - old trees in the yard, the hotel has retained its old - world charm, but at the same time has merged it with contemporary architecture and designs.

Dana Point Harbor is a few hundred yards to the south side of the headland, where you can enjoy paddleboarding or kayaking in the sheltered waters.

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.

Own a private island, located just a few hundred yards off the coast of Placencia Village in Southern Belize.