Sentences with phrase «many yards of»

Usually, she knew well more than they assumed, but she also took the opportunity to ask questions like, «And how many yards of soil would I need for a job like that?»

For instance, when a Twitter follower gets within, say, 100 yards of Martha's Pastries, he or she might receive a tweet or text message saying something like: «Looks like you're in the neighborhood.

IRA forces hijacked a helicopter and landed it in the exercise yard of the one of the jail's wings.

Complex Sale founder and author Rick Page described these last few yards of a sales cycle as the crucible; like its chemistry analog, the sales cycle crucible represents a confined, pressure - packed space where explosive reactions rooted in emotion, politics, risk, uncertainty, and fear can occur.

Ask yourself, as you get to the final few yards of your sales cycles, how often do certain questions or objections seem to surface?

Dostoevsky once wrote that a person could live in a square yard of space, as long as that person was free; but he couldn't possibly have meant at $ 589 a night???

Susan Gibbs turned her part - time hobby into a going business when she financed her yarn company, Juniper Moon Farm, with CSA investments: Members pay $ 175 per share in return for about 1,800 yards of yarn a year.

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

Summer With Cimorelli, an original five - episode scripted Web comedy on YouTube's AwesomenessTV channel, opens with the aftermath of a party — streamers litter the front yard of a suburban house, while a leftover llama chills by the pool.

Additionally, drivers must drop off their car within ten yards of the desired parking spot or its sensors will not detect it.

Those and four dozen more sordid facts of 9 - to - 5 life have been collected in 50 Simple Things Your Business Can Do to Save the Earth (EarthWorks Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1991), a slender paperback enumerating the number of trees, gallons of oil, cubic yards of ozone, and so on, that industry squanders.

He was buried in the yard of a nearby school because it was too dangerous to make the trip to a graveyard.

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

«There's still something out there,» he said, but «in the place of the old nature rears up a new «nature» of our own devising» — a construct where «each cubic yard of air, each square foot of soil is stamped indelibly with our crude imprint, our X.»

Having reached relatively steady state after better than half a decade of investment and construction, the French have popped in with a bid before the hard yards of balance sheet stabilisation can begin in earnest.

Six palettes of concrete were mixed and 135 cubic yards of mulch were shoveled, moved, and evenly distributed over the new play area.

BOEM has conveyed rights to millions of cubic yards of OCS sand for coastal restoration projects in multiple states.

The piles of hurricane debris that lined US - 1 for months were finally cleared last month, eliminating 2.5 million cubic yards of garbage that towered over the only road connecting the Keys to the Florida mainland.

Anytime a music festival manages to put Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Andrew Bird, the Decembrists and Kings of Leon on one afternoon of activities within 200 yards of one another, it's going to be a good time.

It's not a negation of truth or absolute truth, it's just a recognition that we might be as confused over things as our kin in the faith who chained up Bibles, burned the bones of reformers, tossed bombs into the basements of black churches and burned crosses on the front yards of black people, who ignore the plight of the homeless and the poor while we struggle to decide between the 36 and 72 inch plasma screen tv.

I once had a brand contact me, wanting to give us a million yards of waste.

Others revel in the mindfields or what can be better disseminated as being spiritual socialisms while they are ever stayed put in their ownliness brain - yards of spiritualized individualisms!

I too am sometimes amiss of rightfulness speculations yet I remain committed toward wanton trials and errors within a continuing undertaking of ever remaining malleable within my confined brain yards of the neuronal kinds.

On the very next day, the day after the Feast of the Tabernacles, as Jesus was teaching the people in the court yard of the Temple, the scribes and Pharisees brought to him a woman who had been caught in the act of committing adultery.

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 is true that Holloway did not write in a typically academic style, he did not have the time or the leisure to cross-reference his work with yards of footnotes, and it is true that he was «only» a parish priest but these factors alone surely do not justify the dismissal of his work.

«The Square,» those several square yards of pavement enclosed by a well - lit perimeter, remains vacant for the whole movie.

When I do decide to get in the pool for some exercise, I take in huge gulps of air after only 100 yards of swimming.

The question came at a town hall - style meeting in the yard of an Albuquerque home as part of Obama's public outreach to explain his policies and campaign for Democrats in the November congressional elections.

We don't need another bush like troglodyte within 100 yards of any political office.

Volunteers picking under rocks and through grass Friday filled garbage bags of bottles, coconut shells, figurines and yards of cloth, all of which the group says they will try to recycle.

Let's clean up our own back yard before worrying about the yards of others.

«Laney woke up from bed one night in May 2003 and took Joshua to the yard of her home in New Chapel Hill, Texas where she lifted a huge rock over her head and brought it down with all her strength against his skull, killing him.

In Surakarta and Jogjakarta on Java it starts on the sixth of the month with the opening of a fair which is announced by the playing of the holy gamelan in the yard of the mosque.

This mixture is pumped into a device which separates the manure's solids and liquids (ten cubic yards of manure solids are produced each day, which are hauled to another location, composted, then spread on fields as fertilizer)

Wow, these are gorgeous plums, I wish I have a yard of these plum trees, the most common ones here in the NW are apple trees & berries.

In the mostly paved, partially dirt back yard of our school, we spun out of control on a merry - go - round, climbed monkey bars, and played dodge ball.

Hatching of the eggs is accomplished in a separate 25,000 - square - foot building within 100 yards of the processing facility.

I see them in my yard all of the time, but rarely are they willing to hang around as close to a window as your little guys.

At Wagga Wagga, Monday a yarding of 6330 cattle included 2100 cows — again it was dry conditions that forced stock to market.

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.

«There he got out the luncheon - basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long - necked straw - covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.»

These container gardens are usually in the yard of the house, near the kitchen.

Michigan - South Carolina is the season's first game between Power 5 teams with neither team gaining 100 yards of offense in the first half.

I was given an enormous lead and lost all but a few yards of it as I floundered, spluttering, up and down the pool, but we won the relay and the meet and, returning to the Eagle office, I modestly recorded my achievement in the next - to - last paragraph of my story.

Six turnovers plagued SMU, as TCU reclaimed the Iron Skillet despite gaining just 156 yards of offense.

«All I know,» said Liquori, «is that I have to stay within 10 yards of him.

For edge rushers trying to turn the corner, that means they need to get around the offensive tackle as tightly as possible, around that seven to eight yards of depth to make sure that the quarterback can't step up away from their rush.

Florida State gained 566 yards of total offense, 444 of which were powered by the arm of redshirt freshman quarterback Jameis Winston.

Notre Dame did not hire a new offensive coordinator to produce 266 yards of total offense in primetime games, and it shouldn't allow teams led by true freshman quarterbacks to come into South Bend and leave with wins.