Sentences with phrase «many hundreds of yards»

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

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

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.

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

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

The first video shows an attacker hundreds of yards away sending infrared signals to a camera.

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.

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.

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.

Hundreds of yards el chapo and his lieutenant crawled through here, you can't even crouch, three feet high, extremely claustrophobic.

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.

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.

(No mean feat of engineering, this — reclamation projects have pushed the shoreline hundreds of yards away.)

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

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.

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

If you like right hand sand - bottomed points that peel for hundreds of yards this area is for you.

If you like right hand points that peel for hundreds of yards, then Salina Cruz is one of the best spots on Earth to for you.

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.

The wave can peel along perfectly for hundreds of yards, leaving a grin on the face of any surfer.

The Maroma Marina has nearly everything — deep - sea fishing boats and scuba excursions that take you to the Meso America Barrier Reef, just hundreds of yards off shore.

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.

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.