Sentences with phrase «mile distance at»

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That's handy to know if you suddenly feel like your legs are going to fall off at mile 18 of a marathon, but it's a truth that can have a huge impact even if long - distance running really isn't your thing.

The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.2 million miles (2 million kilometers) from Titan.

If it had been fired at a normal angle, analysts say, it could have flown much farther — estimates vary between 2,500 and 4,350 miles, the upper number putting Alaska and possibly Hawaii within striking distance.

Ethiopian distance star Dibaba owns five world records after breaking the 26 - year - old indoor - mile record by four seconds in February 2016 at the IAAF World Indoor Tour.

«If you can move people from city to city at 1,200 (745 miles per hour) to 1,300 kilometers per hour, you have a system that can reshape society,» he explained, suggesting that as distances shrink, economic productivity could increase as traffic disappears.

The team has yet to decide a final route, but they are looking at areas where many people fly over short distances or drive several hundred miles to their destination.

Your new workplace must be at least 50 miles farther away from your old home compared with the distance between your old job and old dwelling.

Two years of work at a university in western Canada, where I studied with Wittgensteinian defenders of «ordinary language» as well as with Trotskyites and non-Marxist socialists, provided the necessary distance in terms of both ideologies and miles.

On December 23, using a high - resolution lens, the three astronauts showed television viewers how the earth looks at a distance of 212,173 miles.

If we now consider the number of the stars (15,000 x 106 visible to the optical telescope alone) you will understand how it is possible to say, cosmically speaking, that we are enveloped in a sort of monstrous gas formed of molecules as heavy as the Sun moving at distances from each other so great that they have to be reckoned in light - years (bearing in mind that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and that we are only 8 light - minutes distant from the sun)-- a gas made of stars!

Sometimes you catch sight of a turn leading off into the distance, a dirt track or a county road at right angles to the highway you're on, as you drive along those straight, miles - long lines you find only in the West.

The group that met Paul at the Forum of Appius had come a distance of forty - three miles; the second group, waiting at the Three Taverns for him, had come thirty - three miles.

The UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, with Jerry Richey running a 3:59.7 anchor mile, set an American indoor record of 9:39.7 for the distance medley relay at the University of Delaware Invitational.

Not since 1920 had any horse been able to carry over 130 successfully in a race at a distance greater than a mile and a half.

She finished the three miles and was proud of herself, so she looked for a 10K to run because her father loved that distance, and she wanted to honor him after his death from an unexpected heart attack at 49.

The Woodward, run for only the 10th time last week, is an important race for us because for the first time each fall it brings together — or tries to — the best older horses and top 3 - year - olds on a weight - for - age basis at the Kentucky Derby distance of a mile and a quarter.

Ǽ Run: 2 miles for time OR 20 minutes for distance (Complete the latter if you can not currently run two miles at or under 20 minutes.)

Within shouting distance of the Wisconsin capitol dome in downtown Madison, sleek Skeeter Class iceboats whip at mile - a-minute speeds around a diamond - shaped course in one of America's oldest and most venerated winter sports.

Pace has skyrocketed recently (meaning a lot more miles traveled per minute, leading to more total distance per minute and also higher average speed so less time resting those legs at slow speed) and also defenses now have to be everywhere (before defense wasn't as tiring as it's now because every player didn't need to cover as much ground as they do now).

TRACK & FIELD — KANSAS UNIVERSITY»S relay teams set national indoor records of 9:48.8 in the distance medley and 7:29.2 in the two - mile at the Kansas State Relays, but the school lost the university division team title by one point to Oklahoma State in Manhattan, Kans..

Meanwhile, as Owner Woodward and Trainer Fitzsimmons led their 3 - year - old champion back East for a fall season of tests at long distances (up to two miles) against older horses, the handsome Swaps was being headed for rest and, if necessary, an operation on his sore foot back home in California.

I run on a treadmill (I switched to distance at week 3 because I'm too slow to run 5k in 20 - 30 minutes) so that I could tell myself, «another quarter mile and you can walk.

The state's proposed expressway would start at its present terminus at Lake - Cook Road near Buffalo Grove and run north through central Lake County to a point just south of Grayslake, then east along Illinois Highway 120 to the Tri-State Tollway near Waukegan, a distance of about 19 miles.

