Sentences with phrase «land of a few miles»

Jews in Israel murderous revenge of Palestines over a so called strip of land of a few miles.

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If you're landing in a city that has clients or potential clients within a few miles of the convention center, why not set up a lunch or extend your stay by a day so you can catch up in person?

Now a Virginian, I live a few miles south of First Landing State Park and only a bit farther from Jamestown and historic Williamsburg.

Returning to school, which was admirable for birding, being small and in the country, with nothing but fields, woods, and streams for miles around, I began to learn the small land birds of eastern Pennsylvania and in a few years knew them fairly completely without any assistance from others except the Reed's guide.

In 2009, they purchased 15 acres of land for a new Islamic center a few miles to the east.

In very few places in the world will the beekeeper knows the provenance of the land for a 5 mile radius around the hives.

There are few beats that you won't see coming from a mile away in this Danish movie about a sergeant assigned a squad of teenage German POWs to dismantle the land mines that the Nazis buried on a beach.

Would you go to a few square miles of barren land with hundreds of thousands of other people fleeing conflict and wait to see what might be provided for you?

A mile of North Atlantic swills behind us, the same in front, and even though the Land Rover Defender 90 has tussled and bludgeoned its way across more than 216,000 miles during its 20 years, this might be its last few moments of life.

The land serves that purpose, and when we look across the Rio Grande, all we see is another few hundred miles of empty desert, the back door to Mexico's Cañon de Santa Elena national park.

That's about 4 miles below the budgeted range — possibly due to a few stoplight zero - to - 60 test runs I did just before testing — but balances out with the 3 - mile surplus of the previous trip to land me pretty spot - on with Kia's estimate.

The SUV is expected to land in 2019 as a 2020 model year vehicle, by which time it'll probably gain a few more horses and miles of pure - electric range thanks to advancements in tech between now and then.

Is Wyoming — the land of cattle, cowboys, tumbleweeds, and fewer than six people per square mile — her new home or a road to permanent obscurity?

One of northeastern Oklahoma's unique recreational treasures, the Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness encompasses over 300 acres of rugged park land located only a few miles from Tulsa's vibrant downtown.

Through San Juan de Gaztelugatxe and for a few hundred miles around it, the seam between water and land in northeastern Spain swells with the drama of the nearby Pyrenees to spectacular, photogenic heights.

It sits in a vast swathe of land only 20 miles north east of the capital and a few minutes» drive from the A1, encompassing formal and informal gardens complete with a maze, a children's farm and play area, endless acres of rolling countryside to lose yourself in and even its own 12th century church.

Some say it resembles Bora Bora, but insiders know that Lord Howe Island, located 373 miles off the Australian coast (under two hours from Sydney or Brisbane), is a land - and - sea playground for hikers, birders, divers and anyone who fancies a vacation in a tropical playground few folks have heard of.

The Switch is appealing to kids for having Mario's moustache alone, but for adult gamers, the system allows for more gaming than ever with the ability to conquer a couple of Grand Prix cups on Mario Kart or to explore a few miles worth of land in Zelda.

For example, Pielke and his colleagues in Colorado studied a region comprised of 12 land station sites, and concluded that climate conditions vary greatly from one site to another, even when the distance is a few miles.

Columbus landed in 1492 and did a population survey across a few million square miles of continent?

With mining interests staking an ever increasing number of claims within a few miles of our national parks — 2,901 since January 2003 — it has become more critical than ever for us to act and urge Congress to take steps to limit this unfettered, massive land grab.

Most of the Nation Less Than Three Feet Above Sea Level To put all of this in perspective, Tuvalu has a population of about 12,000 people (only Vatican City and Nauru have fewer people) and has a total land mass of just 10 square miles in size, spread out over several islands.

«One of the few times I thought I was in over my head,» is how Dean Turner, Project Director of The Crossing Land Education Trust described the epic that was getting a dilapidated train carriage relocated from a rural paddock about 450 km (280 miles) away onto his bush block, so it could be transformed into a bunkhouse for teenagers visiting for environmental education programs.