Sentences with phrase «larger than buses»

The giant looms (larger than buses) that created all the lace were imported from England as they were the best made in that era.

Not exact matches

Small businesses require more simplified solutions to BI than those required by large enterprises.

I myself bought my iPad almost solely for the purpose of spiritual blogging on the bus (which I am doing right now), and it has given me more time to think about these matters and to read a much larger diversity of views than I would otherwise.

Mom and I arrived earlier than most, and as the other kids arrived, they looked like ants trudging into the band room from the parking lot, emerging shortly after carrying their instruments to the front of the school where five large charter buses sat waiting.

School buses don't need seatbelts because the seats are designed to cocoon children larger than a typical 4 - 5 year old.

The Ed SPLOST renewal will fund the purchase of more than 150 school buses between 2018 - 22, as well as land acquisition in central Cherokee large enough for a high school campus in the area between Cherokee and Woodstock High Schools.

Good public transport connects communities supports businesses and strengthens the UK economy Go - Ahead is one of the UK's largest transport companies with more than a billion journeys made on our buses and trains each year Running our business sustainably is vital to our long term success for Customers Our People Investors Society

The largest of the Yutyrannus skeletons — found in China's Liaoning province in rocks of an era famed for its feathered dinosaurs — represents an adult that in life would have measured about 9 meters long, or slightly shorter than a school bus.

They possess a larger posterior hippocampus than London bus drivers.

The visuals conjured by Favreau and the cinematographer Bill Pope are consistently first - rate, from the intense action sequences — a stunning stampede of water buffalo, more than one life - or - death encounter with Shere Khan — to the moments of quieter beauty: a frog wiping a raindrop off its head; a regal simian cityscape; a recently shed snakeskin large enough to sheathe a school bus.

For a bus operator, there is no cargo more precious than a group of school children, so when Norwest Coaches was allocating buses for its private school run, they selected their largest and most luxurious vehicle, the Higer H9250 Midi Boss.

The agency proposed to require that truck tractors and large buses be equipped with ESC systems rather than RSC systems.

With more than 650 miles of subway track and the largest fleet of busses in North America, NYC's public - transit system is the easiest way to get around.

Time to explore Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, then return via the same scenic route rather than «the long way round» for larger buses.

But marine pollution analysts in Germany and Brussels said that such a large ship would probably burn at least 150 tonnes of fuel a day, and emit more sulphur than several million cars, more NO2 gas than all the traffic passing through a medium - sized town and more particulate emissions than thousands of London buses.

So the potential for hybrid diesel vehicles is great — hybrid trucks and buses offer even larger fuel savings than hybrid cars, and can pay for themselves in a few years.

Given their larger - than - average size, buses and vans tend to be less stable on the road and more prone to rolling over, leading to catastrophic injuries for the individuals inside.

These delivery trucks, buses, tractor trailers and cargo vans transport people, chemicals, and / or consumer products, which generally makes them larger and heavier than most vehicles.

Most responsible motorcycle drivers take many extra precautions to protect themselves from any involvement with larger motor vehicles including cars, trucks, buses, semis and more road hazards than can be listed.

Buses are large, hard to maneuver, and take longer to stop than cars.

Since buses are far larger than other vehicles on the road, injuries from bus accidents are often devastating.

Buses present a larger target than other vehicles, and they are more of a threat to public safety when they leave their lanes or go out of control.

Bear in mind that large trucks, buses and other big vehicles take longer to stop than smaller vehicles.

For example, a large luxury car costs more to repair or replace than a sub-compact; and, someone who commutes 30 miles each way is more likely to be in an accident than someone who rides the bus to work and drives only on weekends.

When Andre the Giant was a boy he had already grown so large that riding the school bus was uncomfortable; his father's friend, none other than Nobel prize winning playwright Samuel Beckett, chauffeured him back and forth in his pickup truck every day.

The gleaming glass marquee — which is large enough to park 500 London buses in — will act as the shelter for more than 100 exhibitions from the world's most celebrated landscapers, gardeners and florists.