During Bicycle Sundays, the parkway is open exclusively for bicyclists, in - line skaters, scooters, walkers and joggers from Exit 22 at the Westchester County Center to Exit 4 at Scarsdale Road in Yonkers, a round - trip distance of 13 miles.

Department of Energy studies indicate that if such a facility was set on fire, it would be hot enough to melt steel at distances of 1200 feet, or result in second - degree burns on exposed skin a mile away.

The Pentagon's mad scientists at DARPA were hard at work building hypersonic gliders and flying cars in 2010, but the deadly invention 80beats readers loved was the sniper rifle that offered an accurate shot across the distance of 12 football fields, even with winds up to 20 miles per hour.

The EVLA's receiving system will be sensitive enough to detect the weak radio transmission from a cell phone at the distance of Jupiter — half a billion miles away — at a projected cost of $ 94 million.

The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles).

(For comparison, Jupiter orbits at a distance of 480 million miles and takes nearly 12 years to complete one circuit.)

MAY 1910 AIR RACES — «Louis Paulhan, the most distinguished aviator of them all, has soared nearly a mile into the air, and finally has surpassed even that feat by flying from London to Manchester, covering a distance of 186 miles, with but one stop for fuel, at an average speed of over forty miles an hour.

Just imagine a crack that lasts 1/10, 000 of a second but can be picked up by hydrophones — and heard by other sperm whales — at a distance of 15 miles or more.

According to Stone, Voyager 1 reached the termination shock in December 2004, at a distance of 9 billion miles from Earth.

An international team of scientists have been pouring over data streaming back from the Venus Express since April 2006 when it began surveying Venus, which at its minimum distance is around 25 million miles (40 million kilometers) from Earth.

Voyager 2, pointing almost 90 degrees away from its twin, hit the shock in 2007 at a distance of just under 8 billion miles.

(For comparison, scorched Mercury circles the sun at an average distance of 36 million miles.)

The space station, orbiting less than 250 miles overhead (about the distance between Boston and Philadelphia) hardly qualifies as a space station at all.

In September 2013, at age 64, distance swimmer Diana Nyad achieved a goal she'd been chasing for more than 35 years: She swam from Cuba to Florida, 110 miles, without a shark cage to protect her.

At a distance of 415 million miles (668 million kilometers) from Earth, Jupiter offered spectacular views of its colorful, roiling atmosphere, the legendary Great Red Spot, and it smaller companion at farther southern latitudes dubbed «Red Spot Jr..&raquAt a distance of 415 million miles (668 million kilometers) from Earth, Jupiter offered spectacular views of its colorful, roiling atmosphere, the legendary Great Red Spot, and it smaller companion at farther southern latitudes dubbed «Red Spot Jr..&raquat farther southern latitudes dubbed «Red Spot Jr..»

Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, pioneering geologist G. K. Gilbert observed: «At a distance of twenty miles [from the fault] only an occasional chimney was overturned... and not all sleepers were wakened.»

At a distance of 94,512,036 miles, the sun appears 7 percent dimmer than it did in January, softening summer's heat.

Hiking for miles through trackless forests to deploy cameras at varying distances from communities, the study sought to understand which species are depleted by hunting and where.

Assuming that our 41,500 retailers are evenly sprinkled around wholesalers, we calculated the distance that the average magazine travels from wholesaler to retailer at about 70 miles.

(That's an angle, the team's literature explains, the width of a human hair seen at a distance of a quarter mile.)

Even at a distance of six miles, sailors could see patches of lava steaming along the mountainside.

More than eight hundred miles away, Thomas Stamford Raffles, the lieutenant - governor of Java, heard the blast at his residence and assumed it came from cannon firing in the distance.

The spacecraft's ion engines will bring it to a capture orbit around this 590 mile diameter dwarf planet on March 6th, 2015 — at a distance some 2.5 times further from the Sun than the Earth.

That's why astronomers reckon by light - years — the distance that light, racing at 186,282.4 miles per second, travels from one of your birthdays to the next.

Raffles, too, reported that even at a distance of eight hundred miles, «showers of ashes covered the houses, the streets, and the fields, to the depth of several inches; and amid this darkness explosions were heard at intervals, like the report of artillery or the noise of distant thunder.»

You are still walking at 3 miles an hour, but you are covering the distance much more quickly relative to somebody who isn't on the belt.

The giant plane could carry 70,000 pounds of thermonuclear ordnance over a distance of 8,800 miles at a speed of more than 500 miles an hour.